Employment Law Court Rulings

This appeal arises from the trial court's award of attorneys' fees to three state employee defendants. The plaintiff, also a state employee, sued the defendants in their individual and official capacities related to the plaintiff's termination from his employment. The defendants moved to dismiss…

This appeal arises from an action for declaratory judgment as to the ownership of a business, defamation, and tortious interference with business relations. The plaintiff carpet cleaner alleged that the defendant entrepreneur and his wife loaned money to the plaintiff to expand his carpet cleaning…

The plaintiff in this action is a retired employee of the defendant county. She filed a complaint in October 2009, asserting claims of negligence, breach of contract, intentional or negligent misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty related to a county employee's alleged faulty advice and…

The trial court granted a default judgment to the plaintiff in March 2009, which judgment invalidated a deed for real property transferred from the plaintiff to her son and daughterin- law. The trial court subsequently set aside the default judgment without making sufficient findings of fact and…

R.C. was committed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) after being found incompetent to proceed in a criminal case. A CMHIP staff psychiatrist diagnosed R.C. with bipolar disorder mania with psychosis and treated him with Zyprexa. Following R.C.'s assault of a CMHIP staff…

This interlocutory appeal involves a discovery dispute. G.G., an eighth-grade student, was expelled from Boyd-Buchanan School after he sent sexually explicit messages to a female student on a social media platform. G.G. and his mother, Jackie Johnson, filed a complaint against Boyd-Buchanan School…

Wrongful death survivorship medical malpractice standard of care causation magistrate Civ.R. 53. Plaintiff was the surviving spouse of a decedent who suffered a pulmonary embolism six days after he was discharged from defendant's hospital. The pulmonary embolism ultimately led to decedent's death,…

The common pleas court erred in granting appellee's motion to compel arbitration where the merits of the grievance filed by appellee were already decided in a past arbitration and appellee is not entitled to have the matter resubmitted to arbitration because it missed the timeframe for requesting…

Kimber Halliburton, the director of the Washington County Board of Education, notified Stacia Howard, a non-tenured teacher, that her employment contract would not be renewed. The Washington County board did not review the director's decision because the board's attorney believed that the board…

The plaintiff appealed a judgment from the Superior Court granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants. According to Automatic Temperature Controls (ATC), the plaintiff's former employer, in June 2011, the company installed tracking software on the plaintiff's work computer after child…

This is an appeal of an employer's Petition for Judicial Review, which challenged a ruling by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development that the employer's former employee was entitled to unemployment benefits. The employer contended the employee was ineligible for benefits…

he defendants, the Town of Johnston, the Johnston School Department, the Johnston School Committee, and various municipal officials (the town), appealed from the Superior Court's entry of summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, Rhode Island American Federation of Teachers/Retired Local 8307…