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Where a railroad corporation sought review of a labor department decision finding that the railroad violated whistleblower retaliation provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act by suspending a locomotive engineer, the administrative review board and the administrative law judge committed ...

Tagged with: FRSA Whistleblower Retaliation

Where a ground freight employee sued his former employer for race discrimination, and the district court found that the suit invoked federal question jurisdiction under the Labor Management Relations Act, the court properly found that complete preemption under the LMRA ...

Tagged with: Federal Question Jurisdiction Preemption Race Discrimination

Where a plaintiff in a disability-discrimination action challenged the grant of summary judgment to her former employer, the U.S. Department of Energy, the uncontroverted facts established that the DOE accommodated the plaintiff’s disabilities to the extent that she requested specific ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Failure To Accommodate

Where a plaintiff in a disability-discrimination action challenged the grant of summary judgment to her former employer, the U.S. Department of Energy, the uncontroverted facts established that the DOE accommodated the plaintiff’s disabilities to the extent that she requested specific ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Failure To Accommodate

Defendant appealed from the grant of partial summary judgment in favor of plaintiff in his petition for review of the decision to remove plaintiff as chief of police. On appeal, defendants argued that the trial court erred in finding that ...

Tagged with: due process Removal from Public Office

Defendant appealed from the trial court’s judgment enforcing a non-compete covenant against defendant. On appeal, defendant argued that the non-compete was overbroad, that his acceptance of a subsequent job superseded his agreement containing the non-compete covenant, and that the non-compete ...

Tagged with: Enforceability Non-Compete

Plaintiff was general manager for defendants when he learned from the finance director that customer financial information had been stolen from her. When the finance director engaged on a course to recover the information without alerting customers of the breach, ...

Tagged with: Demotion Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retaliation

Where an assistant college professor brought claims including discriminatory discharge based on disability following her termination, the plaintiff did not identify facts to support a cat’s paw theory and did not raise this argument before the district court, and the ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Pretext

Where a university staff scientist, who suffered from herniated discs, sued the university and a supervisor for retaliation after her termination, on an issue of first impression the court finds that an accommodation request under the Missouri Human Rights Act ...

Tagged with: Accommodation Request MHRA Retaliation

Defendant appealed the order overruling its motion to stay the proceedings and compel arbitration of plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit. Plaintiff claimed that she had vision issues and had her store’s assistant manager complete electronic documents for her upon plaintiff’s hiring, ...

Tagged with: Arbitration disability discrimination

Plaintiff appealed the district court’s denial of plaintiff’s motion to compel arbitration of its grievances against defendant. Defendant previously had announced that it would close a manufacturing plant; after discussions, the parties signed a memorandum of understanding extending their collective ...

Tagged with: collective bargaining agreement Early Retirement Benefits Motion to Compel Arbitration