all - Opinion Summaries

ANDERSON v. LARSON

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
District court erred in granting a prosecutor absolute immunity to a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim arising from plaintiff's conviction, as issues exist...

MEMS v. CITY OF ST. PAUL

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Challenges to evidentiary rulings and instructions in a Title VII race harassment and hostile work environment case are rejected. District court...

THACKER v. CITY OF COLUMBUS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Plaintiffs cannot show a constitutional violation occurred when city law enforcement and paramedics came to their home in response to a 911 call...

VERDECIA v. OFFICER ADAMS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Bureau of Prisons investigative agents were entitled to qualified immunity in an action alleging that they incarcerated plaintiff under conditions...

ROSKA v. PETERSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
Plaintiffs adequately alleged that social workers violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when, in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, they...

TAYLOR v. ADS, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in a race discrimination claim under Title VII was proper where claimant was not an employee of defendants, and a 42 U.S.C. section...

STATON v. BOEING CO.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions
The district court acted within its discretion in certifying an employment discrimination case as a class action under FRCP 23(a). Parties to a class...

SCHUSTER v. LUCENT TECHS., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Business reasons offered by an employer for a reduction-in-force provided a legitimate non-discriminatory reason for plaintiff's termination under the...

OSTAD v. OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES UNIV.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former hospital resident's claims that termination from a residency program was in retaliation for questioning of a doctor's billing practices,...

FENNEY v. DAKOTA, MINNESOTA & E. R.R. CO.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
A former railroad engineer produced sufficient evidence of 1) impairment which substantially limited the major life activity of caring for himself...