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Serwatka v. Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's employment discrimination action against her former employer under the ADA, judgment of the district court in favor of the plaintiff is...

Cahvez v. City of Los Angeles

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), court of appeals' reversal of trial court's denial of plaintiff's motion...

Clouthier v. Contra Costa

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that a mental health specialist, two sheriff's deputies, and a county violated the Fourteenth Amendment...

Crowe v. San Diego

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on defendants' investigation and prosecution of plaintiffs-teenagers for a crime of which they were innocent...

Am. Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Grayson County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action by the ACLU against a county challenging a display of the Ten Commandments in a County Fiscal Court, district court's finding that the...

LaFary v. Rogers Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer for age and sex discrimination and retaliation after she was let go for taking more than six months of...

Elliot-Park v. Manglona

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on officers' alleged failure to investigate a crime or arrest the alleged perpetrator because of the race of...

Mattos v. Agarano

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on defendant-officers' use of a Taser on plaintiff, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity...

Richardson v. Runnels

Civil Rights, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action by a prisoner alleging that he was placed in racially discriminatory lockdowns, summary judgment for defendants is...

Lawson v. Sup. Ct.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Inmate's petition for a writ of mandate seeking review of trial court's ruling sustaining demurrers to several of her and her infant daughter's causes...