Bradley Cardew—a wheelchair-bound individual with quadriplegia—landed a short-term, highly accommodated summer internship with Lear Corporation thanks to his cousin, a vice president at Lear. But as James Agate once quipped,
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“Every good deed brings its own punishment.” This aphorism surely resonated with Cardew, though with a twist: hi

John Stroy filed suit against his employer, the Department of Veterans Affairs, alleging racial discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The district court dismissed Stroy’s retaliation claim for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and granted summary judgment in favor of the VA on Stroy’s discrimination claim. For the reasons below, we AFFIRM.
I.
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Philadelphia, PA - Bala Cynwyd, PA Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Federal Prison for Bribing Postal Workers to Deliver Marijuana

Tafari Riley, of Bala Cynwyd, was sentenced Julyt 20, 2018 to 87 months in federal prison for bribing two U.S. mail carriers to deliver packages containing marijuana to various locations in West Philadelphia.

From April through December 2016, Riley, 26

In this action under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 (2012), Donald Palmer (“Relator”) settled his claim with defendant C&D Technologies, Inc. (“C&D”), thereby entitling Relator to reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. Id. § 3730(d)(2).1 The parties, however, were unable to reach an agreement on attorneys’ fees. In contesting the fees, both parties adopted unproductive tactics and str

This case involves a group of landlords who object to the system of liens used by the City of Philadelphia to collect unpaid gas bills. The District Court certified a class and held that the City had violated the landlords’ rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The City filed this appeal, arguing that its procedures for collecting gas debts are constitutional. We agree w

Bennett worked for the City of Topeka (City). On May 19, 2015, he was assigned to work at Heartland Park in Topeka. There, he drove his Ford F-450 over a wooden pedestrian bridge and it collapsed. The back of Bennett's truck fell to the ground below the bridge and the front end of the truck stayed on the bridge.

After the accident, Bennett felt aching in his lower back as well as pain r

Kansas Star is one of four state-sponsored gaming enterprises in Kansas authorized under K.S.A. 74-8733 et seq., the Kansas Expanded Lottery Act (KELA), and is located in the south central gaming zone. In 2007 the Legislature passed KELA which divided the state into four gaming zones—northeast, south central, southwest, and southeast—and authorized the Kansas Lottery to operate a single gaming fac

Jesus Collar appeals the summary judgment in favor of his former employer, Abalux, Inc., and its owner, Juan Cabral, and against Collar’s complaint for unpaid overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act. See 29 U.S.C. § 207(a). The district court ruled that Collar’s employment in 2015 was not covered under the Act because Abalux had less than $500,000 in annual gross sales. See id. §

This is the third appeal that comes to us in this case, which arises out of Patrick
and Mary Lafferty’s purchase of a defective motor home from Geweke Auto & RV
Group (Geweke) with an installment loan funded by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A (Wells
Fargo).
In Lafferty v. Wells Fargo Bank (2013) 213 Cal.App.4th 545 (Lafferty I), this
court affirmed in part and reversed in part the actio

The State’s evidence at trial established the following facts. {¶ 4} In November 2012, Remy, who was then 24 years old, met his wife, Tamara; he moved in with her the following month. The two married in March 2013 and resided in the top half of a duplex in Springfield, Ohio. Tamara has three daughters from a prior relationship: D.C., J.C., and K.C. The girls were six, four, and almost three

On January 17, 2006, Zak was seriously injured when the car in which she was a passenger struck a semi tractor-trailer that had been wrecked approximately one hour earlier by Brown, a driver employed by Hunt. J.B. Hunt Transp., Inc. v. Guardianship of Zak, 58 N.E.3d 956 (Ind. Ct. App. 2016), trans. denied. On October 26, 2006, the Guardianship filed a complaint against the Appellants, alleg

Respondent Janet Hufnagel filed a workers’ compensation claim in 2015 for work
related aggravations to a low-back condition that resulted from an admitted work-related
injury in 2009. At all relevant times, Hufnagel worked at the same job, performing the
same duties, at the same physical location. But between the 2009 injury and the later
aggravations sustained in 2014 and 201

Delacy pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor, in violation of Iowa
Code section 728.12(1) (2015), and lascivious acts with a child, in violation of
section 709.8(1)(a), both class “C” felonies. On April 25, 2016, he was sentenced
to a term of imprisonment not to exceed ten years on each count, to be served
consecutively. The court stated on the record, “The defenda

Tulsa, OK - State of Oklahoma charged Christopher Matthew Montoya with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: DU2II, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DRUG - METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-402
Date of Offense: 01/31/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
MONTOYA, CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/14/2016. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: POSSESSION OF CONTROL

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Shelby Lou Acreman with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: EMB, EMBEZZLEMENT BY EMPLOYEE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1456
Date of Offense: 11/30/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
ACREMAN, SHELBY LOU Disposed: DEFERRED, 08/16/2016. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: EMBEZZLEMENT BY EMPLOYEE(EMB)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1456
Docket

Wyngarden, who was born in 1951, was employed as a juvenile court officer
(JCO) by the Iowa Judicial Branch.1 His immediate supervisor was Bruce Buttel
and Buttel’s supervisor was John Wauters. Wyngarden received an oral reprimand
in November 2007, which was not placed in his file. On October 9, 2008,
Wyngarden received a written reprimand based on Wauters’s determination

Lecia L. Shorter appeals the district court’s partial grant of summary judgment in favor of the County of Los Angeles, Leroy Baca, Jacqueline Ortiz, and Alejandra Avalos (the County or County Defendants) on her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 inadequate medical care claim, and the denial of Shorter’s motion for a new trial on her § 1983 claim based on her classification as mentally ill, her conditions of confine

This case is about the meal breaks that California law
requires an employer provide to employees after they have
worked a certain number of hours. The Plaintiff-Appellant,
Bernardina Rodriguez (“Plaintiff”), was for many years a
restaurant employee of the Defendant-Appellee, Taco Bell
Corp. (“Taco Bell”). During that time Taco Bell offered
thirty-minute meal breaks that wer

Tulsa, OK - State of Oklahoma charged Jerry Wayne Hamilton, a/k/a Jery Wayne Hamilton with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: DI6AM, DUI ALCOHOL - SECOND OFFENSE (MUNICIPAL ARREST), in violation of 47 O.S. 11-902 A 2
Date of Offense: 01/14/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
HAMILTON, JERRY WAYNE Disposed: CONVICTION, 10/04/2016. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: DUI ALCOHO

Tulsa, OK - State of Oklahoma charged David Calvin Loftis with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: MALINJ, MALICIOUS INJURY TO PROPERTY - $1000 OR MORE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1760 A 2
Date of Offense: 01/28/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Loftis, David Calvin Disposed: CONVICTION, 04/01/2016. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: MOLESTING A STANDING VEHICLE(OPER)
Viol

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Balinda Kay Diaz and Ryan Paul Franks with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ODO, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DRUG WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE - METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-401 A 1
Date of Offense: 01/21/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
DIAZ, BALINDA KAY Disposed: DEFERRED, 10/10/2016. Guilty Plea
Count as

Lacey Robinett appeals the district court’s 1 grant of judgment on the pleadings
to Shelby County Healthcare Corporation (“the Med”) and Avectus Healthcare
1The Honorable D.P. Marshall Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Arkansas.
Solutions, LLC. Robinett contends that the district court erroneously concluded that
the federal and Arkansas Medicaid laws

The federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(ERISA) requires administrators
of employee benefit plans to comply with the documents
that control the plans. 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1)(D). In the
case of life insurance policies, that means death benefits are
paid to the beneficiary designated in the policy, notwithstanding
equitable arguments or claims that others

Joshua Vasquez and Miguel Cardona are convicted child sex offenders who live in Chicago and are required to register as sex offenders and comply with state restrictions on where they may live. For example, a child sex offender may not knowingly live within 500 feet of
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a school, playground, or child-care center. 720 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/11-9.3(b-5), (b-10). A few years after Vas

Coleman beat her four-year-old son to death with an electric cord. She
pleaded guilty to the charge of serious bodily injury to a child.
The trial court held a sentencing hearing, at which the State introduced
Coleman’s pre-sentence investigation (PSI) report. The PSI report recounts the
following.
Around 6:00 p.m. on July 15, 2012, emergency medical services were
dis