all - Opinion Summaries

Ryburn v. Huff

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action under 42 USC section 1983 alleging that police officers violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights by entering their home without a...

Lebron v. Rumsfeld

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Military Law
In a suit by a prisoner and his mother seeking a declaration that government defendants’ policies were unconstitutional, an order enjoining his future...

Bullock v. Napolitano

Labor & Employment Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In racial discrimination action against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,...

Massachusetts Delivery Ass'n v. Coakley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a civil rights suit brought in federal court against the Massachusetts Attorney General by a business trade association asserting that a state law...

Alvarez v. Hill

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a suit by a former prisoner alleging that Oregon Department of Corrections employees substantially burdened the practice of his religion in...

Perry v. Perez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In cases challenging redistricting plans in Texas for race discrimination under the federal Constitution and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,...

US v. Venable

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a federal prosecution for possessing a firearm while being a felon, in which the defendant moved for discovery and moved to dismiss the indictment...

Ayala-Sepulveda v. Municipality of San German

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit under 42 USC section 1983 alleging an employer's sex discrimination and retaliation in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the...

Hydrick v. Hunter

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying defendants qualified immunity against plaintiffs' Section 1983 claims for money damages and...

Bonneau v. Centennial School District No. 28J

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff's Section 1983 complaint under Oregon's Rev. Stat. section 12.117(1) as...