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  Plaintiff appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant on plaintiff’s gender-based employment-discrimination claim. Where record revealed no error by the district court, court affirmed the grant of summary judgment to defendant. Judgment is affirmed. Okoye v. ...

Tagged with: employment employment discrimination gender discrimination summary judgment

Where an employer, who was the defendant in an employment-discrimination case, challenged the denial of a motion to compel arbitration, the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision in Soars v. Easter Seals Midwest applied, so the judgment is reversed and remanded because ...

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Plaintiff injured himself attempting to remove generators by himself after being reprimanded by a supervisor for not having the generators moved. During discovery, the district court granted a protective order for deposition of the supervisor. The district court later granted ...

Tagged with: Denial of Discovery Employment Law Federal Employers' Liability Act Protective Order

  Where plaintiff brought a race-discrimination action based on a failure to promote against her employer, summary judgment for the defendant is affirmed because the defendant articulated a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for selecting another candidate, and the plaintiff did not ...

Tagged with: Employment Law Failure To Promote Race Discrimination

  Injunctive Relief Plaintiffs were former employees of defendant who retired before the age of 65 pursuant to defendant’s collective bargaining agreements with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Plaintiffs alleged that defendant’s decision to terminate early-retiree health care benefits breached ...

Tagged with: Early Retirees Employment Law Termination of Healthcare Benefits

  Where a plaintiff challenged the adverse grant of summary judgment in her employment-discrimination action, there was no basis for reversal, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. Nguyen v. Birdi (MLW No. 72973/Case No. 17-3255 – 2 pages) ...

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Plaintiff and his former employer cross-appealed the jury verdict awarding plaintiff damages in his disability-discrimination and wrongful-termination claim. Plaintiff was diagnosed with chronic muscular dystrophy; believing he was being discriminated against due to his disability, plaintiff ultimately applied for and ...

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Plaintiff appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff’s former employer, on plaintiff’s wage discrimination and retaliation claims. Where plaintiff’s pay differential was explained by valid factors other than sex and where plaintiff failed to ...

Tagged with: Employment Law Nondiscriminatory Factors Retaliation Wage Discrimination

  Plaintiff filed suit against defendant, his employer, claiming a hostile work environment created by his manager’s racist comments and racially motivated decision-making. The jury found for plaintiff, awarding nominal compensatory damages and $250,000 in punitive damages to him. On ...

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  Where employer challenged the award of past and future medical expenses and permanent total disability benefits to a claimant, the judgment is affirmed in part because the award of future medical expenses was supported by substantial and competent evidence, ...

Tagged with: Employment Law Future Medical Expenses Medical Expense Liability PTD

  Where a claimant, who suffered work-related hearing loss, brought a claim against the Second Injury Fund, the commission did not err in denying the claim as time barred because the second-amended claim failed to raise new issues regarding liability, ...

Tagged with: Employment Law Settlement Stipulations SIF Liability Statute Of Limitations