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Ogden v. Atterholt

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a former employee with the Indiana Department of Insurance claiming that a memo he wrote was protected...

Diamen v. US

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a motion for a "certificate of innocence" in order to pursue a damages claim in the Court of Federal Claims for unjust conviction and...

Lewis v. Tripp

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law
In an action by a chiropractor whose license had been revoked claiming that an administrative search of his office was carried out in violation of his...

H&R Block E. Enters., Inc. v. Morris

Civil Rights, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by a tax preparation firm against a former employee claiming that defendant violated the terms of her employment agreement by soliciting...

Peterson v. Cal.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an action claiming that California Proposition 115 (Prop. 115), the Crime Victims Justice Reform Act, violated plaintiff's constitutional rights...

Fox v. Traverse City Area Pub. Sch. Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former special-education teacher's First Amendment retaliation suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, district court's grant of summary judgment in...

White v. McKinley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Remedies
In a civil rights action challenging plaintiff's prosecution, conviction, re-prosecution, and eventual acquittal for the alleged molestation of his...

Braga v. Hodgson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the county sheriff, alleging that the sheriff's negligent maintenance of the correctional...

Dickerson v. Napolitano

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a civil rights action arising out of plaintiffs' arrests, incarcerations, and prosecutions for attempting to enter a federal building with objects...

Fincher v. Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action alleging that defendant retaliated against plaintiff by failing to investigate her complaint, summary judgment...