International Business Machines Corporation
16 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (2000–2023)
7 trusted published court opinions across 7 distinct cases · 1 docket-only case without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, International Business Machines Corporation is named as a party in 16 federal cases coded as employment matters between 2000 and 2023.
Of the 6 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 4 ended in a ruling for the employer and 2 had a mixed result.
1 further opinion is listed below but left out of these outcome figures, because the employer brought the case or was not a party to it.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, and Retaliation.
Cases were filed across 3 states, most often in NY.
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 7 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
International Business Machines Corporation appears in 7 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
McNeil v. International Business MacHines Corp. (2023) — Defendant Win. McNeil worked for IBM and believed he was wrongfully fired based on his age, a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. He filed a dispute through IBM's arbitration process, which requires employees to resolve workplace conflicts through a private arbitrator rather than court. Read the ruling.
Stafford v. Int'l Bus. MacHs. Corp. (2023) — Mixed Result. Stafford filed a discrimination claim against IBM and pursued the case through arbitration—a private dispute resolution process rather than public court. Stafford won the case and received a financial award. Read the ruling.
Wang v. International Business Machines Corp. (2021) — Defendant Win. Wang filed a lawsuit against IBM claiming discrimination and wrongful termination. The case was settled in 2014 for $207,500. Years later, Wang filed multiple requests asking the court to reopen the settlement agreement and reconsider the decision. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination (4 of 7), Wrongful Termination (2 of 7), Retaliation (2 of 7). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Wrongful Termination and Retaliation.
Published opinions span New York (4), District of Columbia (1), California (1). New York 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. New York rulings, District of Columbia rulings and California rulings.
These published opinions sit within the technology sector, where age-discrimination, non-compete, and whistleblower-retaliation claims appear frequently.
Opinion Outcomes
1 listed opinion is not counted here: the employer brought the case, or was not a party to an appeal against an agency, so the recorded outcome is not a result for or against a worker.
Opinion Stages
6 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 1 summary-judgment opinions, 1 ended the case in International Business Machines Corporation’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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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. International Business Machines CorporationD. Conn. · 2025 · Connecticut
- Employee v. International Business Machines CorporationS.D.N.Y. · 2024 · New York
- Employee v. International Business Machines CorporationS.D.N.Y. · 2021 · New York
- Employee v. International Business Machines CorporationS.D.N.Y. · 2021 · New York
- Employee v. IBM Personal Pension PlanS.D.N.Y. · 2000 · New York
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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.