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American Civil Rights Found. v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Education Law
In an action alleging that certain programs of defendant-school district violated Proposition 209 because the programs took into account a student's...

DeJung v. Super. Ct.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an age discrimination case against defendant-superior court under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), summary judgment for...

Yes on Term Limits, Inc. v. Savage

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action challenging the validity of Oklahoma's ban on non-resident petition circulators under the constitutional First...

Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Southwestern Bell Tele., L.P.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by the EEOC against defendant-telephone company for the termination of two employees in violation of Title VII in which the jury...

Bielanski v. County of Kane

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Civil rights suit brought by a girl falsely accused of molesting a child was properly dismissed where: 1) her summons before the juvenile court and...

Galvez v. Bruce

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Sheriff's Deputy is not entitled to qualified immunity at the summary judgment stage from a suit alleging the use of excessive force in the course of...

Gueveara v. Ventura County Cmty. College Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a wrongful termination action by plaintiff-police officer employee after being fired by defendant college district, dismissal of action without...

Casamento v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a gender discrimination case, summary judgment for employer is affirmed, as no evidence suggests that the job posting at issue was withdrawn...

LaFrenier v. Kinirey

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
Summary judgment was properly granted to defendants on civil rights claims arising from an actively resisted arrest, where there was nothing...

Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Environmental Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
The circuit court establishes that certain Alien Tort Statute (ATS) claims are appropriately considered for exhaustion under both domestic prudential...