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Oral argument — Anne Guthrie v. Coal Bed Services Inc.

Oral argument · Oral argument · May 6, 2025

Toxie was the acting supervisor that day. He pulls up in a company truck and says, hey, you're going to wash my truck next. … Williams' response to the plaintiffs' complaints of discrimination, when they called their acting supervisor, James Toxey, racist.

Oral argument — Paul Parker v. BNSF Railway Company

Oral argument · Oral argument · Mar 19, 2025

It's under the Whistleblower Protection Act. It's under the Office of Special Counsel. … In this case, under the FRSA, one of the protected activities is refusing to or refusing to not do like a safety act, and here he refused to stop conducting the air brake test.

Oral argument — Ashima James v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jul 31, 2014

Then what happened is she actually went back to work for a period of time, was having difficulties, and went out again. … And your very first comment to Counsel for Liberty, I think, is probably the most salient comment that I could make right now, and that is it doesn't matter because if this is a comorbid situation, which

Oral argument — Ninth Inning Inc. v. National Football League, Inc

Oral argument · Oral argument · Mar 9, 2026

And so I think he acted well within his discretion in excluding Dr. Rasher, and I'm happy to talk about Dr. … I would say that's an abuse of discretion, and I would say he acted well within the abuse of discretion.

Oral argument — Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 9, 2013

The listener is TSA or a reasonable air safety official. … And it's not whether TSA would have acted differently.

Oral argument — Mark W. Tetzlaff v. Educational Credit Management

Oral argument · Oral argument · Apr 22, 2015

Good faith only requires that a debtor perform certain acts, as case law has sufficiently defined as a matter of law. … You'd rather just start cleaning than make money.

Oral argument — Coons v. Secretary of Treasury

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 6, 2003

I believe it's in the fact that he, his doctor ordered him off of work for the period June until August, and he could not work during that period of time. … Off of that job for a temporary period, but that's not evidence that he could not work, period. He couldn't do that job for a limited period of time. Right.

Oral argument — United States v. Linda Todd

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jun 5, 2018

Todd had flunked out of drug treatment, couldn't get clean, so everybody talked about drug treatment and addiction. … The second comment about the 24-7 supervision is jail time.

Oral argument — Pina v. MSPB

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 4, 2008

Typically, our cases, you know, intolerable working condition cases show a pattern of improper conduct by the agency over a period of time. … But the charges were inappropriate conduct in how he acted on March 22nd, and the charge was threatening- That wasn't my question.

Oral argument — Mercado v. Hyannis Air Service, Inc.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Mar 6, 2025

Counsel, after your client completed the period available to him under the Family Leave Act, didn't a substantial additional time pass before the company even made any effort to assure themselves that … So there's about a three-month period which transpires in which from the time you're indicating that the Family Leave Act expired to the point that he was actually terminated.

Oral argument — Cohn v. Costco

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 5, 2003

And there's ample evidence in the record of all his efforts to do that, you know, accepting jobs that are essentially demotions, that are cuts in pay, cleaning up boxes. … We agree with Judge Burson's earlier comments about if there's any evidence that supports the verdict, it should be approved.

Oral argument — United States v. Richard Graham

Oral argument · Oral argument · Sep 23, 2020

Graham that you were acting in good faith, when the district court said you can't even ask Walker if he was acting in good faith. You can't say, Mr. Walker, did you tell Mr. … But those don't appear out of thin air, do they? I'm sorry, Your Honor? A lien doesn't appear out of thin air. Doesn't something have to precede it?

Oral argument — People v. McNulty

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 30, 2025

About three weeks later, the testimony was a little bit vague on the exact time period, she calls the law enforcement officer and says, I am now ready to make a statement. … Well, it does, Your Honor, because the whole point is you can't use specific act. I mean, specific act impeachment is prohibited in Illinois. That's the law.

Oral argument — Facebook, Inc. v. Windy City Innovations, LLC

Oral argument · Oral argument · Aug 7, 2019

What would preclude you from within that one-year period? Here's what you did. You filed a motion to expedite. It was denied. You then petitioned within the one-year period. … I always wanted the agency to have a way to clean up its act, and that's what we have. But it may be under some circumstances it just isn't available. I don't know.

Oral argument — Relator, LLC v. iLink Employers Company

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 10, 2025

So there's control person liability under the Securities Act. But this is about—is there—do you have a case that says the False Claims Act— My apologies, Your Honor. … Just briefly to clean up what we were discussing with respect to the $100,000. It's 15 U.S.C.

Oral argument — United States v. Garrett Lott

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 24, 2019

You don't have to have so much a clean purpose, but you do have to have an actual traffic violation, and then you can pull someone over. … Williams, I know you accepted the representation here under the Criminal Justice Act, and we know you do that as a service to the court and our system of justice.

Oral argument — Nunez v. Dr. Duncan

Oral argument · Oral argument · May 6, 2009

But act as if they don't know what's in the BP-8? No. And I don't believe they didn't act that way. They simply wanted to answer his response because Mr. … He was cleaning the lobby area and the visitor's center, which is a prime place, and that's why there's a concern for contraband to be left in that area.

Oral argument — Teresa Reyes Villanueva v. William Barr

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 16, 2020

Respectfully, Your Honor, when Hector was imprisoned, the petitioner was not harmed physically by him during that period of time. … Let me just second Judge Boo's comment. We thank Mr. Wolf for donating his time selflessly in this manner. I appreciate it.

Oral argument — James Lyons v. FAA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 14, 2016

If the agency denies the petition and says we're not going to act or they act in a way you don't like, then you challenge that. … And assumed a growth in number of flights over a period of time. It may have been a wrong assumption, but put that aside. It did assume a growth in a number of flights.

Oral argument — Armour Robinson v. Nexion Health at Terrell, Inc.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Aug 30, 2016

This case presents the question of how the Fair Labor Standards Act allocates the burden of proving unpaid time. Fortunately, this Court does not write on a clean slate in answering this question. … When you look at the relevant time period, she averaged clocking out 41 minutes past the end of her shift.