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Robinson v. Cook

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In claims against defendant-city and officers arising out of charges for a hit and run accident that were later dismissed, summary judgment for...

Brown v. Town of Cary

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In 1983 action, district court's summary judgment for plaintiff invalidating defendant's municipal sign ordinance, as applied to plaintiff, is...

Furnace v. Sullivan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In 1983 action by plaintiff-prisoner alleging violations of the Eighth Amendment for excessively pepper spraying him, and the Fourteenth Amendment for...

D.L. v. Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In action for education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed, where: 1) Section...

PG Publishing Co. v. Aichele

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Media Law
In 1983 action challenging statute that restricted access to a polling place as an infringement on the media's First Amendment right to gather news,...

McCullen v. Coakley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In 1983 action and First Amendment challenge to Massachusetts statute that fixes a thirty-five-foot buffer zone around the entrances, exits, and...

B.S. v. Somerset County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In 1983 action against defendant county and its employees by Mother claiming violation of her constitutional rights when they secured and effectuated...

Furtado v. State Personnel Board

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In appeal from a judgment denying plaintiff's petition for a writ of mandate to have the California State Personnel Board (SPB) set aside its order...

Dwight R. v. Christy B.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Family Law, Juvenile Law
In 1983 action by plaintiff father against defendant therapist for reporting her suspicion that plaintiff was sexual abusing his daughters that he...

Peralta v. Dillard

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In 1983 action against defendant prison dentist alleging deliberate indifference to plaintiff-prisoner's medical needs related to his dental care,...