all - Opinion Summaries

Alexander v. City of Milwaukee

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Judgment for plaintiffs in a suit by police officers under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. sections 1981 and 1983 alleging discriminatory promotion practices...

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...

Youg-Qian v. Bd. of Trs. of the Univ. of Illinois

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a Title VII and First Amendment retaliation suit over the denial of tenure to a professor at the University of...

US v. Spinner

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Denial of motion to suppress, made prior to guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, is reversed as the police did not...

Stanley v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit challenging the Attorney General's removal of plaintiff from her position as a United States Trustee as a violation of the separation of...

Fisher v. City of San Jose

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging constitutional violations stemming from a twelve-hour standoff at plaintiff's apartment between him and...

Keith v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Denial of application for Disability Insurance Benefits is affirmed where: 1) petitioner did not present any evidence that the ALJ failed to follow...

Spielbauer v. Santa Clara County

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where plaintiff was dismissed by his employer, defendant county, for engaging in conduct unbecoming a county employee by making deceptive...

People v. Costello

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction of first degree murder, making criminal threats, and inflicting corporal injury on the mother of his child, various findings of priors, and...

Boci v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied where the petitioners could...