all - Opinion Summaries

Ambrose v. Young

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against corrections officials alleging they violated an inmate's Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect him...

Osborn v. Haley

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of the Westfall Act, which accords federal employees absolute immunity from tort claims arising out of acts undertaken in the course of...

Miller v. Prince George's County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case alleging defendant police officer deliberately or recklessly made material false statements and omissions on a warrant affidavit, ultimately...

Bagent v. Blessing Care Corporation

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a matter of privacy claims based on the actions of a hospital employee who revealed blood test results to the sister of the plaintiff without...

Felter v. Kempthorne

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law
After dismissal of complaint, based on six-year statute of limitations for non-tort actions against the U.S., alleging defendants improperly...

Desiano v. Warner Lambert Co.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In case alleging injuries caused by the drug Rezulin, grant of judgment on the pleadings for defendants, finding Michigan plaintiffs' claims were...

Johnson v. City of Seattle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by plaintiffs injured during rioting in Seattle, summary judgment for defendants, the city and police...

Warriner v. Stanton

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Summary judgment for defendant in a medical malpractice case is affirmed where the district court did not err in its application of New Jersey's...

Carver v. City of Cincinatti

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought against a city, police officers, and firefighters/EMTs, denial of qualified immunity for the officers...

Surles v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
A judgment awarding $8 million in compensatory damages to plaintiff for injuries sustained while a passenger on one of defendant-Greyhound's buses and...