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Crawford v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The protection of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids retaliation by employers against employees who report workplace race or...

EEOC v. Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by the EEOC to enforce a subpoena connected to an investigation of Defendant-Employer's discriminatory hiring practices, the dismissal of...

Tobin v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from a remitted jury award to plaintiff based on the failure of defendant-employer to accommodate his disability as required by federal...

Abraham v. Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action brought by former employee, a researcher on the biological aspect of zebrafish, who was terminated after he...

Garner v. Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
District court order imposing costs and attorney fees against plaintiffs for maintaining frivolous discrimination claims after those claims had become...

Brown v. Cal. Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendants violated the terms of an oral plea agreement by advocating for plaintiff's...

Malone v. Corr. Corp. of Am.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force, the dismissal of Plaintiff's complaint is affirmed. Under Wisconsin law, the...

Pearson v. Callahan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against state law enforcement officers who conducted a warrantless search of plaintiff's house incident to his...

Fitzgerald v. Barnstable Sch.Comm'n

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
Title IX does not preclude an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging unconstitutional gender discrimination in schools.

Humphries v. County of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a suit to determine whether California's maintenance of the Child Abuse Central Index violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...