all - Opinion Summaries

Torromeo v. Town of Fremont

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claiming that defendant-town's delay in issuing certain building permits for plaintiffs'...

Colon-Santiago v. Rosario

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Public Utilities
In a case for damages under the 1st, 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution arising out of employment terminations, grant of summary...

Quiles-Quiles v. Henderson

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against the U.S. Postmaster General by a former postal employee under the Rehabilitation Act, judgment as a matter of law for defendant was...

Ramirez v. Sanchez Ramos

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
The district court properly dismissed plaintiff's facial and as-applied First Amendment challenges to the Puerto Rican Riot Act since the plaintiff...

Battle v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on plaintiff's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state law claims is affirmed...

Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A judgment in an employment racial discrimination suit is vacated where the court of appeals erred in: 1) holding that modifiers or qualifications are...

United Haulers Ass'n, Inc. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Mgmt. Auth.

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a challenge under the dormant Commerce Clause to certain counties' municipal flow control ordinances is affirmed...

Hankins v. Lyght

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is constitutional as applied to federal law and therefore amended the Age Discrimination in Employment...

Vaughn v. Greene County

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of summary judgment for defendant, sheriff, in a civil rights case arising from the in-custody death of plaintiff's brother is reversed where...

Women's Med. Prof'l Corp. v. Baird

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Grant of a permanent injunction against defendant, director of a state department of health, in a challenge brought by an abortion clinic operator to...