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Adam Bros. Farming, Inc. v. County of Santa Barbara

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against the County of Santa Barbara and several of its employees in federal court, alleging that the county had, through a false wetland...

Knisley v. Pike County Joint Vocational Sch.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
On remand from the United States Supreme Court, denial of qualified immunity for defendants in eleven plaintiffs' suit alleging that they and every...

Eley v. Bagley

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a defendant convicted of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery and sentenced to death is...

Griffin v. Hardrick

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's section 1983 suit against a correction officer, raising an excessive force claim and a state-law claim for battery, arising from...

Colvin v. Caruso

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an inmate's section 1983 suit against multiple prison officials, claiming that a 16-day denial of kosher food, multiple mistakes in administering a...

Harvey v. Jordan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action claiming that corrections officers used excessive force and violated plaintiff-inmate's due process rights in the course of removing him...

Everroad v. Scott Truck Sys., Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer and the company's general manager for gender and age discrimination and retaliation, summary judgment...

Kodish v. Oakbrook Terrace Fire Prot. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former firefighter's suit alleging violation of his due process rights, violation of his First Amendment rights by terminating him for engaging...

Summe v. Kenton County Clerk's Office

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against a county clerk alleging a claim of unlawful patronage dismissal in violation of the First Amendment, and against county claiming...

Wragg v. Village of Thornton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a sixteen-year-old's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a village and individual defendants, alleging his substantive due process rights were...