Robert C. Cahaly, a self-described Republican political consultant, was arrested for alleged violations of South Carolina’s anti-robocall statute. After the charges were dismissed, Cahaly filed suit, challenging the statute on three First Amendment grounds: as an unlawful regulation of speech, as impermissibly compelling speech, and as unconstitutionally vague. Cahaly also sought damages from the

25 Plaintiff Dawn F. Littlejohn appeals from a judgment of the
26 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
27 (Sweet, J.) entered on February 28, 2014. Littlejohn alleged that,
28 while employed by the New York City Administration for
3
Children’s Services (“ACS”), 1 she was subjected to a hostile work
2 environment and disparate treatment based on

This case involves a dispute between an
employee and her former employer regarding unpaid wages. The
plaintiff, Mary Ellen Wessell, successfully sued Mink Brook
1 Robert C. Stone.
2
Associates, Inc. (Mink Brook), and owner Robert C. Stone under
the Wage Act for lost wages and retaliatory discharge after
Stone refused to issue her a paychec

This appeal concerns an employment dispute between Appellant, Jefferson County (the “County”), and Appellee, Ha Penny Nguyen (Nguyen), a former County employee. The County appeals from a Judgment rendered in favor of Nguyen, following a jury trial wherein the jury found that Nguyen was subjected to adverse employment actions, retaliation for protected speech, and a violation of her
2
due p

Appellee and cross-appellant Doreatha Walker sued her former employer, appellant and cross-appellee Neighborhood Centers Inc. (“Neighborhood Centers”), for its alleged retaliation against her for filing a workers’ compensation
2
claim.1 She also sued Neighborhood Centers under the Whistleblower Protection Act.2 Neighborhood Centers filed a plea to the jurisdiction asserting that it had gov

Tulsa, OK - The Tenth Circuit reverses summary judgment for defendant on Family Medical Leave Act claim

After suffering an injury, Paul Janczak took leave under the Family and Medical
Leave Act (“FMLA”). Immediately upon his return from FMLA leave, his employer,
Tulsa Winch, Inc. (“TWI”), terminated his employment. TWI claimed that it had decided
to terminate Janczak’s positio

Tulsa, OK - Debbra Ellis sued Premier Community Services, Inc., Van Benton and Rochelle Saunders on a fair labor standards act violation theory claiming:

1 Plaintiff was at all times pertinent to this action, employed by Defendants within
Tulsa County, Oklahoma Furthermore Plaintiff is domiciled and resides within Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
2. Defendant Premier Community Services, In

Tulsa, OK - Tyan Williams sued R&S Supply, Inc. on wrongful termination theory:

1. That the Defendant is a domestic corporation.
2. At all times material hereto the Defendant was doing business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
3. At all times material hereto the Plaintiff was an employee of the Defendant.
4. That the Plaintiff suffered a work related injury and reported the injury t

27 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of
28 New York (George B. Daniels, J.) dismissing Plaintiff‐Appellant Rory Dolan’s
29 complaint for failure to state a claim. Dolan alleged that defendants retaliated
30 against him for his actions as a member of the prison Inmate Liaison Committee
31 (“ILC”), in violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(

We draw the following facts, which we assume “to be true for purposes of 13  
our de novo review of the district court’s grant of defendants’ motion to dismiss,” 14  
from the plaintiff’s complaint. See Ricci v. Teamsters Union Local 456, 781 F.3d 25, 15  
26 (2d Cir. 2015). 16  
Dolan served as an ILC representative at Fishkill for two terms. On the ILC 17  
Dolan advocated “f

Plaintiff‐Appellant Natasha Davis brought claims of disability‐based
employment discrimination and retaliation against her former employer,
Defendant‐Appellee Bombardier Transportation Holdings (USA) Inc.
(“Bombardier”). The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New
York (Mauskopf, J.) granted Bombardier’s motion for summary judgment,
findin

Plaintiff Loredana Ranza appeals the district court’s dismissal of her complaint alleging sex and age discrimination in the workplace in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2, 2000e-3, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 623. Ranza brought claims in the District of Oregon against her former employer, Nike European Operati

The state of Arizona had a coyote problem: Not the fourlegged furry kind that occasionally abscond with pets, but the kind who smuggle undocumented aliens into the United States for a fee. As part of the effort to combat the proliferation of coyotes, between 2001 and 2006 Arizona officials executed over twenty warrants to seize thousands of wire transfers that they claimed were highly likely to

Jimmy Hinkle sued Rick White, an
investigator with the Illinois State Police, and White’s supervisor,
Thomas Oliverio, alleging that they violated his due
process rights by spreading rumors that he was an arsonist and
a child molester. The district court concluded that Hinkle had
not established a protected liberty interest and granted the
defendants summary judgment. We af

Plaintiff-Appellant Reza Yazdian is a first-generation Iranian American and nonpracticing
Muslim, who worked as a territory manager for Defendant-Appellee ConMed
Endoscopic Technologies, Inc., for approximately five years. During his tenure at ConMed,
Yazdian received awards, promotions, and praise, but he also had interpersonal problems with
his manager, Timothy Sweatt. In June 20

In this appeal, a Maine dairy
farmer seeks to reverse a summary judgment ruling that rejected
his First Amendment retaliation claim against the former
Commissioner of the Maine Department of Agriculture. The suit
alleges that, while in office, the Commissioner used the state's
regulatory apparatus to retaliate for the First Amendmentprotected
conduct that the farmer engaged

Houston, TX - A federal jury convicted 44–year-old Tyrone Eugene Jordan, a sovereign citizen residing in Houston, for retaliating against a federal judge and prosecutor by making false claims. The jury convicted Jordan of three counts of retaliation against a federal officer or employee by false claim. Evidence and trial testimony revealed that in October 2014, Jordan filed a fraudulent lien--a U

Wharf, a mining company, employed Davis until she was terminated
on May 21, 2013.1 Davis received good performance evaluations during her tenure
at Wharf. She was promoted to leader of her crew and was asked to lead her crew
in the Wellness Program, serve in the Emergency Response Team, and attend the
Leadership Development Program. At her five-year employment anniversary, s

In this appeal, the Court considers the circumstances under which qualified immunity insulates law enforcement officers from claims of civil rights violations arising under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (Section 1983) and the New Jersey Civil Rights Act (CRA), N.J.S.A. 10:6-1 to -2. In December 2010, Monmouth County Sheriff’s Officers Alexander Torres and Thomas Ruocco went to execute a child-support warr

Danny Fischer sued Minneapolis Public Schools (“MPS”) claiming that MPS
violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and the Minnesota Human
Rights Act (“MHRA”) by refusing to reinstate him as a Janitor Engineer. The district
court granted MPS’s motion for summary judgment. 1 Fischer appeals this decision,
and we affirm.
I.
This employment dispute began with MPS’s d

Elizabeth Burciaga sued her employer, Ravago Americas LLC (Ravago),
alleging Ravago violated her rights under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29
U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654. The district court1 granted summary judgment in favor of
Ravago, and Burciaga appeals. We affirm.
I
Burciaga began working at one of Ravago’s unit branches in August 2007 as
a customer service representati

Durham, NC - The State of North Carolina charged Christopher Terrell Stanback, age 27, with first-degree murder claiming that he shot and killed 37-year-old Jermaine Andrew McDonald in a drive-by shooting on June 18, 2013. The State claimed that the motive for McDonald’s slaying, was in retaliation for two previous fights involving members of the defendant’s and victim’s families.

In this appeal from the judgment rendered after a nonjury trial, a landlord
seeks reversal of the trial court’s judgment against her on her tenants’ claims for
failure to repair the premises and for bad-faith retention of their security deposit.
She contends that the tenants’ failure-to-repair claim is barred by res judicata
because it could have been litigated in the landlord’s un

If a whistleblower informs the government that it has
been bilked by a provider of goods and services, and that
scheme is unmasked to the public, under what conditions can
that same whistleblower recover part of what the guilty
provider is forced to reimburse the government? We hold
today that there are two, and only two, requirements in order
for a whistleblower to be an “

In a bench trial before the Superior Court of San Bernardino County, defendant John Lee Cunningham was convicted of the first degree murders of Wayne Sonke, David Smith, and Jose Silva. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 189.1) The trial court found true the special circumstance allegations that defendant committed multiple murders and that the murders of Sonke and Smith took place during the commis