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WELLS v. COLORADO DEP'T OF TRANSP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Alleged misconduct did not rise to the level of an adverse action subject to Title VII, and plaintiff failed to establish the necessary causal...

MERIWETHER v. CARAUSTAR PACKAGING CO.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Sexual harassment claim was not actionable as a lone grabbing incident and subsequent encounter did not equal severe or pervasive conduct to alter...

BALDERSTON v. FAIRBANKS MORSE ENGINE DIVISION OF COLTEC INDUS.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Even if plaintiffs established a prima facie case under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, they failed to show that employer's stated reasons...

INTERSTATE CLEANING CORP. v. COMMERCIAL UNDERWRITERS INS. CO.

Civil Rights, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff failed to provide its general commercial liability insurer with timely notice of a sexual harassment lawsuit, and the insurer was not...

M.P. v. INDEP. SCH. DIST. NO. 721

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
Parents failed to exhaust administrative remedies under the Individuals with Disabilities Act, by failing to request a due process hearing while the...

DOE v. HECK

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
Some actions taken by Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare workers in investigating corporal punishment at a private Christian school were...

BLEAVINS v. BARTELS

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Record is inadequate to determine whether trailers seized during a tax seizure were located within the curtilage of defendant's home, and whether...

POUILLON v. LITTLE

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
A jury award in favor of plaintiff for nominal damages does not support an award of attorney's fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1988, and an...

BUKOWSKI v. CITY OF AKRON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Plaintiffs seeking to hold government officials responsible for acts of private violence have not made out a constitutional violation against city...

MITCHELL v. IOWA PROT. & ADVOCACY SERVS., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Employee's termination did not violate the ADA, the Iowa Civil Rights Act of 1965, or Iowa public policy, as plaintiff failed to create a genuine...