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Jones v. Caruso

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
In a First Amendment challenge to a prison policy prohibiting the receipt of certain Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) materials by prisoners, a...

Bodenstab v. County of Cook

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant is...

Tennison v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on Defendant-Officers' alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence, the partial denial of Defendants' motion...

Tennison v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on Defendant-Officers' alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence, the partial denial of Defendants' motion...

Northwest Austin Mun. Utility Dist. No. 1. v. Holder

Civil Rights, Elections, Government Law
In an action seeking relief under the "bailout" provision in Section 4(a) of the Voting Rights Act, which allows a "political subdivision" to be...

Barr v. Sinton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (TRFRA) challenge to a zoning ordinance that precluded the use of private homes for ex-convict religious...

Hagan v. Rogers

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action by prisoners alleging that the prison failed to address a contagious skin disease, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed, where the...

Hendricks v. Geithner

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action for Defendant's allegedly racially discriminatory failure to promote Plaintiff, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed,...

LaSalle-Concepcion v. Toledo-Davila

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming wrongful discharge based on Plaintiff police officers' injuries suffered on duty, the dismissal of the...

District Atty.'s Offc. v. Osborne

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action seeking the evidence used to convict Defendant of sexual assault for the purposes of DNA testing, summary judgment...