all - Opinion Summaries

Pickup v. Brown

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
California Senate Bill 1172, which bans state-licensed mental health providers from engaging in "sexual orientation change efforts" with patients...

Wynar v. Douglas County School District

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Summary judgment for defendant-school district in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 by plaintiffs, a high school student and his father,...

E.R.K. v. State of Hawaii Department of Education

Civil Rights, Education Law
The district court's judgment for defendant-state in a class action suit challenging a Hawaii statute that established an age limit on public...

Gonzalez v. City of Schenectady

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment for defendant-officers on plaintiff's 1983 action alleging false arrest and visual body cavity search that was determined to be...

Town of Nags Head v. Toloczko

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The district court's decision to abstain from deciding federal and state law claims concerning the legality of efforts by the plaintiff-town to...

Small v. Whittick

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Dismissal of plaintiff-inmate's civil rights action alleging incidents that included the use of excessive force, the denial of medical treatment, and...

Waugh Chapel South, LLC v. United Food and Commercial Workers

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of plaintiffs' action under the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) alleging that defendants orchestrated fourteen separate legal...

Hazle v. Crofoot

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action in which plaintiff, an atheist, alleged that his constitutional rights were violated when his parole was revoked after he...

Askins v. City of New York

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's claims of false arrest and malicious prosecution against defendant-city and defendant-officers is: 1) affirmed in part, where...

Montana Shooting Sports Association v. Holder

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's action challenging federal firearms regulations is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiff Marbut, who wants to manufacture firearms...