all - Opinion Summaries

JOHNSON v. GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Summary judgment was improperly granted to the defendant on claims that Florida's felon disenfranchisement law was adopted with a discriminatory...

YOUNGBLOOD v. DEWEESE

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
Two state Representatives' acts of allocating the General Assembly's office-staffing appropriation among individual Representatives was a legislative...

EPPS v. CITY OF PINE LAWN

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment was properly granted because employee failed to establish that the city perceived him to be disabled within the meaning of the ADA or...

NICKLIN v. HENDERSON

Civil Rights, Judgement Enforcement, Labor & Employment Law
District court properly refused to enforce the final order of the EEOC, because an antecedent settlement agreement with plaintiff's employer barred...

FOLEY v. UNIV. OF HOUSTON SYS.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An employee's claim that he was subjected to retaliation because he complained of race discrimination is a cognizable claim under 42 U.S.C. section...

HAYUT v. STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK

Civil Rights, Education Law
Where a professor repeatedly referred to plaintiff student as "Monica" due to her alleged likeness to Monica Lewinsky, claims of harassment and...

BUTLER v. CITY OF CAMDEN

Civil Rights
District court erred in denying plaintiff's request to question the venire panel regarding potential law enforcement bias, because there may have been...

SALINO v. CIMINO

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
County Attorney did not arbitrarily or capriciously deny a taxpayer-paid defense to the plaintiff per Suffolk County Code section 35-3(A). The record...

HILL v. POTTER

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
District court properly dismissed plaintiff's suit against his employer, ruling that his claims under the Postal Career Executive Service and the...

US v. BROWN

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In claiming that the prosecutor exercised a peremptory challenge against a black venire member on the basis of her race, defendant failed to show that...