all - Opinion Summaries

McClendon v. McCaskey

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983, defendant-police officers are entitled to qualified immunity where their reliance on the...

San Jose Charter v. City of San Jose

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, denial of defendant-police officers' motions for qualified immunity is affirmed where the unlawfulness of...

Beard v. Whitmore Lake Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action stemming from an unconstitutional strip search of high school students, defendants are entitled to qualified...

Murray v. Earle

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Juvenile Law
Plaintiff's claim, alleging defendants unconstitutionally coerced her confession, may not be maintained where she cannot demonstrate that the acts of...

Talal v. White

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The district court's dismissal of plaintiff-inmate's civil rights complaint, alleging improper exposure to tobacco smoke in the prison, is reversed...

Scheeler v. City of St. Cloud

Injury & Tort Law, Civil Rights
In a wrongful death suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendant-City is affirmed where...

J.S. v. Isle of Wight County Sch. Bd.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
The district court erroneously held that plaintiff's claim under the Rehabilitation Act is barred on account of his failure to comply with the...

Smith v. City of Jackson, Mississippi

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Although the "disparate-impact" theory of recovery, for cases brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is cognizable under the Age...

Chavez v. City of Albuquerque

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the district court properly dismissed plaintiff's jury verdict as a sanction for perjuring himself during...

Cummings v. Connell

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law
When nominal damages are awarded in a civil rights class action, every member of the class whose constitutional rights were violated is entitled to...