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Parsons v. Pioneer Seed Hi-Bred Int'l, Inc.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Elder Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of an age discrimination lawsuit brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and state law against an employer is affirmed...

Pagan v. Fruchey

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants, a village and its police chief, on claims arising out of a village ordinance proscribing a resident's ability to...

DeLuna v. City of Rockford

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 and wrongful death action is affirmed where: 1) the use of deadly force was reasonable; 2) the...

Thomas v. St. Louis Bd. of Police Comm'rs

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners is not an arm of the state of Missouri for purposes of Eleventh Amendment Immunity.

San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798 v. City & County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A judgment ordering a city into binding arbitration of a dispute with a firefighters union is reversed where a rule changing the method by which...

Oliveros v. Mitchell

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendants on claims brought by a decedent's personal representative under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state tort law arising from...

Peoples v. CCA Detention Ctrs.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Upon rehearing en banc, judgments denying relief in two actions brought alleging that plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated during his...

Miller v. King

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiff's Eighth Amendment and ADA claims is vacated in order to allow plaintiff to amend his complaint...

Goodman v. Ray

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Court of appeals vacates: 1) prior opinion in same case; 2) dismissal of plaintiff's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment claims, and claims under ADA; 3)...

Conservatorship of Christopher A.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Although establishment of conservatorship under Lanterman-Petris-Short Act is affirmed, that portion of judgment ordering placement, disabilities, and...