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Spears v. Ruth

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought by the family of an individual who died eleven months after being in police custody for public intoxication, denial of a summary...

George v. California Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's employment discrimination and retaliation suit against defendant-agency for being suspended as an administrative law judge on three...

WWBITV, Inc. v. Vill. of Rouses Point

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising out of the demolition of plaintiffs' building by defendant village after a fire, summary judgment for...

Ewing v. City of Stockton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging violations of plaintiffs' constitutional rights arising out of the search of their home and the arrest of...

Jones v. Richards-Cantave

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Family Law
In an appeal from an order approving a settlement agreement in a class action challenging policies adopted by the New York City Administration for...

Patterson v. Indiana Newspapers, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' suit against their former employer alleging employment discrimination on the basis of their religious belief that homosexual conduct is...

Alvarez v. Smith

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case involving whether Illinois law provides a sufficiently speedy opportunity for an individual, whose car or cash police...

Milam v. Dominick's Finder Foods, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In six black produce clerks' racial discrimination suit against their employer alleging that the company classified two white women as produce clerks...

Srail v. Village of Lisle

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Water Law
In plaintiffs' class action suit against an Illinois town and a subdivision therein alleging violation of the Equal Protection Clause and state...

Duch v. Jakubek

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a sex discrimination action claiming that defendant-supervisor should have prevented the harassment of plaintiff taking place, summary judgment for...