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Reed v. Mineta

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Transportation
An order granting prejudgment interest to plaintiff, air traffic controller is reversed and remanded for recalculation of the interest on the back pay...

Brown v. Snow

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
Summary judgment for employer-defendant on claims of sexual harassment and retaliation while plaintiff was employed at the Internal Revenue Service is...

Harman v. City & County of San Francisco

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A trial court's award of $1.1 million dollars in attorney's fees to counsel for plaintiff, an airfield safety officer, in an employment civil rights...

U.S. v. Kumpf

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Military Law
Grant of summary judgment for the U.S. government in a denaturalization case is affirmed where the naturalized individual illegally gained his entry...

Ashman v. Barrows

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action is reversed where there was a genuine issue of material fact concerning whether...

Moore v. Guthrie

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal for failure to state a claim of plaintiff-police officer's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims against a city and its police chief based on a...

Jana-Rock Construction, Inc. v. New York State

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's claim against New York's race-based affirmative action program under the Equal Protection Clause is affirmed where plaintiff...

Hoffman v. Applicators Sales

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Elder Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of summary judgment for defendant in an age discrimination lawsuit is affirmed where the information relied on by plaintiff in defending the...

Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
The threshold number of employees for application of Title VII to an employer is an element of a plaintiff's claim for relief, not a jurisdictional...

Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. MacDonald

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Rights, Construction, Contracts
A plaintiff cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1981 unless he has or would have rights under the existing or proposed contract that he...