all - Opinion Summaries

JONES v. CITY OF MONROE

Civil Rights, Government Law
The district court did not err in determining that an ADA plaintiff was not excluded from parking benefits offered by a city, and did not err in...

BELL v. CLACKAMAS COUNTY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
A Title VII plaintiff offered specific and substantial circumstantial evidence that he was terminated because of complaints regarding racial profiling...

KARAM v. CITY OF BURBANK

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Appellant's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims, arising from charges in connection with refusal to leave a city council meeting, fail for lack of "seizure"...

WILLIAMS v. SENIFF

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
An assistant police chief did not have a protected First Amendment right to make certain statements to the press, thus his claim of termination in...

BOWERS v. NAT'L COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASS'N

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Sports Law
In a complex action involving twelve universities that ceased recruiting plaintiff when they were informed that he did not meet NCAA requirements,...

HERNANDEZ v. KEANE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence
The district court's grant of defendants' Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law, and dismissing plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit...

A.W. v. JERSEY CITY PUB. SCH.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
By the acceptance of federal financial assistance, state defendants have waived any constitutional immunity from claims under section 504 of the...

US v. CHRISTIAN

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a former police officer's appeal from conviction for deprivation of rights under color of law in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 242, no factual...

SHOCKLEY v. SVOBODA

Civil Rights, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Comments to fellow professors were made in the scope of employment, so that defamation and invasion of privacy counterclaims are defeated; 42 U.S.C....

JOHNSON v. DALEY

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Section 803(d) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, setting both absolute and relative limits on attorneys' fee shifting, is constitutional as being...