all - Opinion Summaries

RICE v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Civil Rights, Sanctions
The district judge abused his discretion in dismissing plaintiff's Civil Rights case where the attorneys for the City were as guilty as plaintiff's...

SWAN v. INTERSTATE BRANDS

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
Exclusion of the parties' severance agreement as impeachment evidence was not a clear and prejudicial abuse of discretion where the timing of the...

ALFORD v. HANER

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Police officers were not entitled to qualified immunity in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim where, in light of facts and clearly established law, no...

MENA v. CITY OF SIMI VALLEY

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Police officers were not entitled to qualified immunity a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim alleging excessive force and unlawful restraint where plaintiff...

WALSH v. NAT'L COMPUTER SYS., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal in an employment discrimination claim under federal and Minnesota law, 1) district court properly determined statute of limitations had...

WEST v. SCHWEBKE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
State treatment center defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity to due process claims in a section 1983 suit by detainees deemed "sexually...

DYREK v. GARVEY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for the FAA in an employment discrimination case is affirmed where no evidence existed for a trier of fact to infer that the FAA's...

ALLISON v. SNYDER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Sentencing
42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims, alleging that the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act is being implemented unconstitutionally, are rejected as the...

ELDRIDGE v. GIBSON

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
A district attorney general and private attorneys are entitled to absolute immunity from a suit arising from a section 1983 plaintiff's overturned...

KOZOHORSKY v. HARMON

Administrative Law, Civil Rights
Dismissal without prejudice of a prisoner's section 1983 claim was appropriate, for failure to exhaust administrative remedies on claims against a...