Eli Lilly & Company
11 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (1991–2024)
6 trusted published court opinions across 5 distinct cases · 1 docket-only case without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Eli Lilly & Company as an employer in 11 distinct federal employment cases between 1991 and 2024.
Of the 6 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 2 ended in a ruling for the employer, 2 were sent back to a lower court, 1 were dismissed, and 1 had a mixed result.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Retaliation, and Wrongful Termination.
Cases were filed across 3 states, most often in IN.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 5 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Eli Lilly & Company appears in 6 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Jones v. Eli Lilly and Company (2021) — Mixed Result. This case involved a discrimination lawsuit filed by an employee named Jones against pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company in 2021. The worker claimed they faced discrimination at work, though the specific details of what type of discrimination occurred are not available from the court records provided. Read the ruling.
Terada v. Eli Lilly and Company (2015) — Remanded. This case involved an employment dispute between an employee named Terada and pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company. While the specific details of what Terada claimed are not provided in the available information, this was an employment law matter that made its way through the Illinois court system in 2015. Read the ruling.
Terada v. Eli Lilly and Company (2015) — Remanded. An employee named Terada filed an employment law dispute against pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company. While the specific details of the complaint aren't included in the court record, the case involved disagreements about workplace rights or conditions. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination (3 of 6), Retaliation (3 of 6), Wrongful Termination (3 of 6). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Retaliation and Wrongful Termination.
Published opinions span Indiana (2), Illinois (2), Maryland (1). Indiana is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Indiana rulings, Illinois rulings and Maryland rulings.
These published opinions sit within the pharmaceutical sector, where sales-force misclassification, FCA whistleblower-retaliation, and disability-accommodation claims raise unique issues.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
6 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 1 summary-judgment opinions, 1 ended the case in Eli Lilly & Company’s favor and 0 let the worker’s claims continue.
What do these stages mean?
- Appeal
- A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
- Summary judgment
- A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.