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Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Bd. of Regents for the Univ. of Louisiana Sys.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a suit alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on Eleventh Amendment grounds is...

Marks v. State of Tennessee

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law
In a suit alleging discrimination and retaliation based on plaintiff's disability, dismissal for lack of jurisdiction on the basis of Rooker-Feldman...

Zerante v. Deluca

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against a mayor and his chief of staff alleging that plaintiff was fired in retaliation for her political activities, summary judgment for...

Christensen v. Park City Mun. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a case involving the enforcement against a visual artist selling his own work of municipal ordinances forbidding any person, with certain...

Nagle v. Calumet Park

Civil Rights, Elder Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action, summary judgment for Defendants is affirmed. Plaintiff failed to prove Defendants' discriminatory intent using...

Vallario v. Vandehey

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a civil rights class action brought by four inmates challenging a number of jail customs and policies, or the lack thereof, which purportedly...

Foster v. Runnels

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a prisoner suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claiming that defendant violated plaintiff's Eighth Amendment rights by depriving him of meals,...

Young v. Davis

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of a Bivens claim for false arrest and false imprisonment is affirmed where: 1) since there was a judicial determination of probable cause...

Adkins v. Wolever

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Sanctions
In suit against a guard at a correctional facility alleging that defendant assaulted plaintiff in his cell and caused serious injuries, a denial of...

Best v. Portland

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, summary judgment for Defendants is affirmed but reversed in part where Plaintiff's claims were not barred by...