Accused of pocketing a million dollars from a coronavirus relief loan, fast food giant Starboard Group’s chief executive maintains he has “clear and complete” financial records to refute the claims.
Read moreTexas Governor Greg Abbott and other defendants are entitled to absolute prosecutorial immunity in a case brought by former state Judge Suzanne Wooten, the Fifth Circuit ruled. Wooten claims law enforcement officials unconstitutionally investigated and prosecuted her in retaliation for unseating an incumbent judge.
Read moreChina on Tuesday threatened to retaliate against new U.S. restrictions on Chinese state media, escalating tensions between the two superpowers as they crack down on each other’s news outlets.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled in favor of a police officer sued for First Amendment retaliation and excessive force by a Second Amendment activist who was arrested while filming another officer’s encounter with a fellow activist. The woman failed to follow the arresting officer’s commands.
Read moreA former nursing director sued Landmark of DesPlaines Rehabilitation and Nursing in Cook County Court, claiming it fired her for accurately reporting the number of Covid-19 patients it had, rather than the smaller number the nursing home wanted.
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Beijing warned Washington on Monday of retaliation after President Trump announced restrictions on Chinese students in the United States in protest against a new national security law in Hong Kong
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The former head of U.S. vaccination efforts against the novel coronavirus brought formal charges Tuesday that blame his firing on the Trump administration’s fixation with an unproven antimalarial drug.
Read moreThe longtime head of the Tiverton, R.I. Local 833 of the National Education Association sued the district and its superintendent in federal court, claiming he issued a gag order and then fired her to retaliate for her speech about a distance learning plan during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Read moreA former employee sued Trader Joe’s East in Jefferson County Court (Louisville), claiming it fired him for protesting on Facebook that the company would not let workers wear gloves at work during the pandemic without a doctor’s order.
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India says it will lift a ban on some drug exports including hydroxychloroquine after President Trump threatened retaliation if India failed to send the antimalarial drug to the United States.
Read moreA woman claims in federal court that Kentucky-based Paschall Truck Lines refused to provide a female on-the-road trainer for her, but assigned her a trainer with an “extensive criminal history” and he “forcibly raped and sodomized” her repeatedly on the road, and when she reported it, it fired her.
Read moreFormer 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.
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