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Rodriguez-Machado v. Shinseki

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's appeal of the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant in her suit against her former employer for...

Pouncil v. Tilton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's suit claiming that denial by prison officials of his request for a conjugal visit with his wife violated the Religious Land Use and...

Slater v. Clarke

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiffs' civil rights suit against several Massachusetts officials allegedly responsible for not extraditing a murderer in the months prior to...

City of Los Angeles v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law
A county's petition for a writ of mandate challenging the trial court's grant of an attorney's petition for a writ of mandate seeking disclosure under...

McElwee v. County of Orange

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In appeal from summary judgment dismissing plaintiff's claims under the American with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, judgment is...

Barbour v. City of White Plains

Civil Rights, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure
In appeal by defendant-city and defendant-officers of attorneys' fees award to plaintiffs in connection with entry of judgment for plaintiffs in 1983...

Cruz v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Civil Rights, ERISA, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' suit against their former employer asserting, inter alia, federal claims under ERISA, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA),...

Lefemine v. Wideman

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In plaintiffs' section 1983 suit against several police officers alleging that the prohibition of carrying pictures of aborted fetuses during their...

W. Washington Properties, LLC. v. California Dep't of Transp.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation
In plaintiff's suit challenging the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) finding that plaintiff's advertising display was in violation...

Akhtar v. Mesa

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's civil rights suit alleging deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, district court's dismissal of the complaint is vacated...