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Myers v. Trendwest Resorts, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action against her former employer for sexual harassment under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, judgment in favor of the employer...

Bowling v. Rector

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging an unlawful search, denial of summary judgment for defendant based on qualified immunity is affirmed in...

Oliver v. Fiorino

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

Leibowitz v. Cornell Univ.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a gender and age discrimination action by an employee of a university, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed in part where plaintiff failed...

Long v. Teachers' Ret. Sys. of State of Illinois

Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's employment discrimination and retaliation action against her former employer, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where,...

Brunker v. Schwan's Home Serv., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
In plaintiff's disability discrimination action against his former employer, district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the...

Lone Star Sec. & Video, Inc. v. Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging the improper towing of plaintiff's vehicles under an ordinance that plaintiff contended was preempted by...

McSherry v. Long Beach

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising from the faulty imprisonment of now-exonerated plaintiff for almost fourteen years, summary judgment for...

Hall v. Spencer County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
District court's finding that plaintiffs' new claims in their amended complaint were time-barred under the applicable Kentucky statute of limitations...

Merryfield v. Jordan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action concerning the conditions of plaintiff's involuntary confinement at a state hospital, dismissal of the complaint is...