Illinois Bell Telephone Company
205 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (2000–2025)
11 trusted published court opinions across 10 distinct cases · 3 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, Illinois Bell Telephone Company is named as a defendant in 205 federal cases coded as employment matters between 2000 and 2025.
Of the 11 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 4 ended in a ruling for the worker, 3 ended in a ruling for the employer, 3 were sent back to a lower court, and 1 had a mixed result.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, and Retaliation.
Cases were filed across 3 states, most often in IL.
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 10 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Illinois Bell Telephone Company appears in 11 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
House v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. (2015) — Mixed Result. An employee named House sued Illinois Bell Telephone Company, claiming the company failed to pay wages legally owed. The lawsuit raised claims under both federal wage laws and Illinois state wage protection laws. Read the ruling.
Rachells v. Cingular Wireless Employee Services, LLC (2013) — Remanded. This case involved an employee at Cingular Wireless who claimed he was fired because of his race during company layoffs. The worker, Rachells, sued his former employer arguing that the decision to terminate him was based on racial discrimination rather than legitimate business reasons. Read the ruling.
Jones v. Cingular Wireless Employee Services, L.L.C. (2011) — Defendant Win. Jones, an employee at Cingular Wireless, claimed the company discriminated against her based on race when they denied her a trainer position and later fired her. She also alleged the company retaliated against her for complaining about discrimination. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination (8 of 11), Wrongful Termination (5 of 11), Retaliation (3 of 11). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Wrongful Termination and Retaliation.
Published opinions span Illinois (1), Missouri (1), Georgia (1). Illinois 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. Illinois rulings, Missouri rulings and Georgia rulings.
These published opinions sit within the telecommunications sector, where reduction-in-force age-discrimination, FMLA, and whistleblower-retaliation claims appear frequently.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
11 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 1 summary-judgment opinions, 1 ended the case in Illinois Bell Telephone 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.
- Trial verdict
- A judge or jury heard the evidence and reached a decision. Relatively few disputes get this far.
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
public court recordsOne row per court+docket case · written opinions stay grouped inside their case · plaintiff names redacted
Other court records naming this party
5 published opinions name this party but are not coded with an employment claim. Some are labor, unemployment or workers’ compensation matters whose claim type was not recorded; others are not employment disputes at all. They are not counted in any figure on this page, and no outcome is shown for them.
- Employee v. NLRBD.C. Circuit · 2015
- Employee v. Reemployment Assistance Appeals CommissionFla. Dist. Ct. App. · 2014 · Florida
- Employee v. Cingular Wireless Employee Services, LLCD. Minn. · 2011 · Minnesota
- Union Electric Co. v. Employee8th Circuit · 2004
- Employee v. Southwestern Bell Telephone L.P., Successor Southwestern Bell Telephone Company8th Circuit · 2004
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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.