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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.
<bold>1. Workers' Compensation — compensable injury — professional</bold> <bold>football player</bold> <block_quote> The Industrial Commission did not err by finding that a professional football player sustained a compensable injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment where his leg was broken and ankle tendons torn when other players fell on the back of his leg during a game. There was evidence to support the Commission's findings that the injury was unusual.</block_quote> <bold>2. Workers' Compensation — disability — professional football</bold> <bold>player — reason for being released from team — personal</bold> <bold>knowledge</bold> <block_quote> The trial court did not err by allowing plaintiff, a football player, to testify about the reason for his termination from a team. Plaintiff offered personal knowledge about why he was released and his testimony was not hearsay.</block_quote> <bold>3. Workers' Compensation — disability — injured professional</bold> <bold>football player — return with another team — eventual</bold> <bold>release</bold> <block_quote> The Industrial Commission did not err in a workers' compensation case by awarding compensation to a professional football player who was injured while playing with defendant, then returned to play with another team. While plaintiff did try out for and make the other team, he was released from that team because of injuries suffered with defendant.</block_quote> <bold>4. Workers' Compensation — disability — professional football</bold> <bold>player — dollar-for-dollar credits</bold> <block_quote> The Industrial Commission did not abuse its discretion in a workers' compensation disability case by awarding a time credit rather than a dollar-for-dollar credit for payments made by defendants to plaintiff, a professional football player, after he was injured. Dollar-for-dollar credits are precluded by North Carolina law.</block_quote><page_number>Page 530</page_numb
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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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