all - Opinion Summaries

Bull v. City & County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
An order denying qualified immunity in an 42 U.S.C. section 1983 class action suit is affirmed where, under the circumstances of this case, San...

Phelps-Roper v. Strickland

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
A provision of Ohio Rev. Code section 3767.30, which prohibits "picketing" or "other protest activities," within 300 feet of the funeral or burial...

Danley v. Allen

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In claim against jailers at county detention center for excessive force and deliberate indifference in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, denial...

Bettner v. Admin. Review Bd., US Dept. of Labor

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In an action alleging that petitioner-truck driver was retaliated against by his employer for refusing to violate federal hour restrictions, petition...

Wheeler v. Lawson

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging that defendant-sheriff's officer unlawfully arrested plaintiff without probable cause for maintaining a...

Combs v. Homer-Center Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Family Law, Government Law
In a suit by parents who home-school their children seeking declaratory relief and a permanent injunction to prohibit the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...

Bolton v. City of Dallas

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging violations of plaintiff-police chief's due-process rights, summary judgment finding that defendant-city was not liable under 42...

Ngo v. Woodford

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's civil rights suit on remand from the Supreme Court, dismissal of the suit is affirmed where prisoner failed to exhaust his...

Buckley v. Mukasey

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action under Title VII claiming race discrimination, sex discrimination, and retaliation stemming from plaintiff's employment as a special agent...

Prescott v. Higgins

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a claim of racial discrimination against defendant city, grant of summary judgment for defendants, denial of plaintiff's cross-motion for summary...