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Brown v. Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that an officer used excessive force, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where, because plaintiff...

Sandra T.E. v. S. Berwyn Sch. Dist. 100

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a law firm's appeal from the district court's order requiring it to produce documents it created in an internal investigation of a school district,...

Napoli v. New Windsor

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendants retaliated against plaintiff for exercising his First Amendment rights, defendants' appeal...

Santiago v. Walls

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a pro se action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against certain officers and employees of the Illinois correctional department alleging that they had...

Brooks v. Seattle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action against a city and its police officers claiming the officers used excessive force when they tased plaintiff three times to effect her...

King v. Iowa Dept. of Corrs.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action by a prisoner claiming that he was unlawfully ordered to clean up effluents after a clogged toilet in one of the cells caused a floor...

Valdivia v. Schwarzenegger

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies
In proceedings related to a November 2003 injunction based on a stipulation between plaintiff and a class of similarly situated California parolees,...

Williams v. Jackson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In an Eighth Amendment claim against a prison maintenance supervisor and three correction officers alleging that they willfully and maliciously...

Felder v. King

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging an unlawful police shooting, defendants' appeal from a denial of qualified immunity is dismissed where the...

EEOC v. Kelly Servs., Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by the EEOC alleging that defendant employment agency discriminated against a Muslim by failing to refer her to an employer because of...