First Student, Inc.
119 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2001–2026)
12 trusted published court opinions across 11 distinct cases · 6 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list First Student, Inc. as an employer in 119 distinct federal employment cases between 2001 and 2026.
Of the 12 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 4 ended in a ruling for the employer, 3 were dismissed, 3 had a mixed result, and 1 ended in a ruling for the worker.
Plaintiffs won 1 of 11 adjudicated opinions (9%).
The most common claims on record were Wage Theft, Failure To Accommodate, and Wrongful Termination.
Cases were filed across 3 states, most often in CA.
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 11 distinct cases.
1 of 11 adjudicated opinions ended in a plaintiff win.
Does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
First Student, Inc. appears in 12 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Galvan v. First Student Management, LLC (2024) — Dismissed. Workers filed a lawsuit against First Student Management, LLC, claiming the company failed to pay them proper wages and didn't provide required workplace accommodations. The workers wanted to bring a class action lawsuit—combining their claims into one case so many employees could pursue damages together. Read the ruling.
PENDLETON v. FIRST TRANSIT, INC. (2024) — Mixed Result. Employees at First Transit, Inc. filed a wage theft case claiming the company violated federal wage laws. About 240 workers wanted to join together as a group lawsuit rather than suing individually. Read the ruling.
Bellone v. First Transit, Inc. (2022) — Dismissed. This case involved a discrimination lawsuit filed by an employee named Bellone against their employer, First Transit, Inc., a transportation company. Bellone claimed they faced workplace discrimination, though the specific details of the alleged discriminatory treatment are not provided in the available court documents… Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Wage Theft (4 of 12), Failure to Accommodate (4 of 12), Wrongful Termination (3 of 12). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Wage Theft, Failure to Accommodate and Wrongful Termination.
Published opinions span California (4), Ohio (1), Texas (1). California 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. California rulings, Ohio rulings and Texas rulings.
These published opinions sit within the transportation sector, where USERRA, FMLA, and DOT safety-retaliation claims appear alongside standard discrimination claims.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
12 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
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.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
- Settlement / consent decree
- The two sides resolved the dispute by agreement, sometimes with court approval. Most settlements are private and never show up in published opinions.
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.