all - Opinion Summaries

PUGH v. GOORD

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a section 1983 action alleging that a prison refused to allow Shiite Muslim plaintiffs to hold their own congregate prayer services separate from...

WILLIAMSON v. INDIANA UNIV.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A non-tenured assistant university professor failed to offer a valid justification for waiting a year to file a charge of discrimination with the EEOC...

TRAMMEL v. SIMMONS FIRST BANK OF SEARCY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Social contact between district court judge's law clerk and one of defendant's officers did not require the district court judge to recuse himself...

MCCULLAH v. GADERT

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The district court erred in dismissing that part of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint alleging that a police officer Gadert violated plaintiff's...

VOLOVSEK v. WISCONSIN DEP'T OF AGRIC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A Title VII sex discrimination plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to overcome summary judgment with respect to a claim arising from denial of...

SALLIER v. BROOKS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a state prisoner's civil rights action, the question of what constitutes "legal mail" is one of law and the district court erred in submitting the...

SUTHERLAND v. MICHIGAN DEP'T OF TREASURY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment and dismissal of claims in a "reverse" race discrimination case arising from denial of promotions, brought pursuant to Title VII of...

RODGERS v. BANKS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Although the Eleventh Amendment bars a section 1983 plaintiff from seeking money damages for termination from employment at a state mental hospital,...

M.A. v. STATE-OPERATED SCH. DIST. OF THE CITY OF NEWARK

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In an action alleging violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the state of New Jersey waived its sovereign immunity from...

IN RE: US

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In refusing to dismiss a civil rights count against a former police officer, the district judge was telling the government which crimes to prosecute,...