University of Tennessee
14 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (1994–2025)
3 trusted published court opinions across 3 distinct cases · 2 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, University of Tennessee is named as a defendant in 14 federal cases coded as employment matters between 1994 and 2025.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Failure To Accommodate, and Whistleblower.
Cases were filed across 1 state (TN).
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 3 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
University of Tennessee appears in 3 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Stefanovic v. University of Tennessee (1996) — Dismissed. An employee filed a lawsuit against the University of Tennessee claiming discrimination and retaliation for reporting wrongdoing (whistleblower claims). The university asked the court to throw out most of the case before trial. Read the ruling.
Hiefner v. University of Tennessee (1995) — Dismissed. A University of Tennessee employee named Hiefner sued the university and individual staff members, claiming discrimination and violations of constitutional rights related to their employment situation. Read the ruling.
Maddox v. University of Tennessee (1994) — Defendant Win. This case involved a discrimination lawsuit filed by an employee named Maddox against the University of Tennessee. Maddox claimed that the university discriminated against them, though the specific details of the alleged discrimination are not provided in the available information. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination, Failure to Accommodate, Whistleblower. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Failure to Accommodate and Whistleblower.
Published opinions span Tennessee. Tennessee 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. Tennessee rulings.
These published opinions sit within the education sector, where Title IX intersects with Title VII and tenure-revocation cases raise heightened procedural protections.
Claim Types
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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
public court recordsOne row per court+docket case · written opinions stay grouped inside their case · plaintiff names redacted
Other court records naming this party
1 published opinion names this party but is 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.