Vanderbilt University Medical Center
14 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2016–2026)
2 trusted published court opinions across 2 distinct cases · 3 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Vanderbilt University Medical Center as an employer in 14 distinct federal employment cases between 2016 and 2026.
The most common claims on record were Failure To Accommodate.
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 2 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center appears in 2 trusted published federal employment opinions. The most recent written decision on record:
Mercer v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America (2025) — Defendant Win. An employee sought long-term disability benefits from Unum Life Insurance Company through a plan offered by Vanderbilt University Medical Center. When the insurance company denied the benefits claim, the employee sued, arguing the company failed to reasonably accommodate their situation. Read the ruling.
The published opinion involves a failure to accommodate claim. Browse other failure to accommodate rulings for comparable fact patterns and how courts have ruled. Failure to Accommodate.
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 healthcare sector, where employment disputes commonly involve HIPAA-adjacent retaliation, nursing-license issues, and accommodations under the ADA.
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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.