all - Opinion Summaries

Walch v. Adjutant Gen.'s Dep't of Texas

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Military Law
In an action raising claims based on plaintiff's discharge from the Texas Air National Guard and the loss of his position as a full-time National...

Gross v. Town of Cicero

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
On a motion to reconsider dismissal of plaintiff's appeal for failure to prosecute, the circuit court gives appellant's counsel the choice of paying a...

Pavey v. Conley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an interlocutory appeal from a decision finding that a prisoner plaintiff in a suit for damages governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act is...

M.M.R.-Z v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an interlocutory appeal in an action arising from the termination of a cognitively disabled homebound minor's educational services provided by the...

Negron-Almeda v. Santiago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an employment discrimination case premised on a claim of political connivance wherein the district court used its equitable powers to augment the...

Young Apts., Inc. v. Town of Jupiter, Florida

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought by an apartment complex owner claiming that the purpose behind a Florida town's enactment and enforcement of an "Overcrowding...

Coronado v. Cobblestone Village Cmty. Rentals

Civil Rights, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Property Law & Real Estate
A plaintiff seeking to establish a cause of action under the Unruh Civil Rights Act or the Disabled Persons Act based solely on the existence of a...

Hanig v. City of Winner

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
In a case wherein a plaintiff filed a federal complaint after he was granted a state mandamus hearing concerning the denial of his liquor license...

Lewis v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought under Title VII involving the Chicago Fire Department's hiring practices, alleging that the test administered by defendant...

Arroyo-Audifred v. Verizon Wireless, Inc.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an age discrimination action brought by an employee alleging they were wrongfully denied several promotions, summary judgment for employer is...