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Carraher v. Target Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action raising an age discrimination claim against Target Corporation, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed as: 1) defendant established a...

Abdulnour v. Campbell Soup Supply Co., LLC

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an Iraqi citizen's action against Campbell's soup company raising a national origin discrimination claim under Title VII and state law, summary...

See v. City of Elyria

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by a police officer, alleging a violation of his First Amendment rights when disciplinary actions were...

Proctor v. United Parcel Serv.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action alleging plaintiff's employer, UPS, terminated him in retaliation for filing administrative charges of disability discrimination in...

Urhausen v. Longs Drug Stores Cal., Inc.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
In case where disabled woman slipped and fell in front of defendant's store, judgment for defendants on claims of negligence per se and denial of...

Sands v. McCormick

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state tort law action brought against a police officer and district attorney, judgments for defendants are affirmed...

Langley v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Mere labeling by a plan sponsor or administrator is not determinative on whether a plan is governed by ERISA. In a former employee's case brought...

Amlong & Amlong, P.A. v. Denny's, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Sanctions
Order imposing sanctions in excess of $400,000, under 28 U.S.C. section 1927, for defendant attorneys' conduct in representing a Title VII plaintiff...

Burt v. Gates

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Military Law
In case brought by faculty members at Yale Law School regarding the Solomon Amendment's denial of federal funding if any part of a university refuses...

Equity Lifestyle Props., Inc. v. County of San Luis Obispo

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought challenging a municipal rent control ordinance, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where: 1) although plaintiff had standing...