all - Opinion Summaries

Bates v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): 1) when plaintiffs challenge an employer's use of a safety-based qualification standard,...

O'Donnell v. Vencor, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's employment discrimination claims as time-barred is affirmed in part as to dismissal of her Title VII and Age Discrimination...

Green v. City of N.Y.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving taking plaintiff, who suffered from ALS, against his will to defendant hospital giving rise to allegations of disability...

Energy Mgmt. Corp. v. City of Shreveport

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
A declaratory judgment on remand declaring a city ordinance, involving the drilling of oil and gas wells, "invalid" rather than "preempted," and...

Easter v. Powell

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against a prison nurse alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, denial of qualified...

Jones v. McMahon

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of summary judgment motion for qualified immunity for individual defendants, in case alleging First and Fourth Amendment violations in...

Nestor v. Pratt & Whitney

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Summary judgment for defendant based on res judicata, in civil rights action against former employer, is vacated as a Title VII plaintiff who...

Nair v. Principi

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Summary judgment for defendant in a case brought by a nurse alleging retaliation and a Title VII hostile work environment based on national origin...

Feeney v. Corr. Med. Servs.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Dismissal and summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 case alleging deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical needs in...

Yarris v. County of Delaware

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Denial in part of motion to dismiss a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case against a county, its prosecutors and police officers alleging obscured, destroyed...