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Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Partial summary judgment to the EEOC and a refusal to alter a judgment following a jury verdict awarding employee backpay, frontpay, and punitive...

Zinkand v. Brown

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In civil rights action against county and several police officers, summary judgment for defendants is reversed as to one of the police officers on the...

Davis v. City of Las Vegas

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Gaming Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case alleging 42 U.S.C. section 1983 excessive force and state law battery claims arising from plaintiff's arrest at a casino, summary judgment...

Abbas v. Kelly

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In prisoner civil rights action alleging physical assaults on him, dismissal of complaint as untimely is affirmed as: 1) although the district court...

Kraham v. Lippman

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In case involving new rule of Chief Judge of State of New York prohibiting certain high-ranking political party officials, their families, and their...

Russo v. Bridgeport

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In civil rights action against police for false arrest stemming from case of mistaken identity, summary judgment for defendants is vacated as to two...

Peterson v. National Telecomms. & Info. Admin.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Cyberspace Law
In case involving proxy registration of a website on the ".us" top-level domain, denial of motion for preliminary injunction to prevent defendant from...

Port Wash. Teachers' Ass'n v. Board of Educ. of the Port Wash. Union Free Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law
In case where defendant school district superintendent issued a policy memorandum to school district staff informing them that they should notify...

Zamora v. Elite Logistics, Inc.

Civil Rights, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against a former employer under Title VII alleging it discriminated against plaintiff because of his race, summary judgment for the employer...

LeMaire v. State of Louisiana

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment on an employee's claims against state employer of sexual harassment and retaliation under Title VII is affirmed in part and reversed...