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Morris v. Silvino De La Torre

Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff-restaurant patron, who was injured by third party criminals in the parking lot of the restaurant, stood in a special relationship with the...

Delgado v. Trax Bar & Grill

Injury & Tort Law
When a bar proprietor voluntarily employs a guard on its premises, the proprietor has assumed a duty to protect its patrons from criminal assault and...

Hearns v. Terhune

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff-inmate's section 1983 suit, alleging Eighth Amendment rights violations, is reversed where he properly alleged facts that...

Rosewood Serv. Inc. v. Sunflower Diversified Serv.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In a section 1983 action, defendants, a private non-profit corporation and its president, are not entitled to assert qualified immunity because they...

WI Cmty. Serv. Inc. v. City of Milwaukee

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The district court erred when it required defendant-City, under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, to issue a...

Knafel v. Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's defamation action against defendant-newspaper is affirmed where her complaint failed to properly state a claim.

Sobieski v. Ispat Island, Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Dismissal of plaintiff's Jones Act claim is affirmed where no reasonable jury could find that defendant-employer is liable for plaintiff's injuries...

Pollard v. E.E. DuPont

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a wrongful discharge case, the district court did not err in concluding that defendant was liable for the tort of intentional infliction of...

Schroder v. City of Fort Thomas

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiffs' section 1983 claim, alleging that defendant-City violated their due process rights by failing to act upon their request to lower the speed...

Wheeler v. BL Dev. Corp.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a wrongful termination action, the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of defendant-employer where plaintiffs failed to come...