Four former Texas Attorney General’s Office staffers fired after they accused Ken Paxton of criminal corruption say their former boss went to “bizarre” lengths to use his office to help a campaign donor.
Read moreTwo octogenarian residents of the Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, and their adult son say in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Chicago suburb’s mayor and other officials harassed and retaliated against them with tickets, surveillance and threats because of their lawn chairs, flags, political signs and decorations. The mayor called the son a “jag off,” a “piece of shit,” and a “hillbilly,” during a recorded public meeting and also used a racial slur during the tirade.
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Just a week ago, the online retail giant had filed suit to block the investigations supporting the New York attorney general’s latest filing.
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Attorneys for a man who says he was subjected to retaliatory law enforcement scrutiny for speaking publicly about the infamous Jacob Wetterling abduction told an Eighth Circuit panel Tuesday that his claims should be heard.
Read moreA federal court in Florida denied retiring Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein’s request to dismiss a suit brought by Ruby Green, a former assistant public defender, who says she was wrongfully fired over statements she made while campaigning to replace him.
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A panel of Fifth Circuit judges heard arguments related to the First Amendment on Wednesday in the case of a popular citizen journalist in Texas who was arrested for putting the names of two deceased people on social media before they were made public by authorities.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit reassigned a professor’s cases, in which she alleges that Sam Houston State University retaliated against her for making discrimination complaints, to a different judge in the Southern District of Texas. The judge presiding over her cases in the federal district court made prejudicial comments, saying he would “crush” the professor’s counsel in response to their opposition to consolidating her two cases.
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Private prison officials seized a newspaper editor’s phone and delayed his release from a halfway house after he shared information about a Covid-19 outbreak at the facility, the journalist claims in a lawsuit filed Monday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled a lower court improperly denied an immigrant’s habeas petition, which argued that his arrest and re-detention was “retaliation for his protected speech.” The immigrant was re-arrested less than 36 hours after he read a poem that criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices. The government has the burden to show that it “would have taken the same action even in the absence of the protected conduct.”
Read moreTwo West Virginia school bus drivers claim they were unfairly suspended for having traveled to Washington, D.C., for a pro-Trump rally that turned into an insurrectionist attack, despite the women not participating in violence at the U.S. Capitol.
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A hospital worker who was fired for complaining to a newspaper about staffing practices got a sympathetic ear at the First Circuit Wednesday, in a case that has drawn national attention due to the large number of health care workers who have recently been terminated for speaking out about inadequate protection during the pandemic.
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Google has been given two weeks to respond to a US labor board complaint accusing the internet giant of using surveillance, interrogation and other tactics to spy on activist employees.
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Four former seniors staffers have sued Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, claiming they were retaliated against after they reported him to the FBI for bribery and abuse of office for allegedly using his position to help a mistress and a campaign donor.
Read moreUnion reps for Paterson, New Jersey, police officers asked a federal judge Monday to stop the release of officers’ disciplinary records, accusing the city of retaliating against those who file grievances.
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A Paris court on Friday fined Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan for disclosing the name of one of several women who have accused him of rape, violating a French law that protects alleged victims from “retaliation and harassment.”
Read moreA federal judge rejected Elvis Presley Enterprises’ retaliation claim arising from a dispute with the city of Memphis over a planned redevelopment of Graceland, including a proposed 6,200-seat arena at Elvis’ former mansion.
Read moreDemocratic congressional candidate Nathan McMurray claims in court that his six-year tenure as corporate counsel for Delaware North Cos. came to end because the hospitality giant is retaliating against him for running against Republican Chris Jacobs, who is the nephew of Delaware North’s chairman.
Read moreMANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge roasted the Trump administration on Tuesday for its now-abandoned attempt to kick New Yorkers
Read moreA professor at the Yale School of Medicine may sue the university for punishing him a second time for the same sexual harassment claim brought against him by a fellow professor following a suspension he served, a federal judge ruled. The professor has adequately shown that no female professor has been punished twice for the same infraction.
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