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Riggan Law Firm Files Disability Discrimination Lawsuit on Behalf of Veteran Helicopter Pilot Dec 23

On December 22, 2015, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, an employment law firm located in St. Louis, Missouri, filed an employment discrimination lawsuit on behalf of its client, a veteran helicopter pilot, against Air Evac EMS, Inc. d/b/a Air Evac Lifeteam . The suit alleges that the ...

Eighth Circuit: Hospital Technician with Epilepsy Not "Qualified Individual" Under ADA or Missouri Law Sep 29
In a recent decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for Capital ...
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Russ Riggan Quoted in Post-Dispatch Article About Obesity & Disability Discrimination Jul 25
In an on-line article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on July 30, 2013, Russ Riggan, an attorney with Riggan Law Firm, LLC in St. Louis, was quoted on ...
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Taxi Driver Wins Disability Discrimination Case Jun 08
On April 16, 2013, the Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri issued a decision in favor of a taxicab driver in the disability ...
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Plaintiff Wins Disability Discrimination Trial; Judge Adds Damages to Jury's Verdict May 10
On April 9, 2013, the Missouri Supreme Court issued its decision in Badahman v. Catering St. Louis, et al . In that case, Catering St. Louis (CSL) ...
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Disabled Employee Wins Jury Trial; Reduction of Attorneys' Fees Was Error Apr 21
In a recent Missouri Court of Appeals decision , the appellate court reversed and remanded the trial court's calculation of the winning plaintiff's ...
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Deaf Lifeguard to Receive Jury Trial on Whether Employer Reasonably Accommodated His Disability Feb 06
People realize that not everyone is alike; some people are tall, some people have blue eyes, some people are deaf. Nicholas Keith just happened to be ...
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Court Rejects Application of Religious Exemption to St. Louis Archdiocese and Cardinal Ritter Senior Services, Allows Disability Discrimination Lawsuit to Proceed Sep 03
As indicated in a previous post a few months ago, Riggan Law Firm, LLC , a St. Louis employment law firm filed a disability discrimination lawsuit on ...
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