Employment Law Court Rulings

Kenneth Jolicoeur, a part-time faculty member at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and a member of the American Association of University Professors, Part-Time Faculty United union (the union), was assigned two courses and a "Special Programs Contract" for the fall 2013 semester. URI then…

Planned community, fiduciary duty, R.C. 1702.30(B), Fair Housing Amendments Act, reasonable accommodation, restrictive covenants.

Discharge just cause unemployment benefits Review Commission appeal manifest weight of the evidence, evidence supported in record. Judgment reversed. The Review Commission's decision is not supported by the evidence in the record. The claimant was an 11-year employee at the YMCA without any…

The plaintiff, C.D., a minor, was a resident of Mountain Youth Academy, a traumafocused residential treatment facility,1 when he got into a physical altercation with an employee of the defendant Keystone Continuum, LLC doing business as Mountain Youth Academy. The employee, Jacob Spencer, is…

This case involves the dismissal of a Tennessee Human Rights Act (THRA) action filed by Jamal Watson against the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) and Pellissippi State Community College (PSCC) (collectively the defendants). PSCC offered Watson a fulltime, tenure-track position, but subsequently…

Where the plaintiff-appellant does not file a transcript of jury trial proceedings as part of the record in appealing the jury's determination and the trial court's judgments on the verdict and denying a new trial, assignments of error such as they may purport to exist in the brief must be…