all - Opinion Summaries

HART v. SHEAHAN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff-inmates' claim of constitutional violations related to their confinement, for failure to state a claim, is reversed where the...

NIEVES-LUCIANO v. HERNANDEZ-TORRES

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment against plaintiff's claim, alleging he was wrongfully terminated on account of his political affiliation, is affirmed where plaintiff...

WOLOSZYN v. LAWRENCE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death suit involving the jailhouse suicide of a pre-trial detainee, summary judgment in favor of defendants is affirmed where there was...

JORDAN v. THOMPSON

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit, summary judgment in favor of defendant-employer is affirmed where plaintiff failed to present sufficient...

BURRELL v. VIRGINIA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff's complaint, alleging that a summons to appear in court for refusing to provide evidence of automobile insurance at the scene of an accident...

MERCADO-ALICEA v. P.R. TOURISM CO.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiffs' suit, alleging that they were terminated and constructively discharged because of their political affiliation, is dismissed where the...

GAMMOH v. LA HAMBRA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Government Law
The district court properly dismissed plaintiff's constitutional challenges to a city ordinance requiring "adult cabaret dancers" to remain two feet...

MILLER v. EBY REALTY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit, judgment in favor of plaintiff is affirmed over defendant's challenges that 1) the evidence was insufficient, 2)...

CHAVEZ v. THOMAS & BETTS CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit, a jury verdict for plaintiff is affirmed over defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, jury...

MOORE v. ASHEVILLE

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
A defendant to a coercive state administrative proceeding must exhaust his state administrative and judicial remedies, and may not bypass them in...