all - Opinion Summaries

Castaneda v. Olsher

Injury & Tort Law
In a premises liability action, the grant of defendant's motion for nonsuit is reversed where the evidence was sufficient to establish that defendant...

Velez-Diaz v. Vega-Irizarry

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action resulting from the wrongful death of an FBI agent, the district court erred in denying the individual defendants qualified immunity from...

Deloughery v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment dispute alleging retaliation, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is affirmed over defendant's challenge to the district court's...

Myers v. Potter

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights action, summary judgment for defendant-police officer on the ground of qualified immunity is reversed where a...

McClain v. Am. Economy Ins.

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Plaintiffs lacked standing to obtain class action relief for defendants' alleged discriminatory policies which denied homeowners insurance to the...

Johnson v. AT&T Corp.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination dispute alleging race and age discrimination, summary judgment in favor of defendant-employer is affirmed where it...

Zutz v. Case Corp.

Injury & Tort Law
The district court properly determined that the tort of reckless misrepresentation exists in Minnesota.

Brown v. Valoff

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
A prisoner's administrative remedies are exhausted once he has either received all available remedies at an intermediate level or review or been...

Westefer v. Snyder

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
The district court improperly dismissed plaintiff-inmate's section 1983 action which alleged that his transfer to another correctional facility...

Phillips v. US

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a negligence claim, summary judgment in favor of defendant-United States Postal Service is reversed where the district court erred in finding that...