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A former employee with the Kansas City Public School district has won a wrongful termination lawsuit. The former purchasing director was fired in 2011 after he refused to buy three vehicles that he alleged would not have been used for school district business. Instead the vehicles were to be used for the personal use of employees. According to the man’s…
A woman employed for a quarter century as a chemist testing drugs in the lab for the St. Louis police recently went to trial in her civil suit against the department she accused of firing her over her exposure of another employee’s drug testing errors. The woman, who was fired in 2010, filed a wrongful termination suit, claiming the department…
A Missouri law firm is representing a woman in her lawsuit filed in Jackson County against a company responsible for collecting and analyzing the urine specimens of professional and collegiate athletes. The plaintiff was employed as a vice president for the drug testing company and had been with the company for over a dozen years. According to a New York…
The United States Supreme Court recently declined to hear the case of six undocumented immigrants who sued the owners of Kansas City’s Jerusalem Cafe for violating their rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This leaves in place a lower court’s decision awarding the undocumented laborers unpaid wages of $141,864.04 together with the same award of liquidated damages, after determining…
A St. Louis Circuit Court jury has awarded a former police officer for the City of St. Louis a $7.5 million judgment in the sexual harassment suit she filed after experiencing retaliation for filing a complaint with the department in 2011. The jury’s verdict is against the police board, which is a state agency, and is based on allegations that…
The former parks department director for the City of Willard has filed suit against the city and one of its aldermen in Greene County Circuit Court. In her petition, the woman claims she was wrongfully terminated because of her gender. The woman had previously told a local newspaper that she had been terminated because some of the town’s aldermen believed…
A former corrections commissioner for St. Louis filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in St. Louis against the city. The suit alleges that he was wrongfully terminated because of his race. The former commissioner, who is African-American, was removed from duty in 2011 by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. Later the next year he was officially terminated. He…
A former Missouri school superintendent’s 5-year legal battle against the Liberty public school district concluded with a $950,000 settlement. The settlement agreement was unanimously approved by the district’s board of education on Dec. 24. The former employee will receive $700,000 from the district’s insurer and $250,000 from the district itself. The former administrator had filed a wrongful termination suit in…
Missouri residents may be interested in the recent lawsuit filed in St. Louis circuit court. Former KMOV TV anchorman Larry Conners alleges that age discrimination was the reason he was fired from the station last spring. Conners was fired May and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Conners’ suit alleges that colleagues who were younger received better…
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a Circuit Court judge erred in his judgement and returned part of a harassment case back to the lower courts. The former hospital employee filed a lawsuit after she claimed that she was retaliated against for making a sexual harassment complaint against a doctor. The original lawsuit contained eight counts. Four of those counts…