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Flowers v. City of Minneapolis

Civil Rights
In a civil rights action, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff did not produce sufficient...

Moore v. Williamsburg Regional Hosp.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a wrongful termination action by a physician against a hospital, summary judgment for Defendants is affirmed, where: 1) the Health Care Quality...

Morgan v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an age discrimination action, judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed in part, where evidence of age-related statements by Defendant-Employer's managers...

Lewis v. W. Palm Beach

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on the death of Plaintiff's decedent while being arrested by Defendant-Officers, summary judgment for...

Fisher v. San Jose

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on a warrantless arrest, judgment as a matter of law for Plaintiff is reversed, where, during an armed...

Fontroy v. Beard

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action involving the First Amendment rights of prisoners, district court's judgment is reversed where the defendant's new prison mail policy...

Mir-Yepez v. Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Civil Rights
In a civil rights action, district court's grant of defendants' motion for summary judgment is affirmed where: 1) the court's opinion is both closely...

Reams v. Irvin

Civil Rights, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on Defendants' impoundment of Plaintiff's horses, summary judgment for Defendants based on qualified immunity...

Rodis v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on an alleged false arrest, the District Court's denial of qualified immunity to Defendant-Officers is...

Potter v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Religious Freedom Restoration Act challenge to a city's requirement that firefighters be clean-shaven, summary judgment for Plaintiffs is...