University of Illinois
22 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2006–2026)
7 trusted published court opinions across 7 distinct cases · 2 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list University of Illinois as an employer in 22 distinct federal employment cases between 2006 and 2026.
Of the 7 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 5 ended in a ruling for the employer, 1 had a mixed result, and 1 were sent back to a lower court.
The most common claims on record were Retaliation, Discrimination, and Harassment.
Cases were filed across 1 state (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 7 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
University of Illinois appears in 7 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Park v. Stake (2021) — Defendant Win. An employee filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois claiming discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and a hostile work environment. However, the employee had already taken these same complaints to court before in a previous case. Read the ruling.
Park v. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (2021) — Defendant Win. This case involved a civil rights discrimination lawsuit filed by an employee named Park against the University of Illinois. Park claimed the university discriminated against them, though the specific details of what type of discrimination occurred are not available from the court records provided. Read the ruling.
Sharma v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (2019) — Mixed Result. An employee named Sharma sued the University of Illinois, claiming unfair treatment based on protected characteristics, retaliation for complaining about workplace problems, harassment, and wrongful firing. The university and some individual defendants asked the court to dismiss the case early. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Retaliation (4 of 7), Discrimination (3 of 7), Harassment (3 of 7). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Retaliation, Discrimination and Harassment.
Published opinions span Illinois. 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.
These published opinions sit within the education sector, where Title IX intersects with Title VII and tenure-revocation cases raise heightened procedural protections.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
7 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.
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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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.