6,641 employment law court rulings from public federal records (1869–2026)
Retaliation occurs when an employer takes adverse action against an employee for engaging in legally protected activity, such as filing a discrimination complaint, reporting safety violations, or participating in an investigation. Retaliation is the most commonly filed charge with the EEOC. These cases examine whether a causal connection exists between the protected activity and the adverse employment action.
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CIVIL - summary judgment Civ.R. 56(C) employment discrimination R.C. 4112.02(A) disparate treatment retaliation R.C. 4112.02(I) nondiscriminatory and pretextual reasons for termination
summary judgment, Civ.R. 56, App.R. 16(A)(7), disability discrimination, R.C. 4112.02, workers' compensation, retaliation, R.C. 4123.90
A medical product sales representative brought suit against her former employer, a hospital, claiming retaliation in violation of the Tennessee Human Rights Act. After a bench trial, the trial court judge entered a verdict in favor of the hospital, having concluded that the employee failed to carry her burden of proof. In spite of dismissing the employee's case, the trial court awarded the employee a portion of her attorney's fees as "sanctions" against the hospital for making an allegedly late-filed motion to strike the employee's demand for a jury trial, which the trial court granted. We affirm the trial court's dismissal of the employee's retaliation claim, and we reverse the trial court's order granting the employee attorney's fees.
Trial court's Civ.R. 12(B)(6) dismissal of declaratory judgment claim in combined complaint for mandamus and declaratory judgment reversed. Decision on appeal addresses when those two causes of action may be brought in same complaint. Withdrawn administrative appeal by unclassified employee not sufficient to overcome enforcement of former employee's claims by declaratory judgment. Judgment reversed.
The plaintiff, a former firefighter with the City of McMinnville Fire Department, brought this retaliatory discharge claim against his previous employer under the Tennessee Public Protection Act. The City filed a motion for summary judgment arguing that the plaintiff was unable to prove that the City's proffered reason for the discharge was pretextual. Finding no genuine dispute, the trial court granted the motion and dismissed the complaint. We affirm.
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