all - Opinion Summaries

BRYANT v. AIKEN REG'L MED. CTRS.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
The jury's award of punitive damages in a failure to promote action based on racial and retaliatory conduct is reversed where employer had an...

ENDRES v. US

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a joined action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, contending that Indiana discriminated against plaintiffs on account of their...

RAMIREZ v. GALAZA

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant may challenge the conditions of his confinement under section 1983 because his claim, if successful, would not necessarily invalidate a...

GRANT v. CITY OF LONG BEACH

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against police officers alleging false arrest, evidence at the time of plaintiff's arrest, including the...

AJAYI v. ARAMARK BUS. SERVS., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff has raised a genuine issue of material fact to preclude summary judgment of her retaliation claims advanced under Title VII and 42 U.S.C....

GEORGIA v. ASHCROFT

Civil Rights, Elections
A section 2 vote dilution violation under the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. section 1973 is not an independent reason to deny section 5 preclearance....

LAWRENCE v. TEXAS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Texas law criminalizing two people of the same sex from engaging in private, consensual sex is unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court's decision in...

BURGE v. ST. TAMMANY PARISH

Civil Rights
A judgment against a sheriff in his official capacity for depriving plaintiff of his right to a fair trial is reversed, where there is insufficient...

CLIFFORD v. CHANDLER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A police officer's racial voice identification of one the voices that the officer heard in apartment as belonging to a black male will not necessarily...

HERNANDEZ v. SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law
Because defendants cannot satisfy any of the applicable exceptions to 28 U.S.C. section 1447(d), there is no appellate jurisdiction for this Civil...