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Brown v. Callahan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In an action by a decedent's estate against a sheriff for failure to train and supervise the jail's medical employees and for maintaining an...

Byrne v. Rutledge

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action alleging that Vermont’s denial of plaintiff's requested vanity license plate, on the grounds that it contained a religious message in...

Luchtel v. Hagemann

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an action claiming that defendant-officers lacked probable cause to arrest her, and that excessive force was used by the officers, summary judgment...

Palka v. Shelton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former deputy sheriff's section 1983 suit against Cook County, the City of Chicago, a sheriff, and other individuals, claiming that defendants...

Community House, Inc. v. Boise

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against the City of Boise and the Boise City Council, alleging, among other things, that the anticipated lease of a building to a...

Ramirez v. Wong

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Landlord Tenant Law
In two female tenants' suit against their landlord, claiming that the resident manager of their apartment building entered their apartment in their...

Vera v. McHugh

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's Title VII suit claiming that she was sexually harassed by a co-worker and subsequently by a supervisor at a Fort Buchanan Army garrison...

Kelly v. Carlisle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiff's civil rights suit claiming that his First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested for filming a police officer...

Renchenski v. Piazza

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging that his forced participation in sex offender treatment therapy violates several constitutional...

Wilson v. Price

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' suit against a city and an alderman raising claims under 42 U.S.C. sections 1983 and 1985, as well as state law claims for loss of...