China’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.
Read moreAttorneys for a man arrested for disrupting a Florida city council meeting pressed the Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide whether probable cause defeats claims of retaliatory arrest for First-Amendment-protected speech.
Read moreA securities whistleblower must alert regulators to benefit from federal anti-retaliation protections, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to a man who reported issues internally.
Read moreA federal jury found Monday that former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke did not violate a Wisconsin man’s free-speech rights by mocking him on social media about an airport encounter stemming from the man shaking his head at the sheriff during a flight last year.
Read moreA federal judge issued a split ruling for a cheerleader who sued Albuquerque Public Schools for refusing to let her transfer high schools unless she promised not to sue after teammates took nude pictures of her and posted them on Snapchat.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Friday that former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke will go to trial later this month over claims he threatened a Wisconsin man online after an airport encounter stemming from the man shaking his head at the sheriff during a flight last year.
Read moreThe communications director for former Kentucky House Speaker Jeff Hoover claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that she was effectively fired after disclosing a secret settlement between Hoover and a sexual harassment accuser paid for with campaign donor money.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Thursday that a former person of interest in the mysterious 1989 abduction of a Minnesota boy can pursue retaliation and defamation claims against county officials.
Read moreA dishwasher at the Staples Center claims the Los Angeles Kings hockey team’s mascot – while in full lion regalia – pinched his butt in an elevator, and that he was retaliated against when he complained to the human resources manager, who is the mascot’s wife.
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