The Eighth Circuit covers the federal courts in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The rulings below come from the circuit's court of appeals and the federal trial courts within it.
Of the 1,389 published rulings we track here (1973–2026), the breakdowns below show how they were decided. They describe published opinions only — not the odds of any particular situation.
Of the 1,389 published rulings we track in the Eighth Circuit.
A workplace lawsuit moves through stages, and a ruling can end it at any of them. Here is where the 1,386 rulings we could classify by stage were decided.
A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
Of the 342 summary-judgment rulings here, 214 ended the case in the employer’s favor and 125 let the worker’s claims continue; the rest resolved in other ways.
An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
A judge or jury heard the evidence and reached a decision. Relatively few disputes get this far.
The two sides resolved the dispute by agreement, sometimes with court approval. Most settlements are private and never show up in published opinions.
A decision entered because one side did not respond to the case at all.
Procedural decisions and orders that do not fit the main stages above.
Browse rulings from courts in each state the Eighth Circuit covers.
Kasso
Board of Trustees of Omaha Construction Industry Pension Fund v. Kotas Enterprises, LLC
Johnson v. Short Staffed Inc.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Cloud Area Family YMCA
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council v. Achieving Vision Builders, LLC
Lewis
Navarro
Knight
Covington
Krebsbach
Simon
Brown
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Ranger Tool & Die Inc
Su
Navarro
Johnson v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.
Shustarich
Ahmann
Wulf
Stotesbery
Gibson
Johnson v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.
Norton
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Interventional Pain Management Associates, PLLC
Ramirez
Bush
Kendall
Grandson
Unified System Division, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Union Pacific Railroad Company
Schmit
Bowman
Abarca
Andrews-Byrd
Schreiber
Sanders
Allen
Myers
Dobbins
Krajewski
City Wide Construction Products Company v. Teamsters Local Union No. 245
Howard
Fiorito
Stotesbery
Beukes
Siebrecht
Baldwin
Kasso
Goins
Hardy
Beck
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These figures summarize publicly available published court opinions only. Published opinions over-represent summary-judgment rulings (decisions made without a trial) and appeals, because those are the stages where judges most often write formal opinions. Most workplace disputes settle privately and never appear here at all. A ruling’s outcome reflects many case-specific factors and is not a prediction for any other situation. Read more about how we source and classify rulings.
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 classification of outcomes and case stages is based on automated analysis and may not reflect the full scope of each case.