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Miller v. Lambeth

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
An appeal from an order remanding an abatement case against defendant for operating a junkyard without a proper certificate to state court after...

Seeley v. Chase

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
An award for plaintiff pursuant to a jury verdict in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging that defendant-police officer sexually assaulted plaintiff...

Apodaca v. City of Albuquerque

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants, a city, its mayor, and officers, in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging a constitutionally wrongful arrest and...

Aguiar-Carrasquillo v. Agosto Alicea

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for the defendants in a political discrimination case is affirmed where the plaintiffs had no property interest in their employments...

Vasquez v. State of California

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving Prop. 139, judgment awarding plaintiff attorney fees, under a private attorney general theory, is affirmed over numerous claims...

Nivens v. Gilchrist

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies
Decision to abstain from exercising jurisdiction over plaintiffs' pending state criminal prosecution against them, and dismissal of suit with...

Jennings v. University of North Carolina

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants affirmed over claim that plaintiff, a student and member of the women's soccer team at UNC, is...

Rochelle v. State of Florida

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
An order granting a motion for new trial, or, in the alternative, remittitur in a case arising from the death of a former inmate is reversed where the...

Moran v. Clarke

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of a motion for a new trial in a suit brought by a police officer against police department officials in their individual and official...

Gregory v. City of Louisville

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
Orders in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law case arising from plaintiff's now-vacated conviction and imprisonment on rape and related charges are...