Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, her former employer and several of its executives, alleging retaliation, discrimination and hostile work environment. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants. Where the record reflected that several individual defendants were not decision-makers and ...

Tagged with: discrimination hostile work environment Retaliation

Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, her former employers, alleging they unlawfully terminated her in retaliation for plaintiff’s exercise of her rights under the FMLA and the Missouri Human Rights Act; plaintiff’s husband also asserted a loss of consortium claim. The ...

Tagged with: FMLA Retaliation Unlawful Termination

Where plaintiff job applicant sued an auto-company employer for disability discrimination and retaliation under the Missouri Human Rights Act, the district court properly applied the broad range-of-jobs standard, and summary judgment for the defendant is affirmed because the plaintiff failed ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Retaliation

Where a plaintiff in an employment-discrimination and -retaliation action challenged the dismissal of his complaint, the judgment is affirmed because the plaintiff’s factual allegations did not plausibly give rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination or retaliation. Judgment is affirmed. ...

Tagged with: discrimination Employment Law Factual Allegations Retaliation

  Where an inmate brought claims alleging interference with his access to courts and  retaliatory discipline, the defendants were entitled to summary judgment on the access-to-courts claim, but a retaliatory-discipline claim against a defendant sergeant is remanded for the district ...

Tagged with: Access to Courts civil rights Inmate Action Retaliation

  Where a terminated deputy sued his employer for First Amendment retaliation, the denial of summary judgment to the defendant sheriff  is reversed and remanded because the evidence showed that the defendant could have reasonably believed that the plaintiff’s speech ...

Tagged with: civil rights First Amendment Qualified Immunity Retaliation

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 appealed the dismissal of his Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Title VII complaint, arguing that the district court erroneously granted adverse summary judgment on his discrimination and retaliation claims after he established pretext. Where the record supported the ...

Tagged with: age discrimination Criminal Law Pretext Retaliation

  Where an inmate presented evidence that specific defendants placed him in administrative segregation and prevented him from providing his attorney with legal documents shortly after he filed a prior lawsuit against prison officials, an issue of material fact remained ...

Tagged with: Administrative Segregation Inmate Action Retaliation

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of her Title VII and §1981 employment-discrimination and retaliation claims, following which the district court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over her state law claims. Where plaintiff failed to file her complaint within 90 days of ...

Tagged with: discrimination Employer - Employee Retaliation Timeliness of Claim

Where a school district employer challenged a judgment against it on claims of retaliation brought by security-officer employees under the Missouri Human Rights Act, the judgment is affirmed because the plaintiffs presented sufficient evidence to submit the case to the ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Employer - Employee MHRA Retaliation