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AGUON v. COMMONWEALTH PORTS AUTH.

Civil Rights, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law
A public corporation created by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to operate and manage its ports, is not a person for purposes of 42...

CHRISTINA A. v. BLOOMBERG

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Juvenile Law
District court's approval of a settlement agreement did not, by itself, create an enforceable judgement or a consent decree, so, because a juvenile...

CROCKETT v. CUMBERLAND COLLEGE

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
A city co-chief of police was entitled to qualified immunity from an action in civil rights and tort, arising from plaintiff's arrest, where probable...

JOCKS v. TAVERNIER

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a false arrest claim, summary judgment was proper for an officer who observed conduct that amounted to an assault and established probable cause...

CAMACHO v. BRANDON

Civil Rights, Elections, Labor & Employment Law
A city council employee and legislative aide to a council member could not maintain a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights action for his firing in...

LANE v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The district court appropriately denied the state of Tennessee's motion to dismiss an action brought by disabled persons seeking to vindicate their...

DRESSLER v. DANIEL

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A Title VII claim alleging retaliation was not actionable where plaintiff failed to adduce evidence to support a causal connection between the...

ALLEN v. CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTH.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Title VII racial discrimination in employment claims were actionable where the genuineness of an employer's noninvidious reasons for passing claimants...

DEDMON v. STALEY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence at trial supporting termination, and dearth of evidence supporting the presence of an unlawful motive for terminating an employee,...

TRI, INC. v. BOISE CASCADE OFFICE PRODS., INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence of an agreement or conspiracy between defendants to restrict sale of plaintiff's products to other...