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INYO COUNTY v. PAIUTE-SHOSHONE INDIANS OF THE BISHOP CMTY.

United States Supreme Court
Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law
An Indian tribe did not qualify as a "person" who may sue under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, under the circumstances, in an action asserting sovereign...
05/19/2003 02-281

DOTSON v. WILKINSON

United States Sixth Circuit
Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Certain prisoner 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims against the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, asserting improprieties in parole proceedings, are procedural...
05/19/2003 00-4033/51

ROE v. KEADY

United States Tenth Circuit
Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law
Social services employees were entitled to qualified immunity in adoptive parents' 42 U.S.C. section 1981 and 1983 suit for failure to conduct a...
05/15/2003 02-3167

BRASS v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

United States Ninth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A county did not violate 42 U.S.C. section 1983 by continuing plaintiff's incarceration for 39 hours after a state trial judge had ordered him...
05/15/2003 01-57249

TADEME v. SAINT CLOUD STATE UNIV.

United States Eighth Circuit
Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A university professor's claims of discrimination in tenure and promotion were barred by the statute of limitations, as decisions were discrete acts...
05/15/2003 02-1097

WILKERSON v. STALDER

United States Fifth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Denial of prison officials' qualified immunity motions to dismiss inmates' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims, arising from extended lockdowns and "sham"...
05/14/2003 02-30516

KRUG v. LUTZ

United States Ninth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
A 1973 consent decree entered into by a group of inmates did not bar a prisoner's claim based on exclusion of incoming publications, and the prisoner...
05/14/2003 01-16033

ALEJO v. HELLER

United States Seventh Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's sua sponte dismissal of a claim of unconstitutional discipline was proper where a prisoner failed to allege that defendant personally...
05/13/2003 01-1573

MILLER v. TEXAS TECH UNIV. HEALTH SCIENCES CTR.

United States Fifth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A state-run university was entitled to sovereign immunity from an administrator/professor's Rehabilitation Act section 504 claim, and the university...
05/13/2003 02-10190

THARLING v. CITY OF PORT LAVACA

United States Fifth Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A First Amendment retaliation claim was not actionable where evidence did not show that a city council termination vote was motivated by a police...
05/13/2003 02-20061

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