Shell Oil Company
32 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (1982–2025)
4 trusted published court opinions across 4 distinct cases · 3 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, Shell Oil Company is named as a party in 32 federal cases coded as employment matters between 1982 and 2025.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Failure To Accommodate, and Wage Theft.
Cases were filed across 3 states, most often in TX.
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 4 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Shell Oil Company appears in 4 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Fernando Gastelum v. Shell USA, Inc. (2025) — Dismissed. Fernando Gastelum sued Shell USA, Inc., claiming the company failed to make reasonable accommodations for him as required by disability laws. The court gave Gastelum a chance to improve his complaint but set a specific deadline for submitting the revised version. Read the ruling.
Naghani v. Shell Expatriate Employment US Inc (2020) — Defendant Win. Read the ruling.
United Steel, Paper & Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing Energy, Allied Industrial & Service Workers International Union v. Shell Oil Co. (2008) — Defendant Win. Workers' union representatives filed a wage theft class action against Shell Oil Company and another company called Tesoro. The lawsuit claimed these employers improperly withheld wages from their workers. The case started in state court, where a judge initially ordered it sent back. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination, Failure to Accommodate, Wage Theft. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Failure to Accommodate and Wage Theft.
Published opinions span Texas (1), Illinois (1), California (1). Texas 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. Texas rulings, Illinois rulings and California rulings.
These published opinions sit within the manufacturing sector, where OSHA whistleblower, FMLA, and disability-accommodation claims are most common.
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
2 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.
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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.