all - Opinion Summaries

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Mayes

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a personal injury action against Goodyear arising from an accident between plaintiff and a Goodyear employee, a court of appeals' reversal of...

Koch v. Cox

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In suit against S.E.C. alleging violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Age...

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co v. NLRB

Labor & Employment Law
Petitions for review of respondent's findings that petitioner company permissibly declared an impasse with respect to negotiations over a collective...

Johnson v. City of Tulsa

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
A prevailing party in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit may be awarded attorney's fees for post-consent-decree efforts to preserve the fruits of the...

Rosenberg v. Metlife, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff-s libel claim is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in holding that under New York law,...

Maxfield v. Cintas Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In a former employee's action alleging race discrimination and violations of the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA),...

Davenport v. Washington Educ. Ass'n

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A state does not violate the First Amendment by requiring its public-sector unions to receive affirmative authorization from a non-member before...

Mattis v. State Universities Retirement System

Education Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
In a matter concerning benefits calculation for a law professor retired from Southern Illinois University under early retirement provisions, the...

Flynn v. Industrial Comm'n

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a worker's compensation claim where claimant engaged in seasonal employment, claimant should be compensated by taking into consideration, as...

Mayor of the City of N.Y.v. Council of the City of N.Y.

Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Mayor's challenge to validity of two local laws, passed by the City Council over his veto, that give certain fire department employees the status of...