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Merchant v. Bauer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a case that included a claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for deprivation of the plaintiff's Fourth Amendment right to freedom from seizure without...

Crowley v. Nevada

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
In a case in which an unsuccessful candidate for county justice of the peace sued the state and county clerk in federal district court, alleging they...

Buckwalter v. Nevada Board of Medical Examiners

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 brought by a doctor against members of a state medical board in their individual capacities, alleging that the...

Balla v. Idaho

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which a law firm sought an award of fees under the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act in part for representing a class of prisoners in...

Gonzalez v. Arizona

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a challenge to Arizona Proposition 200, which contained a registration provision and a polling place provision requiring certain forms of...

Filarsky v. Delia

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against defendants who included an attorney hired by a city for an internal affairs investigation of the...

Terranova v. New York

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a suit under 42 USC section 1983 for violation of the appellants' Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure through the use of...

Elena v. Municipality of San Juan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute between neighbors over the destruction of trees and other vegetation, which caused the plaintiffs to sue their neighbors and the...

Samper v. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a neo-natal intensive care unit nurse's reasonable accommodation claim against her employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the district...

Morales-Cruz v. University of Puerto Rico

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII suit against a university and university officials for gender-based employment discrimination, the district court's grant of the...