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Bush v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by six minority members of a police department claiming that defendant police supervisor's racially discriminatory conduct and the...

Murray v. Lene

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging, inter alia, an unlawful seizure, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed in part where: 1) the district...

Gagne v. Booker

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Grant of habeas relief to a defendant convicted of criminal sexual misconduct is affirmed as a Michigan Court of Appeals opinion constituted an...

City of Dallas v. Abbott

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a declaratory action by the City of Dallas seeking to except certain information under the Public Information Act from disclosure, judgment of the...

Culosi v. Bullock

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against a police officer and others for the fatal shooting of an optometrist, whom the police were...

Tolliver v. Sheets

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for habeas relief brought by a defendant convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend is affirmed where: 1) while portions of...

Wilkins v. Gaddy

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force by a correctional officer, a court of appeals' affirmance of dismissal of the complaint is...

Rohrbough v. Univ. of Colo. Hosp. Auth.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that plaintiff's employer, a public hospital, fired her in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment rights, summary...

Good v. Curtis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
In an action alleging that defendant violated plaintiff's rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments when he manipulated a photographic lineup...

Chavez-Rodriguez v. Santa Fe

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a First Amendment action by a public employee alleging she was retaliated against based on her criticism of her employer, denial of summary...