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Womack v. San Francisco Cmty. College Dist

Administrative Law, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In dispute over whether petitioner, a former temporary instructor of English as a Second Language, became a contract employee who could not be...

Stalcup v. Peabody Coal Co.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of black lung benefits is reversed where an ALJ cannot avoid scientific controversy over the presence of the disease in defendant by basing his...

Carnival Corp. v. Carlisle

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
A cruise line is not vicariously liable for the medical malpractice of the shipboard doctor, committed on a ship's passenger.

Muhammad v. Dallas County Cmty. Supervision & Corr. Dep't

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought by a probation officer against a county corrections department claiming race discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title...

Byrd v. BT Foods, Inc.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Whether an HIV infected individual is disabled under the ADA or handicapped under the Florida Civil Rights Act turns on the facts of each case. In an...

California Dep't of Corr. v. California State Personnel Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where defendant dismissed all disciplinary and dishonesty charges against plaintiff's employees for participating in a pyramid scheme wherein...

Almonte v. City of Long Beach

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In civil rights and wrongful discharge case involving defendant city council members' budget vote to eliminate funding for plaintiffs' positions, an...

Baylie v. Fed. Reserve Bank of Chicago

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant is affirmed in a discrimination suit where one plaintiff could not demonstrate that the employer's proffered reasons...

Scheuring v. Traylor Bros., Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a suit brought by a crane operator on a barge against an employer as a seaman under the Jones Act or as a harbor worker under the Longshore and...

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. King Soopers, Inc.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Orders issued by the NLRB against an employer, based on violations of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in failing to provide documents and...