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EEOC v. Fed. Express Corp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In suit brought on behalf of former package handler for failing to reasonably accommodate his deafness under the ADA, six-figure judgment for...

Shakur v. Schriro

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action alleging prison officials violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the Free Exercise Clause, and the Equal...

Evans v. City of Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Sanctions
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendants conspired to falsely convict plaintiff of crimes, judgment for defendants is affirmed...

Basco v. Machin

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Property Law & Real Estate
In a civil rights complaint alleging due process violations when plaintiffs' housing subsidy was terminated for the presence of an unauthorized...

Cave v. East Meadow Union Free Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Health Law
Challenge to denial of motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining defendants from denying one plaintiff entry to his high school and any school...

Doe v. Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation & Parole

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Sentencing
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by an anonymous plaintiff seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from aspects of Pennsylvania's...

Price v. Sery

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging, inter alia, that police officers unconstitutionally used deadly force for which defendant-City was...

Greene v. Solano County Jail

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action brought by a former maximum security prisoner claiming that a jail's policy of prohibiting maximum security prisoners from participating...

Chmielinski v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that termination proceedings for a probation officer violated his procedural due process rights, dismissal for failure to state a...

Parm v. Shumate

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that plaintiffs-recreational fishermen were falsely arrested for trespass when they refused to cease...