Electric 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.
Read moreA former audit director seeks punitive damages from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., claiming it retaliated against him for truthfully reporting that senior management was engaging in “revenue manipulation, kickbacks, bribery of foreign officials, and employment of ‘ghost’ employees,” in Santa Clara County Court.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit ruled against a charter school CEO who sued the superintendent of the Louisiana Department of Education for retaliation. The CEO claims her charter school application was denied because she expressed her opinions on using corporal punishment on a reality television show called “America’s Supernanny.”
Read moreEight Judy Does sued Wynn Resorts in Clark County Court, claiming it refused to investigate their claims of sexual harassment against CEO Steve Wynn, and retaliated against them for speaking about it.
Read moreThe city of Fort Collins, Colorado, must face gender-discrimination and retaliation claims from a crime analyst who said her error rate was less than 0.001% when her supervisor reassigned her work to men, saying he’d “lost confidence” in her performance, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreAn Illinois appeals court ruled against a former employee of a community college who claimed she was fired for reporting sexual harassment after she found pornographic pictures in a colleague’s desk drawer. The former employee did not have permission to access the desk and the colleague never committed any overt acts of sexual harassment toward her.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the New York City Department of Education retaliated against a teacher by firing him the very day the department partially approved his request for accommodation.
Read moreA federal judge refused the Gretna Police Department summary judgment in the case of a former sergeant who says his opposition of arrest-and-citation quota system got him fired.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss six women’s claims that Howard University discriminated against them for reporting sexual assaults, since the students supported their claims with evidence.
Read moreA former Republican candidate for the New York Senate who was sentenced to prison two years ago in an apartment-rental scam claims in a lawsuit filed Friday that he was forced to strip naked and undergo a body-cavity search as punishment for complaining about inadequate medical treatment.
Read moreThe Third Circuit revived claims that a public school district violated a custodian’s free speech by transferring him after he expressed pro-union opinions.
Read moreIndiana’s top law enforcement official faces a federal lawsuit from three female statehouse staffers and one lawmaker who accuse him of inappropriate comments and touching at a staff party last year.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews fired a woman for complaining that her supervisor refused to promote her after she refused to have sex with him.
Read moreA festival goer who says his cheeky confrontation with police got him arrested later that day on trumped-up charges lost his case Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed and submitted to mediation a man’s complaint of sex discrimination and retaliation, in part because the 195-page pleading is overly lengthy, repetitive and confusing.
Read moreA little more than two years ago, as the attempted deportation of immigration activist Ravi Ragbir became a lightning rod in New York, one Immigration and Customs Enforcement official vented about his agency’s worsening image.
Read moreA woman who says she reported a colleague’s sexual harassment allegations against the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard can advance claims that she was fired as former director of D.C. Government Operations in retaliation, a federal judge ruled.
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