Where a lead sales associate quit her job and sued her employer for disability discrimination and retaliation after her request for a leave of absence was denied, the plaintiff repeatedly told a supervisor that she wanted to take a leave ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Reasonable Accommodation Retaliation

Where a plaintiff who suffered an eye injury while working for his railway employer challenged an adverse verdict on retaliation claims brought under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, the jury instructions misstated the “honestly held belief” defense in the context ...

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Where appellant challenged the adverse grant of summary judgment on her retaliation claim, the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not err. Judgment is affirmed. Wilson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (MLW No. 73821/Case No. 18-3139 – ...

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A plaintiff whose discrimination claim has been sent to arbitration no longer owes court costs to the defendants, following a ruling from the Court of Appeals Western District. Hal Miller filed a lawsuit in 2018 claiming disability discrimination and harassment, ...

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The University of Missouri has agreed to pay $360,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by a University of Missouri-Kansas City professor who alleged that he was retaliated against for reporting the abusive behavior of his colleague, Ashim Mitra. According to ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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