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Yount v. City of Sacramento

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Judgment for defendants on battery and civil rights claims pursuant to Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), is reversed where the record did not...

Garrison v. Gambro

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant in an employment age discrimination case affirmed where plaintiffs failed to establish a prima facie case of...

Settles v. US Parole Comm'n

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action setting forth claims under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), plaintiff had standing to bring suit since...

Diaz v. San Antonio Prof'l Firefighters Ass'n

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment against plaintiff's claim, alleging that defendant breached its duty of fair representation, is affirmed where it is barred by the...

Lund v. Hennepin County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights action claiming due process violations resulting from a lengthy delay in plaintiff's release from a detention...

Thornton v. Snyder

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiff-prisoner's appeal of his 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights claims, grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiff's cell...

Reichley v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the Secretary of Agriculture's actions in response to an outbreak of avian influenza did...

Schrier v. Univ. of Colorado

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Denial of plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction is affirmed where his First Amendment claims, alleging retaliatory termination, failed to...

Lira v. Herrera

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
The Prison Litigation Reform Act does not mandate dismissal of an entire action that contains exhausted and unexhausted claims since the district...

Caley v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

Civil Rights, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff-employees' challenge to their employer's adoption of a dispute resolution policy is dismissed where their continued employment after receipt...