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Dodson v. Univ. of Arkansas for Med. Sci.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Education Law, Health Law
In an action claiming that a university's refusal to allow plaintiff control over the disposition of embryos created by plaintiff and her ex-husband...

United Healthcare Ins. Co. v. Davis

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In both parties' appeal from the district court's order enjoining the implementation of La. R.S. section 42:802.1 (the Act) on the basis that it...

London v. RBS Citizens, N.A.

Banking Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Judgement Enforcement
In judgment debtors' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against their bank for freezing funds in their checking account, including some of which were Social...

US v. Pagan-Rodriguez

Constitutional Law, Sentencing
In defendant's motion to dismiss the revocation hearing claiming that the indefinite postponement of his final revocation hearing infringed his right...

Wrightsell v. Cook County

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Civil Procedure
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a county claiming that the failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail's...

Townsend v. Jefferson Cty.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that two deputies at a county jail were deliberately indifferent to the serious medical need of plaintiff,...

Brown v. Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that an officer used excessive force, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where, because plaintiff...

Sandra T.E. v. S. Berwyn Sch. Dist. 100

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a law firm's appeal from the district court's order requiring it to produce documents it created in an internal investigation of a school district,...

Elgharib v. Napolitano

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Administrative Law
Dismissal of a petition for a writ of prohibition challenging an in absentia removal order is affirmed as an alien's petition for a writ of...

Santiago v. Walls

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a pro se action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against certain officers and employees of the Illinois correctional department alleging that they had...