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In re: Union Pac. R.R. Employment Practices Litig.

Civil Rights, Health Law
Union Pacific Railroad's policy of denying coverage for all contraception does not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended by the...

Parks v. City of Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a case arising from difficulties between two elected city officials raising claims that city officials conspired to prevent plaintiff's re-election...

West v. Keef

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case arising from the arrest of an allegedly suicidal paraplegic woman in her home, judgment pursuant to a jury verdict...

Velazquez v. City of Hialeah

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In civil rights action alleging police used excessive force on plaintiff after he was handcuffed during his drunk driving arrest, summary judgment for...

Dixon v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI alleging that plaintiff was denied reinstatement as an FBI Special Agent as a...

Boykin v. Van Buren Township Police Dep't

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action arising from circumstances where plaintiff was mistakenly identified by store employees as having shoplifted and subsequently arrested,...

Jogi v. Voges

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a suit by an Indian national against law enforcement officials alleging violation of the Vienna Convention, dismissal of the complaint for lack of...

Sprint Telephony PCS, L.P. v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Government Law
In a suit brought by wireless service providers to prevent San Diego County from enforcing its Wireless Telecommunications Facilities zoning...

McKithen v. Queens County Dist. Attorney

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In civil rights action seeking access to DNA testing that plaintiff claims may exonerate him of his conviction, dismissal of claim is vacated as: 1)...

Toyama v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a discrimination case arising from petitioner's removal from her position as a Public Health Advisor for failing to accept a directed reassignment...