by admin | Jun 12, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
Two weeks after being fired by the Lafayette Parish School Board last November, former superintendent Pat Cooper filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the district. A court date has now officially been set for the week of September 21. The claim was filed...
by admin | Jun 12, 2015 | Discrimination, Wrongful Termination
Nasty Gal, a recently launched for-women, by-women fashion company, is facing a multi-person wrongful termination lawsuit after allegedly firing four of its pregnant employees after they took maternity leave. The state of California, where Nasty Gal is...
by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
Former police-union president Brian Wurts and the Lakewood Police Department just reached a $150,000 out-of-court settlement over a wrongful termination suit that had been ongoing for much of the past year. Back in 2012, Skeeter Manos, the union's...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
A Phoenix, Arizona, judge recently threw out a wrongful termination suit filed by five ex-Child Protective Services employees who were fired last year. According to their former employer, Department of Child Safety (DCS) director Charles Flanagan, the workers...
by admin | Apr 29, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
Less than two years since its launch, the cable news network Al Jazeera America finds itself the target of a wrongful termination lawsuit levying accusations of gender discrimination and anti-Semitism.The New York Times reports that the lawsuit was filed by the...
by admin | Apr 13, 2015 | Wrongful Termination
An ex-Blue Shield of California executive has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the health insurance company, accusing his former employer of firing him for recommending against an expensive contract — and doing so just one day before he was set...