all - Opinion Summaries

H.B. Rowe Co. Inc. v. Tippett

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a contractor's suit challenging a North Carolina statute that requires prime contractors to engage in good faith efforts to satisfy participation...

Stilp v. Contino

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In a government watchdog's section 1983 suit, challenging the constitutionality of a statute mandating confidentiality in proceedings before the State...

Bowers v. Wynne

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In a federal civilian employee's suit against the Secretary of the Air Force, claiming gender and disability discrimination as well as retaliatory...

Brandt v. Winnetka

Elections, Government Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 seeking a declaratory judgment that a village ordinance violated the First Amendment by "chilling"...

McGowan v. Hulick

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action by a prisoner claiming that a dentist who extracted his molar, the prison's dental director, the regular prison...

Chaney v. Plainfield Healthcare Ctr.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action claiming that a nursing home's practice of acceding to the racial biases of its residents was illegal and created a hostile work...

S. Carolina Green Party v. S. Carolina State Election Comm'n

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an action by an individual and the South Carolina Green Party challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina's "sore-loser" statute, as...

Brown v. N. Carolina Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendants-correctional officers were deliberately indifferent to the serious harm he suffered at...

Conn v. Western Placer Unif. Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against a school district under the Reporting by School Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Act) by a former teacher in...

Langford v. Norris

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action by inmates under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against various defendants, including several current and former Arkansas Department of...