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Anthoine v. N. Central Counties Consortium

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendant terminated plaintiff public employee for reporting to management that his immediate supervisor had misrepresented...

Lewis v. Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action challenging Chicago's practice of selecting only applicants who scored 89 or above on a written examination because of its...

Maqaleh v. Gates

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Military Law
In habeas petitions by detainees at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the district court's denial of defendants' motions to dismiss is reversed...

Johnston v. Maha

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a civil rights action regarding the conditions of plaintiff-inmate's confinement, plaintiff's motion for appointment of counsel in his appeal of a...

Meza v. Livingston

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a civil rights action for violations of plaintiff's right to due process after defendants attached sex offender conditions to plaintiff's mandatory...

Carmichael v. Village of Palatine

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against police officers and their employer claiming unreasonable search and seizure, false arrest and...

Torgerson v. City of Rochester

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action against a fire department claiming that defendant refused to hire plaintiffs for national origin and gender reasons, summary...

Gorelik v. Costin

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the president of the New Hampshire State Board of Medicine, arising from the Board's...

Rodriguez v. Maricopa Cty. Cmty. Coll. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action claiming that defendant public university administrators failed to take immediate or appropriate steps to prevent a professor...

Green v. Drug Enf. Admin.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In plaintiffs' appeal from the district court's dismissal of their claim that the DEA lacked jurisdiction over property the DEA seized from plaintiffs...