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Cabral v. US Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an appeal arising from an underlying action brought by a nurse practitioner claiming that defendant-sheriff barred plaintiff from a County House of...

Lowery v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law
In a section 1983 suit brought against a county Board of Education (Board) by the parents of children who were dismissed from a high school football...

Kersey v. Wash. Metro. Area Trans. Auth.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a disability discrimination action alleging that defendant transit authority's refusal to promote plaintiff was the consequence of discrimination...

Bond v. Utreras

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law
An independent journalist's petition for permission to intervene to challenge a protective order that prohibited public disclosure of confidential...

Burke v. County of Alameda

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendants interfered with plaintiffs' constitutional right of familial association by removing their...

Nance v. Sammis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force by the police, denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is affirmed where...

Clemons v. Crawford

Civil Rights
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action challenging the manner in which Missouri's written lethal injection protocol might be implemented in future...

Louie v. BFS Retail & Commercial Operations, LLC.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Health Law
In plaintiff's suit against defendants for violations of California's Disabled Persons Act (DPA), alleging the countertops in defendant's business...

Smith v. Kansas City Police Dep't

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging unlawful entry and excessive force by police, denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity for...

Rohrbough v. Hall

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force by the police, denial of qualified immunity to defendants is affirmed where a jury could...