Kevin Fischer sued his former employer, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), accusing it of firing him in retaliation for (1) a previous race discrimination lawsuit he brought against the company; and (2) filing several internal complaints. A jury returned a verdict in Fischer’s favor, awarding him back pay, compensatory damages, and punitive damages. UPS filed a post-trial motion challenging the

Will Singleton (“Singleton”), who was employed as a Registered Nurse by the appellees (collectively “Select”), appeals from a decision of the district court granting Select’s motion for summary judgment on Singleton’s claim of unlawful retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and its Kentucky state-law equivalent.1 Select alleges that it terminated Singleton for numerous and

American Airlines terminated Bruce Casanova’s employment as a baggage handler. He sued, contending that the airline had retaliated against him for claiming workers’ compensation benefits. Illinois deems such retaliation tortious. See 820 ILCS 305/4(h); Kelsay v. Motorola, Inc., 74 Ill. 2d 172, 384 N.E.2d 353 (1978). A jury returned a verdict of more than $1 million: $112,000 for lost wages, $2

The primary issue in this appeal deals with jurisdiction under the Right to Farm Act (Act), N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1 to -10.4, in the context of a private nuisance claim. Defendants Raymond L. Raub, III (Raub) and his wife Gail A. Raub own a 34 acre farm straddling Harmony and Lopatcong Townships in Warren County. In addition to that property, Raub also conducts farming operations on about 120 contigu

After his staff privileges at Franklin Medical Center (FMC) were summarily suspended, Dr. William Vranos, an orthopedic surgeon, commenced this action against FMC, Michael D. Skinner, R.N., who is the FMC president, and Kenneth Gaspard, R.N., FMC's director of surgical and material services. Vranos's complaint contains six counts: (I) defamation against Gaspard; (II) defamation against Skinner and

Plaintiffs are nineteen African-American current and former police officers with the City of Wichita Police Department. In 2006 they sued the department and Police Chief Norman Williams, claiming they were discriminated against because of their race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983. Only one of the plaintiffs, G

David Frevert filed suit against Ford Motor Company ("Ford") in Missouri state court alleging wrongful discharge under the Missouri common law public policy exception to the employment at-will doctrine. After Ford removed the case to federal court, it moved for summary judgment, arguing that Frevert did not qualify as a whistleblower under Missouri's public policy exception to the employment at-wi

Appellant Matthew Donald Thompson (Thompson) is a white police officer who has been employed by the City of Monrovia Police Department (Department) since 1997. In 2008, he sued the Department for harassment and hostile work environment arising from offensive remarks and behavior directed at an African American colleague, retaliation for Thompson‟s reports of the misconduct, and failure to invest

The Reporting by School Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Act), a whistle-blower act, (Ed. Code, §§ 44110- 44114),1 in section 44113, makes school officials liable in damages for interfering with the right of a school teacher to disclose evidence of improper governmental activities to an administrator or school board.

Plaintiff, Christina Conn, a second year probationar

Kristeen Klaas sued ValleyCare Medical System on a retaliation theory claiming that she was retaliated against for complaining about patient safety issues in the operating rooms at the ValleyCare hospital in Pleasanton, California where she had worked for 15 years. Klaas resigned from her job in distress in May of 2008 after she made numerous patient safety complaints. She claimed that she was no

The plaintiff, Mara Sabinson, appeals an order of the Superior Court (Vaughan, J.) granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, the Trustees of Dartmouth College. We affirm.

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The following facts appear in the record. Sabinson is a professor in the Dartmouth College Theater Department. She was hired as a full-time faculty member in 1985, and obtained tenure in 1991. In July 2

Plaintiff Althea Booker filed suit against her employer, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital), the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and certain individual defendants. A jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants on Booker's claims of retaliation under federal and state law, see 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a); Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 4(4),

A former baggage handler for American Airlines filed this diversity suit against the airline for retaliatory discharge in violation of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, 820 ILCS 305/4(h). The district court granted summary judgment for the airline, precipitating this appeal, which involves the applicability of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 802- 03 (1973), to a suit based

Tamika Jones filed suit against her employer, Res-Care, Inc., and another Res-Care employee, Shane McFall, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Jones alleged discrimination because of race and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jones also brought claims under state law for slander per se, negligent supervision and vicarious liability u

Plaintiff Howard Dean Gipson appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. with respect to Gipson’s claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act. For the reasons described below, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

A. Underlying Facts

Plaintiff Howard Dean Gipson was formerly employed as a plant maintenance worker for defendant

GRAHAM, District Judge. Three former at-will employees of the Paducah Area Transit Service (“PATS”) allege that they were terminated after having raised concerns about the safety of PATS vehicles. They allegedly voiced their concerns in two letters sent to the PATS board of directors, though the letters on their face did not mention any safety issues. The letters reported that the “atmosphe

Paula O'Donnell, a former employee of the Boston Globe Employees Credit Union ("the Credit Union"), appeals from the dismissal on summary judgment of her Massachusetts state law claims alleging tortious interference with contractual relations by her supervisor and others. On this appeal, the central issue concerns preemption of state law claims under Supreme Court precedent designed to protect th

We affirm in part and reverse in part in this contentious civil rights case brought by a family of plaintiffs, the Kennedys, against the Town of Billerica, Massachusetts, and numerous individual police officers. Before us are cross-appeals from jury verdicts and court rulings in the two trials in this bifurcated case.

Specifically, we hold that error in instructing the jury in the

Charlene K. Wisbey appeals the district court’s1 dismissal on summary judgment of her lawsuit alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213, and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.

I.

As this appeal is from a grant of summary judgment, we review the facts in the

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 First Amendment retaliation claim appeal, we (1) reevaluate the pleading standard requirement for § 1983 cases involving qualified immunity, (2) determine whether Earl Randall’s (“Randall”) complaint – alleging state conduct restricting his ability to run for public office – raises a claim for violation of his First Amendment rights, and (3) resolve whether Jew

Some people are impossible to please. No one can meet their standards and no matter how hard anyone tries, they find fault, criticize, and are unhappy with the result. They demand continuous perfection, which is more than any human being can deliver. The evidence in this Title VII case indicates that Heidi Verdezoto is one of those people. She is the Chief Financial Officer of two closely related,

Plaintiff-appellant Charles Vereecke, a high school English teacher at Milford High School (“Milford”), appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for defendants-appellees Michael Krystyniak, Michael Teasdale, and the Huron Valley School District on Vereecke’s claim that the defendants unlawfully retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment rights.

In Octo

Michael D. Cross sued Lawrence M. Small and on a civil rights violation claiming that he was fired in retaliated after he reported what he considered unacceptable behavior concerning a female co-worker at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility.

Cross joined the Garber staff as a volunteer in 2000 and was in

Appellant Michael Acosta was employed by appellee, the City of Austin, from June 2003 to May 2006. After his employment with the City ended, Acosta filed suit against the City. In his lawsuit, Acosta, who is of Hispanic descent, alleges that various employment-related actions taken by the City adverse to Acosta were committed in retaliation against him for his complaints that his pay was lower th

Shirley Edwards filed suit against her employer, A.H. Cornell and Son, Inc. (“A.H. Cornell”), and supervisors, Scott A. Cornell and Melissa J. Closterman, claiming that she was terminated in violation of Section 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) and state common law after complaining to management about alleged ERISA violations. The defendants filed a Rul