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Jewett v. Anders

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit against a police officer alleging wrongful arrest, excessive force and due process violations, denial of qualified immunity is reversed...

Hardrick v. City of Bolingbrook

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against police officers and a city alleging unlawful arrest and unreasonable force, summary judgment for defendants...

Townsend v. Fuchs

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a prisoner suit alleging that the defendants' act of placing plaintiff in administrative segregation violated his Fourteenth and Eighth Amendment...

Brown v. City of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action brought by two LAPD officers injured in the line of duty claiming that an offset for any workers' compensation award, contained in LAPD's...

Lyons v. Potter

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case filed against USPS ten months after USPS rendered a final agency decision on an employee's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint,...

Morrison v. Bd. of Educ. of Boyd County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In an action brought against a board of education by Christian student at a county high school claiming that speech codes prevented students from...

Blair v. City of Worcester

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by plaintiffs claiming they were allegedly attacked and beaten by several city police officers, grant of defendants' motion to...

Recio v. Creighton Univ.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action where an employer alleged that her employer retaliated against her for filing a discrimination charge, summary...

Amrine v. Brooks

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Remedies
In an action against a prison investigator, deputy sheriff, and prosecution investigator for their investigations which led to plaintiff's conviction...

Lugo-Velazquez v. Stiefel Lab., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an appeal primarily addressing an employee's ERISA-related claims against a former employer, summary judgment for employer is affirmed over...