all - Opinion Summaries

Pollard v. GEO Group, Inc.

Civil Rights
In an action raising Eighth Amendment claims against employees of a private corporation operating a federal prison under contract with the Bureau of...

Miller v. Sanilac County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit claiming various constitutional violations against him during a traffic stop and arrest for several traffic...

Thomas v. Durastanti

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action claiming that a BATF agent violated plaintiff's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures when the agent shot...

Harrington v. Cty. of Suffolk

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 asserting that defendants deprived plaintiffs of a property interest protected by the Due Process...

Sitzes v. City of W. Memphis

Civil Rights
In an action alleging constitutional and state tort claims arising out of a traffic accident in which a police patrol car struck the car driven by...

In re: Metro. Gov of Nashville

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Defendants' petition for a writ of mandamus, arising from plaintiffs' racial discrimination suit against their employer, is granted in part, denied in...

White Oak Prop. Dev., LLC v. Washington Township

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Property Law & Real Estate
In a housing developer's suit against a town and its trustees, alleging various claims of constitutional violations, district court's grant of...

Chaparro v. Ruiz-Hernandez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a group of twenty-two contract employees against a Puerto Rican municipality and its officers, a grant of...

Castro v. US

Civil Rights, Government Law, Immigration Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) alleging that the government's negligence caused the wrongful deportation of plaintiff's son,...

Barnes-Wallace v. San Diego

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action claiming that the Boy Scouts' lease of public lands for its headquarters, accompanied by the Boy Scouts' prohibitions on atheism and...