all - Opinion Summaries

Association of Disabled Ams. v. Neptune Designs, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence
Order granting in part and denying in part plaintiffs' requests for attorney fees and costs, which they claimed as prevailing parties under the...

Buchanan v. State of Maine

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983, ADA and equal protection suit arising out of the treatment of a mentally ill man and his...

Henderson v. Walled Lake Consol. Sch.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging plaintiff was subjected to sexual harassment by her high school soccer coach raising both state and federal law claims, summary...

Anderson v. Blake

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Denial of defendant-police officer's motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity is affirmed over claims that the district court erred by: 1)...

Hackworth v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants, employer and supervisor, on plaintiff's claim for damages pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)...

National Fam. Planning & Reprod. Health Ass'n, Inc. v. Gonzales

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
Appeal from summary judgment for the government and denial of injunction against Weldon Amendment, which prohibits recipients of federal grant funds...

Frunz v. City of Tacoma

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit claiming constitutional violations for unlawful entry and search of plaintiff's home and for use of excessive force...

Erickson v. WI Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law in a Title VII case alleging a hostile work environment after a sexual assault by an...

Gillis v. Litscher

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment for corrections officers in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit alleging violation of a prisoner's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights is...

Parra v. City and County of San Francisco

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of motions to dismiss charges of violations of police department orders and rules of conduct, brought by seven San Francisco police officers...