all - Opinion Summaries

Squire v. Coughlin

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Government Law
In an action brought by a state court judge under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against disciplinary counsel for the Supreme Court of Ohio alleging a due...

Ross v. Kish

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Denial of special motion to strike, under the anti-SLAPP statute, a cause of action for malicious prosecution filed against defendant by plaintiff,...

Tibbs v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Summary judgment for city and police officer in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging violation of plaintiff's Fourth Amendment rights is affirmed...

Roberts v. Ward

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case arising from plaintiffs' termination from employment for failing to comply with a state Department of Park's dress code, dismissal of claims...

Spencer v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an appeal arising from a discrimination action brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against a former employer, orders vacating...

Scarbrough v. Morgan County Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a civil rights and state law action brought against a county Board of Education and some of its individual members involving alleged retaliation...

Simpson v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, International Law
In case involving Libyan authorities capturing passengers and crew of a yacht that docked in Benghazi during a storm, with allegations of torture,...

CEI WA Bureau Inc. v. U.S. Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
Summary judgment in favor of appellee, after appellee denied appellant's request for certain records relating to the incarceration of illegal aliens,...

Kohler v. Englade

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Summary judgment for defendants, a city, a police chief and a detective, on plaintiff's claims brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 arising out of a...

State of New York ex rel. Harkavy v. Consilvio

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Sentencing
Section 402 of New York's Correction Law does not authorize a prison superintendent to unilaterally authorize a sex offender's involuntary commitment...