all - Opinion Summaries

ROGERS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A police officer's Title VII hostile work environment sexual harassment claim against a city was not actionable where conduct (little more than...

BEAUCHAMP v. CITY OF NOBLESVILLE

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Police officers enjoyed qualified immunity to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims, where they had probable cause to apply for warrants to arrest plaintiff...

BELL v. IRWIN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim was not actionable where police officers' use of "beanbag" rounds in deterring plaintiff was not excessive force under...

CAVALIERI v. SHEPARD

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
A police officer was not entitled to qualified immunity in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim alleging deliberate indifference to an inmate's suicide...

BROAM v. BOGAN

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The interests of justice would be served by allowing 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claimants, whose convictions were overturned, to further amend their...

BATTEN v. GOMEZ

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law
Investigators were entitled to qualified immunity on 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims alleging 1) failure to comply with North Carolina extradition laws...

MAINE SCH. ADMIN. DIST. NO. 35 v. MR. & MRS. R.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Education Law
Parents who successfully resist, in an independent legal action, the overturning of a stay-put placement on the ground of alleged dangerousness of a...

MARTIN v. SHELTON

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
An inmate's amended complaint failed to satisfy the imminent-danger-of-serious-physical-injury exception to the Prison Litigation Reform Act's "three...

MCLAUGHLIN v. HOLT PUB. SCH. BD. OF EDUC.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
In an action under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the district court's analysis of the "least restrictive environment" requirement...

WILLIAMS v. HANSEN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of qualified immunity on plaintiffs' equal protection claims is reversed, and defendant police officer is entitled to immunity because he...