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Simmons v. Uintah Health Care Special Serv. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 lawsuit brought by terminated nursing home administrator alleging that she failed to receive the process due her under...

Charles v. Grief

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Gaming Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 racial discrimination and employment retaliation suit brought by plaintiff whose job as a systems analyst with the Texas...

Dubay v. Wells

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In an action brought by a father challenging the constitutionality of the Michigan Paternity Act and related laws, arising from circumstances in which...

Daubenmire v. City of Columbus

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 arising in large part from some plaintiffs' arrests and prosecution for open burning without a permit after...

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 at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the...

Pennsylvania Prison Soc'y v. Cortes

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a case challenging 1997 amendments to the Pennsylvania Constitution, which changed the composition of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons and the...

Bennett v. Saint-Gobain Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed over plaintiff's contentions that: 1) the district court...

Sims v. Johnson

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights
In case involving settlement of plaintiff's discrimination claims, denial of motion for a declaratory judgment concerning the payment of attorneys'...

Greer v. Paulson

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In Title VII action brought after plaintiff, an African-American female who worked as an attorney for the IRS, was terminated after being placed on...

Hathaway v. Bazany

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a civil rights case raising questions of excessive force under the Fourth Amendment involving the shooting death of a teenage driver by a policeman...