Former Panama City Beach City Clerk Mary Jan Bossert sued the city in Bay County Court, claiming it fired her for fulfilling a legitimate public records request from a local talk show host who is a political enemy of the mayor and a City Council member.
Read moreJesse Leon sued Los Angeles and City Councilman José Huizar in superior court, claiming Huizar fired him to retaliate for reporting his concerns that Huizar “intended to extort commercial cannabis operators seeking to do business within his council district” by demanding “political donations, ‘consulting fees’ funneled to the councilmember’s friends, and cash payments made directly to Huizar.”
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A federal judge refused Tuesday to dismiss a literary advocacy group’s First Amendment claims over President Donald Trump’s threats to retaliate against critical media coverage by revoking White House press credentials.
Read moreThe former director of food supply chain management claims the New York City Department of Education harassed and demoted her to retaliate for her true complaints that “pizza with green discoloration was being served to children attending DOE schools,” in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreA former adjunct professor sued Corning (N.Y.) Community College, claiming it fired her for asking it to remove from her class a student who wrote a patently offensive, anti-Semitic essay praising Hitler for murdering Jews; the corrected essay is attached to the complaint.
Read moreA city employee sued Florence, Alabama in federal court, claiming it discriminated and retaliated against him because he’s black, and that though 18.6% of city residents are black, only 5 of the city’s 125 employees are.
Read moreA former assistant public defender sued the Judicial Conference of the United States, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, et al., in federal court, claiming they conspired to violate her civil rights after she truthfully complained of sexual harassment, but “punished” and “intimidated” her for reporting it.
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Guatemala’s former chief prosecutor said Monday she has been granted asylum in the United States, in the face of charges filed in her home country that she claims are retaliation for her anti-corruption campaign.
Read moreTiffany Vinson, a senior Homeland Security coordinator, claims the City of San Diego fired her to retaliate for her blowing the whistle on misconduct in the San Diego Police Department, in superior court.
Read moreKevin Cloyd, a civilian assistant fire chief at a U.S. military base in Iraq, sued KBR for $10 million, claiming he suffered brain injuries in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack after KBR “ignore(d) the unambiguous threats of retaliation” and “failed to evacuate its workers after the United States assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Harris County Court.
Read moreAndre Chartrand, a former vice president of engineering, claims Solarflare Communications illegally fired and defamed him to retaliate for his refusal to participate with the government in “illegal international espionage” involving embedding “spy software for transmission to Chinese customers,” in San Diego Superior Court.
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New York state brought a federal complaint Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s move to freeze New Yorkers out of the “trusted traveler” run by Homeland Security meant to speed U.S. re-entry after a visit abroad.
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a national security official who became a star witness against President Donald Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, was removed from his job at the White House on Friday, his attorney said.
Read moreA black former employee claims Pozin Enterprises dba Sun-Glo Plating Co. fired him after he complained about racial harassment at work, including the owner’s comment: “You should be happy you have a good paying job. It’s not that long ago that your people were being hung in the streets,” in Tampa Federal Court.
Read moreA top commander in Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary network said Wednesday it was time for an “Iraqi response” to a U.S. drone strike that killed the network’s deputy chief.
Read moreIran struck two military bases used by U.S. forces in Iraq on Wednesday to avenge the assassination last week of top military commander Qasem Soleimani.
Read moreTwo former executives claim in federal court that Standard Chartered Bank (of London, Dubai and New York) fired them for reporting schemes by which the bank helped Iran duck international sanctions.
Read moreUber agreed to a $4.4 million settlement Wednesday with workers who say they were discriminated against based on their gender. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found the company permitted a “culture of sexual harassment and retaliation against individuals who complained about such harassment.”
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The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in McDonald’s favor in a long-running case filed by 20 workers who were fired or faced retaliation for trying to unionize.
Read moreElectric Boat subjected a black worker to relentless harassment and retaliation for two years, such as “Trump’s wall will get rid of all the spics and niggers and this will make our country great again,” the man claims in Providence Superior Court.
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