all - Opinion Summaries

Mitchell v. Fed. Bureau of Prisons

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's application to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) on appeal, the application is denied where, although plaintiff had only two "strikes"...

EEOC v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In the EEOC's appeal from a denial of its petition to enforce an administrative subpoena issued to UPS seeking information about how religious...

Perez v. Westchester Cty. Dep't of Corr.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights
In appeals from an attorney's fees award in Muslim inmates' civil rights suit arising from defendants' refusal to provide them Halal meat, the fees...

Diffenderfer v. Gomez-Colon

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Elections, Government Law
In plaintiffs' civil rights case against the members of the State Electoral Commission of Puerto Rico challenging the Commission's decision to print...

Jennings v. Jones

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's civil rights case against the state of Rhode Island and a State Police representative and other police officers who had executed a...

Perry v. Prop. 8 Official Proponents

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In an action challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative restricting the definition of marriage to the union of...

Fleming v. Yuma Reg. Med. Ctr.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for employment discrimination based on plaintiff's disability, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where Section 504 of the...

Harman v. Pollock

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendant-officers unlawfully detained plaintiffs and searched their home, summary judgment for...

Couch v. Bd. of Trustees of Mem. Hosp. of Carbon County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendant-hospital board deprived plaintiff-physician of his First Amendment right of free speech...

International Action Ctr. v. New York

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to a New York City regulation banning new parades on Fifth Avenue, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1)...