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Warren v. City of Athens

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a section 1983 action, defendant-City violated plaintiff's procedural due process rights when it installed barricades that restricted access to...

Jones v. Haberman

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's section 1983 suit, alleging that defendant-social worker unlawfully seized her and demanded that she leave her mother's care,...

Constantine v. Rectors and Visitors of George Mason University

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Eleventh Amendment does not bar plaintiff's disability discrimination and First Amendment retaliation claims where Congress validly abrogated the...

Karraker v. Rent-A-Center, Inc.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, which is used to measure a potential employee's personality traits, is a "medical examination" under...

Jethroe v. Omnova Solutions, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's title VII claim is judicially estopped on the ground that she failed to disclose her pending EEOC charge and potential lawsuit during a...

McGow v. McCurry

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
The district court erred in applying Georgia law instead of Michigan law in interpreting insurance policies where all three policies in issue were...

Gibson v. N.J. Dep't of Law and Public Safety

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
The limitations period for section 1983 false arrest and false imprisonment claims begins to run on the night of arrest and detention.

Addiction Specialists, Inc. v. Township of Hampton

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
The federal district court abused its discretion by abstaining from exercising jurisdiction, pursuant to Younger v. Harrris, 401 U.S. 37 (1071), over...

Sissoko v. US

Civil Rights, Immigration Law, Injury & Tort Law
The district court's grant of summary adjudication to plaintiff on his false arrest claim is affirmed where it would have been clear to a reasonable...

Coons v. Mineta

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
The district court erred when it dismissed plaintiff's untimely employment discrimination suit since he made a cognizable threshold claim for...