all - Opinion Summaries

Beard v. Whitmore Lake Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action stemming from an unconstitutional strip search of high school students, defendants are entitled to qualified...

Boeken v. Philip Morris, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a personal injury action alleging injuries caused by cigarette addiction, judgment in favor of plaintiff is affirmed; however, the award of...

N. Laminate Sales, Inc. v. Davis

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit alleging tortious inducement to extend credit, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is affirmed where the district court correctly...

Murray v. Earle

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Juvenile Law
Plaintiff's claim, alleging defendants unconstitutionally coerced her confession, may not be maintained where she cannot demonstrate that the acts of...

Bezanson v. Thomas

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit for negligent representation is reversed where the evidence presented by plaintiff establishes that, but for the...

Scheeler v. City of St. Cloud

Injury & Tort Law, Civil Rights
In a wrongful death suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendant-City is affirmed where...

Burnham v. Humphrey Hospitality Reit Trust

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
The district court properly dismissed plaintiff's negligence claim where she failed to commence the suit prior to the running of the statute of...

J.S. v. Isle of Wight County Sch. Bd.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
The district court erroneously held that plaintiff's claim under the Rehabilitation Act is barred on account of his failure to comply with the...

Smith v. City of Jackson, Mississippi

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Although the "disparate-impact" theory of recovery, for cases brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is cognizable under the Age...

Catipovic v. Peoples Cmty. Health Clinic

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a tortious interference with contract action, judgment as a matter of law in favor of defendant is affirmed where a reasonable jury would not have...