all - Opinion Summaries

Youg-Qian v. Bd. of Trs. of the Univ. of Illinois

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a Title VII and First Amendment retaliation suit over the denial of tenure to a professor at the University of...

Wolf v. CIA

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendant, in FOIA action seeking records related to Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a late, former Colombian politician, is reversed to...

Gilliam v. South Carolina Dept' of Juvenile Justice

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant in Title VII hostile work environment suit is affirmed as plaintiff is unable to make a prima facie showing of a...

Fisher v. City of San Jose

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging constitutional violations stemming from a twelve-hour standoff at plaintiff's apartment between him and...

Conlon v. US

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Summary judgment against plaintiff in a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) action involving his alleged improper arrest and imprisonment is affirmed where...

Efaw v. Williams

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
A judgment for plaintiff in an action involving a claim that he was beaten severely by two guards while imprisoned at a county jail is vacated where,...

Humphries v. CBOCS West, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for a retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1981 is reversed where plaintiff made a sufficient showing under the indirect method...

Marshall v. Columbia Lea Reg'l Hosp.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
A judgment for plaintiff on a civil rights claim brought against a city and police for violation of his Fourth Amendment right to be free of...

Sallenger v. Oakes

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Denial of motion for summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging violation of the Fourth Amendment's right to be free from excessive...

Adams v. Speers

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of immunity for a California Highway Patrol officer in a civil rights suit involving an individual's death after a police pursuit and shooting...