all - Opinion Summaries

Shrum v. City of Coweta

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The First Amendment applies to exercises of executive authority no less than it does to the passage of legislation. Partial denial of a police chief's...

Carter v. California Dep't of Veterans Affairs

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
2003 Amendments to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) stating that employers are potentially liable when third party nonemployees sexually...

Mullin v. Gettinger

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Jury verdict for defendants in an action by a professor against a university for first amendment retaliation is affirmed where any erroneous jury...

Equal Opportunity Employment Comm'n v. BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant-employer on a claim of race discrimination arising from the termination of a black employee is reversed where genuine...

Stoll v. Principi

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Dismissal of suit involving discrimination by a government employer is affirmed where a government employee's election to pursue a mixed case before...

Davis v. Williams

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendant-sheriff in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 and personal injury case is reversed where yelling unaccompanied by physical actions does...

Curay-Cramer v. Ursuline Acad. of Wilmington

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
In a case involving the firing of a private Catholic school teacher after she signed her name to a pro-choice advertisement in a newspaper, grant of...

Spencer v. Bouchard

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary judgment for defendants, officials within a sheriff's office, on civil rights claims brought by a prisoner under the First, Fourth, Eighth,...

Zamora v. Elite Logistics, Inc.

Civil Rights, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant-former employer in a Title VII suit alleging discrimination against plaintiff on the basis of his race or national...

T.F. v. Special Sch. Dist. of St. Louis

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
Denial of parents' claim for reimbursement of the out-of-state private school tuition for their disabled child under the Individuals with Disabilities...