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This database contains 142,000+ federal and state court rulings related to employment law, spanning from 1964 to present. Every ruling includes the case name, filing date, court, docket number, and — where available — the outcome, damages awarded, employer involved, and specific claims raised.
You can search by keyword, filter by federal statute (Title VII, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, and more), narrow by date range, and click into any ruling for the full details and related cases. Each ruling links to the original source on CourtListener for verification.
The complainant, H, filed a complaint with the plaintiff, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, alleging housing discrimination on the basis of race against the defendant C, her neighbor in a condominium complex, who tormented H by repeatedly making obscene gestures, directing vile, racial epithets toward her, and threatening her. C was defaulted in the underlying administrative proceeding, and, following a hearing in damages, the human rights referee found that H had suffered emotional distress and awarded her $15,000 in damages. The commis- sion, viewing the award as insufficient, appealed to the Superior Court, claiming that, under Patino v. Birken Mfg. Co. (304 Conn. 679), an award for garden-variety emotional distress damages presumptively must be at least $30,000, and that the referee made various errors of law in assessing the heinousness of C's conduct pursuant to the test that the commission adopted in its prior decision in Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities ex rel. Harrison v. Greco (Harrison). The trial court, recognizing that it was bound by the highly deferential standard of review that governs administrative decisions, concluded that there was no legal basis for it to second-guess the award, and it rendered judgment dismissing the appeal. The Appellate Court affirmed the trial court's judgment, concluding that Patino did not adopt any presumptive floor for emotional distress damages and that the referee's heavily fact- specific assessment of H's emotional distress damages was not an abuse of discretion. On the granting of certification, the commission appealed to this court. Held: 1. There was no merit to the commission's claim that the referee's award of $15,000 in damages violated Patino, an employment discrimination case in which this court upheld a jury award of more than $90,000 in noneconomic damages for garden-variety emotional distress: In Patino, the court cited to a series of cases in which awards of $100,000 or more had b
Summary Judgment, No-duty Winter Rule Natural Accumulation Public Policy. Trial court correctly granted summary judgment when plaintiff slipped and fell on a natural accumulation of snow and ice in January in Ohio. Company policy to salt the walks when employees have time did not create a greater duty under the law.
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This database indexes 142,000+ employment law court rulings from federal district courts, circuit courts of appeals, and state courts across the United States. Cases cover the full spectrum of employment law claims, including Title VII discrimination, ADA accommodation disputes, FMLA retaliation, FLSA wage and hour violations, wrongful termination, whistleblower protections, and more.
All rulings are sourced from CourtListener, a project of the Free Law Project (501(c)(3) nonprofit). We ingest new rulings daily through automated feeds, then classify each ruling by employment law statute, claim type, outcome, and employer using a combination of keyword matching and AI-assisted extraction.
Use the search and filters above to find rulings relevant to your situation. You can search by case name, employer, or keyword, then filter by statute and date range. Click any ruling to see the full details, including outcome, damages, related laws, and similar cases. If you find a ruling involving your employer, visit their employer profile to see their full complaint history.
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