all - Opinion Summaries

Campbell v. Gambro Healthcare, Inc.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) actions, when an employer cites only factors predating the employee's return to work to...

Bailey v. Potter

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII and Rehabilitation Act case brought by former postal worker against the USPS alleging discrimination based on race, sex, and...

Parker v. DC

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
A challenge was brought against District of Columbia gun control laws which bar the registration of handguns, the carrying of pistols without a...

Equal Opportunity Employment Comm'n v. Woodmen of the World Life Ins Soc'y

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of employer's motion compel its employee to arbitrate her Title VII claims and to stay cross-claims she brought as an intervenor in the EEOC's...

Ellenberg v. New Mexico Military Inst.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
Before a party may seek relief in federal court alleging a violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) substantive...

Danley v. Allen

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In civil rights action alleging detention officers used excessive force in spraying plaintiff with pepper spray then denying him medical treatment...

Gambini v. Total Renal Care, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action setting forth Family Medical Leave Act and state discrimination law claims, denial of employee's motion seeking judgment as a matter of...

Peterson v. County of Dakota

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law action brought by a county employee after she was terminated for falsifying a time record and making...

Kirkendall v. Dep't of the Army

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Dismissal of disabled veteran's claims that he had been discriminated against in violation of the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) and the...

Petty v. County of Franklin, Ohio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by former inmate who sustained serious injury to his jaw during a fight with other inmates, alleging county...