Tim Dempsey, the former Chief of Police for Elkhorn, Nebraska, appeals the district court's denial of his First Amendment retaliation claims against the City of Omaha. The events giving rise to this action occurred in the context of Omaha's contested and protracted annexation of Elkhorn. Throughout and following this process, Omaha hired most Elkhorn employees who sought employment with Omaha.

While employed by the Chicago Park District, Cathleen Schandelmeier, a Caucasian, reported to her immediate supervisor that she had witnessed a possible incident of child abuse against an African-American child by his African-American aunt.

Technically, the Park District’s cross-1 appeal is unnecessary.

See Advisory Committee Note to Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(c)(1) (“The party in whose

United Air Lines recalled flight attendant Constance Hughes from furlough in October 2004. Physically unable to work, she commenced a medical leave. The collective bargaining agreement between United and the flight attendants’ union permits workers to retain seniority for three years of injury or illness. When that time was almost up, United told Hughes that she must report to duty. The airlineâ

Robert Righi was employed as a sales representative for SMC Corporation in the company’s Aurora, Illinois office. While at a mandatory training seminar in Indianapolis, he learned that his elderly mother was experiencing a medical emergency. He left the seminar and returned to Illinois to assess his mother’s situation. The next day, he e-mailed his supervisor to explain that he needed “the n

Appellant Rufus Odem brought claims for defamation, tortious interference with contract, conspiracy, negligence, and gross negligence against Deloitte & Touche, LLP, John Morgan, and Kathie Schwerdtfeger (collectively “Deloitte & Touche�). Odem’s claims arose out of a report prepared by Deloitte & Touche following a quality assessment review of the San Antonio Water System’s internal audi

Edward Smith appeals the order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania granting summary judgment against him on his due process claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and on his state law defamation and right of privacy claims. Smith also appeals the District Court’s judgment as a matter of law on his claim for punitive damages arising from a § 1983 retaliation claim

Cotton Valley Compression, L.L.C. (“Cotton Valley�) brought a breach‑of‑contract action against Reliant Energy Services, Inc. (“Reliant�) based on theories of actual and apparent agency by a third-party, Westfield Oil & Gas, Inc. (“Westfield�).[1] The jury found in favor of Cotton Valley on both theories of agency and rejected Reliant’s affirmative defense of quasi-estoppel. Th

Anonymous Plaintiffs-Appellants J, S, B, and V sued Joseph R. Francis and Mantra Films, Inc., MRA Holdings, LLC, and Aero Falcons, LLC—companies owned or controlled by Francis—for damages stemming from films the Defendants produced in which the Plaintiffs, while under the age of eighteen, exposed their breasts and engaged in sexually explicit acts. The Plaintiffs filed a motion to maintain the

Appearing pro se, as he did in the district court, Miloslav Muller appeals from the court’s order dismissing with prejudice his Title VII and § 1983 claims against the New Mexico Livestock Board (NMLB), and dismissing without prejudice his state law defamation claim. He also appeals the court’s order denying his motions to file first and second amended complaints. We have jurisdiction under 2

Arthur Fryer appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of his employer, Coil Tubing Services (CTS). After working for CTS less than two months, Fryer was diagnosed with Hepatitis C.1 Four months later, he informed CTS his condition had worsened. Fryer was put on leave with full pay and benefits for approximately three months. Less than three weeks after returning to work, Fryer injured his

In this First Amendment retaliation case, Richard Clairmont appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Defendant Joni Wilson, the Manager of Probation Services at the Seattle Municipal Court. Before filing suit, Clairmont was employed as a domestic violence counselor for Sound Mental Health, a private company that provides domestic violence prevention treatment programs to crimina

After he was forced out of his position as an Initial Appearance Hearing Officer for the Maricopa County Superior Court, Vernon Harris unsuccessfully sued the Superior Court and the other defendants for violations of, inter alia, his rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. Defendants then sought substantial attorneys fees and costs from Harris, and were awarded

James Haigh alleged claims against his former employer, Gelita USA, Inc. (“Gelita�), on the basis of age and disability discrimination and retaliation. The district court1 granted summary judgment in favor of Gelita on Haigh’s claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and his retaliation claim. The remaining claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) proceeded

A hospital appeals a temporary injunction permitting a doctor, for whom reappointment of privileges was denied, to continue to practice at the hospital during the pendency of the doctor’s civil suit against the hospital. The hospital argues the trial court erred in entering the injunction because it is immune from liability under section 395.0191, Florida Statutes (2009).1 We agree and reverse t

In this wrongful termination case, judgment was entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $1,237,086 in compensatory damages and an equal amount in punitive damages. Defendant filed a motion for a new trial and a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV), the latter with respect to punitive damages only. The trial court granted the new trial motion.

Plaintiff appealed from t

Miami-Dade County (“the County�) appeals the trial court’s order denying the County’s motion for directed verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (“the motion�), and final judgment on age discrimination and retaliation claims. We affirm.

Mansour Eghbal (“Eghbal�), a sixty-nine-year-old County employee, applied for a promotion four times, but the County did not p

Dr. Duane Bonds appeals district court orders dismissing some of her employment claims and granting summary judgment against her on the others. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.

I.

Bonds is an African-American female doctor who has worked during her medical career to fight "sickle cell disease and other medical disorders that severely impact

Maria Lucia Tayag ("Tayag") was terminated by her employer, Lahey Clinic Hospital, Inc. ("Lahey"), while taking an unapproved seven-week leave to accompany her husband, Rhomeo Tayag ("Rhomeo"), on a spiritual healing trip. The district court denied her claims against Lahey on summary judgment, including one under the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654 (2006), and she n

We previously issued an opinion in this case. Castle v. Appalachian Technical Coll., No.10-11546, slip op. (11th Cir. Dec. 21, 2010). However, the panel, on its own motion, has decided to vacate that opinion and substitute this one in its place in order to clarify the meaning of one sentence. The only change is to insert the word, “even,� at the start of the following sentence, in Part II: “

Benjamin Bloedorn, a Christian evangelical preacher, appeals from the denial of his motion for a preliminary injunction, which sought, on First Amendment grounds, to enjoin Georgia Southern University (“GSU� or the “University�) from enforcing its free speech policies regulating the access of outside, non-sponsored speakers to the university campus and the permitting scheme regulating the

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office (“BSO�) appeals from a judgment following a jury trial in which the jury found that BSO interfered with its employee Diane Spakes’s statutory right to request medical leave and fired her in retaliation for her protected leave request, in violation of the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA�), 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a)(1) and (a)(2) respectively. 1 The distric

The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of an employer and an employee-supervisor on the ground the one-year statute of limitations had run against a former employee’s claims of sexual harassment and retaliation. It is clear to us that there would be a triable issue of material fact whether the former employee was sexually harassed. But it is equally clear the statute of limitations ra

The only question before us in this appeal is whether Sherry DeTata’s lawsuit complaining of sex discrimination at the hands of her employer, Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc., was filed too late. Everyone agrees that she properly filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC�); the problem centers around what happened next. The EEOC dismissed DeTa

Dr. Christine Leitgen sued her former employer, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare (“the Hospital�), under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming as relevant here that it retaliated against her by forcing her to resign after she complained that its compensation scheme unlawfully underpaid physicians based on gender. The Hospital pools revenue received for childbirth deliveries and redist

Maria Sutherland sued Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in federal district court. Her allegations included maintenance of a hostile work environment based on sex discrimination and retaliation for reporting sex discrimination, both in violation of Title VII; violation of the Indiana Civil Rights Law; battery and confinement; intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress; constructive discharge;