Western Illinois University
8 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2013–2022)
4 trusted published court opinions across 4 distinct cases
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Western Illinois University as an employer in 8 distinct federal employment cases between 2013 and 2022.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Harassment, and Hostile Work Environment.
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 4 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Western Illinois University appears in 4 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Blue v. Western Illinois University (2022) — Mixed Result. An employee named Blue filed a lawsuit against Western Illinois University and a defendant named Boyd, claiming discrimination, harassment, and a hostile work environment. Blue also raised claims under federal civil rights laws, age discrimination law, and state laws covering gender violence and emotional distress. Read the ruling.
Bjelica v. Western Illinois University (2021) — Defendant Win. This case involved an employment dispute between an employee named Bjelica and Western Illinois University. The specific details of what triggered the disagreement between the worker and the university are not available in the court records provided. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination, Harassment, Hostile Work Environment. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Harassment and Hostile Work Environment.
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.
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
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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.