Following nearly 10 days of witness testimony, a jury in Denton, Texas, has ruled in favor of the Denton Independent School District (ISD), and rejected an ISD para-professional’s claim that he was fired in retaliation for complaining about discrimination. Although the ISD’s termination letter to the para-professional stated that his history of filing meritless

A dental technology company has obtained a $6.8 million judgment against a former employee accused of stealing the company’s designs. The federal district court in Central California entered the judgment after finding the defendant, Jian Lu, liable for stealing trade secrets. Sirona Dental Systems Inc., et al. v. Jian Lu, No. 2:15-cv-08777 (C.D. Cal.

On August 24, 2017 we reported that former communications director for the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus, Kristen Anderson, was awarded $2.2 million in damages by a jury that found Anderson had been fired in retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment and a hostile work environment.

In late September, the parties reached a settlement, pursuant to

On May 16, 2017, we reported that a jury in Davis v. Packer Engineering, Inc., No. 1:11-cv-07923, awarded plaintiffs Danya Davis and Bernessa Wilson each $3 million in punitive damages and $150,000 and $300,000, respectively, in compensatory damages.  In that case, the plaintiffs had alleged, among other things, that their employers subjected them to

A New Jersey jury in the Superior Court of New Jersey for Camden County has awarded former Major League Baseball pitcher Mitchell Williams $1,565,333 in a wrongful termination action he filed against MLB Network, Inc. Mitchell Williams v. The MLB Network, Inc., et al., No. L-3675-14.

Williams, nicknamed “Wild Thing,” played professional baseball from

A California jury in Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, has ruled against an avionics technician, who filed a $6 million whistleblower claim against SpaceX – Elon Musk’s rocket startup company. Blasdell v. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., et al., No. BC615112.

Plaintiff Jason Blasdell alleged that his employment with