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Patane v. Clark

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In Title VII discrimination suit alleging, dismissal of complaint is vacated where plaintiff has stated claims for hostile work environment and...

Stotter v. Univ. of Texas at San Antonio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a civil rights case involving the termination of an employment contract of a tenured professor and the alleged destruction of his personal...

Young v. Selk

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prisoner's action alleging defendants-prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by...

Aguilar v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Immigration Law
In a suit against the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security alleging violation of constitutional...

Lighthouse Inst. for Evangelism, Inc. v. City of Long Branch

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A religious plaintiff under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act's (RLUIPA) Equal Terms Provision need not show that a challenged...

Haywood v. Drown

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Correction Law section 24, depriving New York courts of jurisdiction under state or federal law to entertain civil actions seeking money damages...

Mokler v. County of Orange

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
After jury found that defendant county terminated plaintiff in violation of California's whistleblower statute, and that individual defendant sexually...

Engle v. Copenbarger & Copenbarger

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In suit alleging sex discrimination and where plaintiff accepted a statutory offer to compromise that said nothing about fees or costs, denial of...

Tabbaa v. Chertoff

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case where five U.S. citizens and practicing Muslims with no criminal records were searched and detained at the U.S.-Canada border, upon...

Segar v. Mukasey

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In ongoing Title VII racial discrimination action, injunction barring appellant Drug Enforcement Administration from promoting any special agents, who...