all - Opinion Summaries

World Wide Street Preachers Fellowship v. Columbia

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant city and officers wrongfully interfered with anti-abortion protests, judgment for...

Levy v. Lexington County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In plaintiffs' action challenging a district's method of electing school board members claiming that the election process dilutes the voting strength...

Hendrickson v. Cooper

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against an officer at a prison facility claiming that the officer attacked him without justification,...

Tuccio v. Marconi

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that a town selectman violated plaintiff's right to petition the government under the First Amendment by...

Turkmen v. Ashcroft

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Immigration Law
In an action claiming abuse, mistreatment, and detention of Arab and Muslim aliens who were held on immigration violations in the wake of the...

Akins v. Epperly

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant-officers inadequately investigated an incident in which plaintiff was shot by another...

Hoog-Watson v. Guadalupe Cty.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant-officers conducted a warrantless search of plaintiff's property and seized her animals,...

Mosher v. Nelson

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In plaintiffs' civil rights action brought following the death of their son against a facility operated by the Massachusetts Department of Corrections...

Pro's Sports Bar & Grill, Inc. v. City of Country Club Hills

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
In a dispute between a bar and a city over a liquor license with hours restrictions, grant of a preliminary injunction based on a due process claim is...

Vasquez v. Starks

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that, in two separate incidents, Kansas state authorities falsely arrested plaintiff and filed falsified...