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AFL-CIO v. Lockyer

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
California Assembly Bill 1889, which bars employers from spending "state funds" on union-related speech, is preempted by the National Labor Relations...

Hess v. Reg-Ellen Machine Tool Corp.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
An employee stock ownership plan administrator's denial of plaintiffs' request for diversification of their retirement funds was not arbitrary and...

Phillips v. US

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a negligence claim, summary judgment in favor of defendant-United States Postal Service is reversed where the district court erred in finding that...

Capobianco v. City of New York

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination dispute, summary judgment in favor of defendant is reversed and the case is remanded to determine whether plaintiff,...

EEOC v. Nat'l Educ. Ass'n

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Offensive conduct that is not facially sex-specific may violate Title VII if there is sufficient circumstantial evidence of qualitative and...

Caldwell v. TACC Corp.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability, Workers' Compensation
In a settlement of a products-liability suit, the trial court properly ruled that defendant-insurance carrier was not entitled to a subrogation lien...

Thorman v. Am. Seafoods Co.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a wage dispute, dismissal of plaintiff-fish processor's suit is affirmed where his claims are time-barred because the contractual six-month limit...

Farrell v. Butler Univ.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a sex discrimination suit under Title VII, dismissal of plaintiff's disparate treatment claim is affirmed where she did not establish that...

Brown v. Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for employment retaliation, judgment in favor of defendants is affirmed where plaintiff-correctional officer's claim is foreclosed under...

Horsford v. Bd. of Trustees

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action, the jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs is affirmed over defendant's claim that plaintiffs did not suffer an...