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Ricci v. DeStefano

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action claiming that a city discriminated against white firefighter candidates for a promotion by discarding their test results based...

Broderick v. Evans

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an employment termination action, district court judgment is affirmed where: 1) the evidence was sufficient for a jury to conclude that protected...

United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1546 v. Illinois-American Water Co.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment termination action, district grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiff and the arbitrator's award for plaintiff is affirmed...

Matrisciano v. Randle.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court grant of summary judgment on plaintiff's First Amendment retaliation claim is affirmed where it was not clearly established at the time...

Hallinan v. Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought against a union alleging First and Fourteenth Amendment violations pursuant to 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, district court judgment...

NLRB v. C&C Roofing Supply, Inc.

Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
The NLRB's petition to enforce a consent judgment providing that Respondent would reinstate unlawfully terminated employees is granted, where the...

Dutka v. AIG Life Ins. Co.

ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action to recover accidental death insurance relating to an airplane crash, summary judgment for Defendant-Insurer is affirmed, where the...

Crawford v. City of Los Angeles

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment termination action, trial court judgment is reversed and remanded where: 1) trial court erred in ruling that two of the counts of the...

McConnell v. Innovative Artists Talent and Literary Agency, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an dispute involving an employment contract, trial court judgment is affirmed where the trial court properly denied defendant's motion to strike...

Chial v. Sprint/United Management Co.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In a diversity action under a state whistleblower statute, district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff...