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Milwaukee Deputy Sheriff's Ass'n v. Clarke

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming retaliation in violation of the First Amendment, district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1)...

Catlin v. City of Wheaton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights action for false arrest and excessive force, summary judgment for defendants based on qualified immunity is affirmed where: 1)...

Hobbs v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action, district court judgment is affirmed where: 1) for purposes of plaintiff's race and gender discrimination...

Huppert v. Pittsburg

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant city violated the First Amendment by disciplining plaintiff police officers based on their...

Burke v. McDonald

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Remedies
In a civil rights action brought under the Fourth Amendment, district court judgment is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not abuse its...

Robinson-Reeder v. Am. Coun. on Educ.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a Title VII action alleging that Defendant racially discriminated against Plaintiff in placing her on probation, Plaintiff's appeal is dismissed,...

Mays v. Springborn

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner civil rights action, rulings against plaintiff are affirmed in part where: 1) plaintiff did not present evidence to call into question...

Moss v. US Secret Serv.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a Bivens action claiming that Defendant Secret Service agents violated plaintiffs' First Amendment rights when they ordered the relocation of a...

Hopkins v. Bonvicino

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on an unlawful search, the denial of defendants' summary judgment motion based on qualified immunity is...

Giles v. Kearney

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a prisoner civil rights action alleging excessive force and deliberate indifference to medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment, summary...