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Richmond v. City of Brooklyn Ctr.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a suit against a city and police officers for alleged civil rights violations arising from a strip search of plaintiff in his motel room, denial of...

Blackman v. New York City Transit Auth.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that plaintiff was terminated from his employment in violation of his First Amendment rights, summary judgment for defendant is...

Draw v. City of Lincoln Park

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a civil rights action arising from defendants-officers' conduct at the scene of an illegal drag race, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed...

Tennessee Secondary Sch. Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law
The enforcement of a rule prohibiting high school coaches from recruiting middle school athletes does not violate the First Amendment.

US v. LeBlanc

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Denial of a motion to suppress in a prosecution for possession of a firearm by a felon is affirmed where: 1) Louisiana's probation statutes and...

Marrero-Gutierrez v. Molina

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit for political discrimination and violations of the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, judgment on the pleadings for defendants is...

Sheet Metal Workers' Int'l Ass'n v. NLRB

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving labor dispute with a contractor and threat to picket by union at a construction site of a neutral employer, as well as a mock...

Galli v. New Jersey Meadowlands Comm'n

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association protect government employees who lack a political affiliation from political patronage...

Lenz v. Reed

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights suit alleging that defendant-warden was deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk that guards would impose cruel and unusual...

Davison v. City of Minneapolis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employee's action against a chief of a fire department and city raising claims of unlawful retaliation in violation of her First Amendment...