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Fairley v. Andrews

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a case involving prison guards' suit against other guards, complaint handlers, sheriff, and a County, after plaintiffs' peers allegedly threatened...

Jan McRaven v. Lt. McMurrian

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a civil rights case brought by a prisoner claiming deliberate indifference to his medical need, denial of qualified immunity to the defendants is...

Swanson v. Mountain View

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that traffic police for a town issued tickets for infractions committed outside the town's boundaries,...

Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination case under the Rehabilitation Act, the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint is vacated and remanded...

Okin v. Cornwall-on-Hudson

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendants-officers permitted plaintiff's partner to abuse her, summary judgment for certain...

Hanes v. Zurick

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In a civil rights case claiming police denied plaintiff and only plaintiff equal protection of the law (based on personal animus), district court's...

Rodriguez v. Plymouth Ambulance Service, et. al.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case alleging violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment against private entities under 42 U.S.C....

Pueschel v. Peters

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action alleging interference with plaintiff's application for workers' compensation benefits, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where:...

EEOC v. Boeing Co.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In a sex discrimination action by the EEOC, summary judgment for defendant-employer is reversed where the EEOC introduced adequate evidence from which...

Scott v. Ambani

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action alleging medical negligence by physicians who treated a prisoner, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed in part where plaintiff's...