The Seventh Circuit on Monday dismissed Illinois State Senator Sam McCann’s claims that he was booted from the Senate Republican Caucus and denied resources including staff assistance in retaliation for saying he will run for governor as a third-party candidate.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in case that questions whether a claim of retaliatory arrest can survive if officers had probable cause to make the arrest.
Read moreImmigrant advocates charged the U.S. government in court Wednesday with illegal surveillance and harassment done in retaliation for their work organizing farmworkers.
Read moreClaudia Sarahi Rueda Vidal, “the paradigmatic ‘Dreamer,’” who arrived in the United States when she was 6, claims in a federal complaint that she faced retaliatory arrest for her speech, and was denied entrance into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also in retaliation.
Read moreAn attorney for a prominent immigration activist at risk of deportation urged the Second Circuit on Monday not to miss the chance to prevent a “First Amendment black hole.”
Read moreA former criminal deputy with the Utah Attorney General’s Office claims he was needlessly arrested, jailed and humiliated on a material witness arrest warrant in the corruption case of two county DAs, simply because he had an international vacation planned and asked the state to reimburse him for changes to it so he could testify.
Read moreA Nebraska sheriff accused of retaliating against a deputy running for his office pushed the en banc Eighth Circuit on Tuesday to grant him immunity.
Read moreSurvivors of a mass shooting at a Florida nightclub claim in court that a marketing manager for a Philadelphia-based law firm tried to pressure them into sexual relations while they were clients.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld dismissal of retaliation claims brought against Sony Pictures Television by actress Victoria Rowell, finding the studio’s refusal to rehire her on “The Young and the Restless” was because there were no parts for her to play, not because she’d pushed for more minority inclusion on the show.
Read moreChina’s government warned Wednesday it will retaliate if Washington imposes new trade penalties, following a report the Trump administration will propose increasing the tariff rate on an additional $200 billion of Chinese imports.
Read moreNinth Circuit judges heard arguments Tuesday about whether a police chief was simply exercising his First Amendment rights when he convinced a former reporter’s boss to fire him after he wrote a column criticizing the police force.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday held that the existence of probable cause for the arrest of a Florida gadfly at a City Council meeting does not bar his pursuit of a First Amendment retaliation claim against the body.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Illinois State Senator Sam McCann’s claims that he was booted from the Senate Republican Caucus and denied resources including staff assistance in retaliation for saying he will run for governor as a third-party candidate.
Read moreA former officer Los Angeles County sheriff’s officer who says he was one of the few officers willing to testify in the corruption probe that led to the convictions of Sheriff Lee Baca, Undersheriff Paul Tanaka and others claims in a federal complaint that he was “repaid for his acts of courage by shunning, humiliation and ultimately the termination of his career.”
Read moreA black umpire claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Tennis Association forced him out after he complained about discrimination, including the display of a noose near the work area of another black employee.
Read moreA political pundit who claims to have been raped by Fox Business anchor Charles Payne persuaded a federal judge Tuesday to advance her claims against Payne and the network.
Read moreA former staffer for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan sued his campaign committee and the state’s Democratic Party, claiming she was forced out of her job after reporting sexual harassment by a supervisor.
Read moreA former Kentucky House of Representative clerk claims he was fired after pressing leaders for details about a secret sexual harassment settlement involving the House speaker, while two other state workers say they lost their jobs for complaining about harassment by a Labor Cabinet appointee.
Read moreA former host at ESPN filed a lawsuit accusing the network of sex discrimination, claiming male executives watched porn in the open and kept scorecards on female employees with whom they wanted to have sex.
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