all - Opinion Summaries

RANN v. CHAO

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a claim alleging denial of promotion in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction is...

BRAUN v. BALDWIN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a suit for infringement of free speech, false arrest, and excessive use of force, grant of summary judgment to the defendants on all counts is...

MARONI v. PEMI-BAKER REG'L SCH DIST

Civil Rights, Education Law, Family Law, Juvenile Law
The district court erred by dismissing claims brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) because parents brought the case...

BROOKS v. AMUREN UE

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A Title VII and 42 U.S.C. section 1981 plaintiff failed to show that defendant's stated reasons for failure to promote him were pretexts for race...

GRIM v. RHINEBECK CENT. SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law
Where plaintiff's right to a free appropriate public education was not in any way endangered by delays in the state's administrative review process,...

DETZ v. GREINER INDUS., INC.

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's failure to adequately reconcile two contrary positions (one to SSA and the other to the trial court) concerning his ability to perform a...

DOE v. STATE OF NEBRASKA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
State and state agencies were not entitled to 11th Amendment immunity to claims by HIV-positive mother and her family alleging Rehabilitation Act...

KRILICH v. FED. BUREAU OF PRISONS

Administrative Law, Civil Rights
Because the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires plaintiff to exhaust his administrative remedies and he concedes that he failed to do so, dismissal...

WHITLOCK v. MAC-GRAY, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment on ADA claims of workplace discrimination and hostile and abusive work environment is affirmed where plaintiff failed to proffer...

SMITH v. POWER

Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
An assistant city attorney was entitled to absolute immunity from a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit arising from the attorney's decision to initiate...