Wal-Mart also settled with three other Jacksonville union supporters who the labor board said had been improperly dismissed.

On November 22, 2010, a superior court judge ruled that Jones was improperly dismissed, and that Jones should receive back salary and attorney fees.

One month later, Mr. Johnson sued Mr. Pataki, saying that he had been improperly dismissed.

Judge Robert L. Carter of Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled on Oct. 27 that the state had improperly dismissed more than 5,000 complaints of racial, sexual and other bias.

The resulting court case found that he was improperly dismissed.

Mergentime/Perini sued WMATA, claiming that it was improperly dismissed from the project.

"The board felt the teachers were improperly dismissed and we reinstated them as soon as we learned what had happened," he said.

The suit charges that the couple's challenge to the rezoning of the site to permit a 30-story residential tower was improperly dismissed by a lower court and denied the couple due process.

If EEOC finds the complaint was dismissed improperly, EEOC remands the complaint to the agency for further processing.