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Lulaj v. Wackenhut Corp.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Denial of employer's motion for renewed judgment as a matter of law, or a new trial, following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff on a claim of sex...

Snodgrass v. Robinson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Sentencing
In a prisoner's suit alleging that the Iowa Board of Parole, its members, and the governor of Iowa violated her constitutional rights by applying laws...

Levin v. United Airlines

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In case arising from plaintiff's arrest, and later release, for making a false bomb report at LAX, appeal from verdict for defendants is affirmed as a...

Cerqueira v. American Airlines, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts
In a suit alleging that the removal of the plaintiff from a flight and subsequent denial of re-booking violated his rights to be free of race...

Popoalii v. Corr. Med. Servs.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendants acted with deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical needs while she was...

Pennington v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case brought by a police officer alleging that, after an altercation at a bar while he was off duty, he was unlawfully required to take the...

Gilbert v. Cook

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that prison officer violated plaintiff's rights under the Eighth Amendment, judgment as a matter of...

Sain v. Wood

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claiming that the conditions of confinement for a person under civil commitment violated the Fourteenth...

Stodghill v. Wellston Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a superintendent against his former school district and officials arising from alleged stigmatizing public comments made about plaintiff...

Jones v. Minnesota Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections and individual prison officials for allegedly violating plaintiff's mother's Eighth...