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Avalos v. Baca

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action based on alleged violations of plaintiff's rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments based on his over-detention and for...

Baribeau v. Minneapolis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action claiming that plaintiff-protesters were seized without probable cause and in retaliation for exercising their First Amendment rights,...

Fairchild v. Liberty Indep. Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendants violated plaintiff's First Amendment rights after firing her from a public school teacher position because they...

D.L. v. Unified Sch. Dist. No. 497

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law
In an action challenging a local school district's conclusion that plaintiff-students were ineligible for special education services, summary judgment...

Carreras v. Sajo Garcia & Partners

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's workplace discrimination and retaliation suit, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) district court acted well within...

Walden v. City of Providence

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by current and former employees, and their families, of the police and fire departments, against defendant-city and several city...

Mora v. Jackson Mem. Found., Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an Age Discrimination in Employment Act action, summary judgment for defendant is vacated and remanded where a reasonable juror could accept that...

Brown v. Ala. Dept. of Trans.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Transportation
In a Title VII action alleging a racially discriminatory failure to promote plaintiff, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed in part where there was...

Bush v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by six minority members of a police department claiming that defendant police supervisor's racially discriminatory conduct and the...

Ernster v. Luxco, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an age discrimination action under federal and state law, judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) the district court's instruction, taken as a...