all - Opinion Summaries

Hampton v. Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dep't

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by a school director who was arrested after he requested to see an arrest warrant for a student an officer...

Barrow v. Greenville Indep. Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment to a school district on a teacher's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and Title VII disparate impact claims is affirmed where: 1) the district...

California Family Bioethics Council v. California Inst. for Regenerative Med.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Health Law
In cases challenging the validity of Proposition 71, the stem cell research initiative approved by a substantial majority of the voters, a judgment...

Harris v. Brownlee

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute arising from a settlement agreement purportedly resolving claims that plaintiff's employer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,...

Osborne v. Grussing

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A plaintiff who seeks relief from valid adverse regulatory action on the ground it was unconstitutional retaliation for First Amendment-protected...

Koulta v. Merciez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by a fatal car crash victim's estate against a city and police officers, denial of summary judgment for...

Holcombe v. Hosmer

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging that defendants dismissed her from the Nevada Department of Public Safety in retaliation for associating...

US v. Miller

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A detention facility supervisor's conviction for depriving two prisoners of their Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment...

Brown v. Simmons

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case alleging that defendant-superintendent of schools infringed teacher's procedural due process rights by denying him a name-clearing hearing...

Gillan v. City of San Marino

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving plaintiff's detention for the alleged sexual molestation of a minor, judgment against defendants city and former police officials is...