all - Opinion Summaries

Rivera v. City of Chicago

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Judgement Enforcement
Denial of costs to defendant-city following a grant of summary judgment in its favor in an action brought by plaintiff in an effort to collect on a...

Ovadal v. City of Madison

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action challenging a city's "traffic hazard policy" banning displays from certain overpasses and alleging that plaintiff's constitutional rights...

Szymanski v. County of Cook

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a nurse's action alleging that a county, through employee-doctor, retaliated against her in violation of Title VII after her employment with the...

Taylor v. Los Angeles Dep't of Water & Power

Civil Rights, Gaming Law, Labor & Employment Law
Sustaining of demurrer to amended complaint, in action brought by employee for retaliation after he opposed race discrimination against a subordinate,...

Holbrook v. City of Santa Monica

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In case claiming city council meetings violated state law and state and federal constitutions, the sustaining of demurrer, grant of special motion to...

Skoog v. County of Clackamas

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A right exists to be free of police action for which retaliation is a but-for cause even if probable cause exists for that action. In a 42 U.S.C....

Peay v. Ajello

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of complaint, brought by prisoner under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against his prosecutor, public defender, and assistant probation officer in...

Omega World Travel, Inc. v. Mummagraphics Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Cyberspace Law
In suit alleging spam e-mail messages were sent in violation of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 and...

Via v. LaGrand

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law
Denial of summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity for one defendant in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against employees and officials of the...

Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Dial Corp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
A judgment for the EEOC in its sex discrimination action against a producer of canned meats under Title VII brought on behalf of women who had applied...