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Pyke v. Cuomo

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Indian Law
District court's grant of summary judgment to defendants on plaintiffs' claim that defendants' response to a period of violent unrest on an Indian...

Strauss v. Horton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law
California's Proposition 8, the initiative measure changing the official designation of the term "marriage" for the union of opposite-sex couples,...

Knappenberger v. Phoenix

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that Defendant city constructively discharged Plaintiff police officer from his job, judgment on the...

Haywood v. Drown

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action by a prisoner, judgment for Defendant-Officers is reversed where Correction Law section 24, as applied to Section...

Gallagher v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII hostile work environment sexual harassment action, summary judgment for Defendant is reversed where: 1) the District Court erred by...

Fields v. Prater

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that Defendants prevented a state agency from hiring Plaintiff based on her political affiliation, the...

Keck v. Graham Hotel Sys., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1981 action claiming that Defendant hotel refused to host Plaintiffs' wedding ceremony based on Plaintiffs' race, summary...

Robinson v. Shelby Cty. Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Education Law
The District Court's denial of the parties' joint motions to dissolve certain school district desegregation orders is reversed, where the District...

Collier v. Montgomery

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging an unlawful arrest, the denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed, where: 1)...

Cobbins v. Tenn. Dept. of Transp.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a Title VII action alleging that Defendant failed to promote Plaintiff based on his race, judgment for Defendant is reversed, where the District...