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Lewis v. Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action challenging Chicago's practice of selecting only applicants who scored 89 or above on a written examination because of its...

Johnston v. Maha

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a civil rights action regarding the conditions of plaintiff-inmate's confinement, plaintiff's motion for appointment of counsel in his appeal of a...

Dos Reis v. Holder

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Immigration Law
A Brazilian citizen's petition for review of an order of the BIA affirming an IJ's denial of his motion to reopen removal proceedings is denied as the...

Alvarez v. City of Chicago

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In two lawsuits against the City of Chicago brought by paramedics, claiming that it willfully failed to properly compensate them for overtime,...

State Comp. Ins. Fund v. Superior Court

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In plaintiff's suit to collect unpaid premiums it claimed were owed for workers' compensation insurance policies issued to defendant, plaintiff's...

Gorelik v. Costin

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the president of the New Hampshire State Board of Medicine, arising from the Board's...

Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Trudeau

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, False Advertising, Sanctions
District court's summary disposition, sentencing defendant to thirty days for direct criminal contempt of court for directing his fans to send emails...

Pella Corp. v. Saltzman

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In plaintiffs' suit against a window manufacturer, alleging that defendant committed consumer fraud by not publicly declaring a design defect that...

In re: Latture

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
The court of appeals affirms the bankruptcy appellate panel's (BAP) order dismissing debtor's appeal as untimely where: 1) debtor's failure to timely...

Peer v. Lewis

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection, Elections, Sanctions
In a case arising from a contentious Florida election, a district court's order denying defendant's request for sanctions against three attorneys who...