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GAYLE v GONYEA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, circumstantial evidence created a genuine issue of fact as to whether corrections officials filed a false...

FORBES v. TOWNSHIP OF LOWER MERION

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
Where a summary judgment motion based on qualified immunity is denied on the ground that material facts are subject to dispute (as here in a 42 U.S.C....

JENSEN v. LANE COUNTY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff failed to show that a contract psychiatrist departed from generally accepted standards in the medical community in...

KENT v KATZ

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
A Vermont District Court finding of probable cause to arrest does not collaterally estop plaintiff from asserting, in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and...

US v. QUINONES

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 does not violate substantive and procedural due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. Eighth...

GEORGIA STATE DEP'T OF EDUC. v. DERRICK C.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law
The Georgia Administrative Procedures Act (Ga. Code section 50-13-19(b)), is the state statute of limitations most analogous to the Individuals with...

NAPIER v. PRESLICKA

Civil Rights
42 U.S.C. section 1997e(e), a provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, applies to claims that arise out of the arrest of an imprisoned...

ROSADO v. RADIO SHACK, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A Title VII gender discrimination claim, alleging plausible differential treatment, was not actionable where plaintiff failed to show that males were...

CINTRON-LORENZO v. DEPARTAMENTO DE ASUNTOS DEL CONSUMIDOR

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's order dismissing an employment discrimination case for want of diligent prosecution was not an abuse of discretion under the...

FOLEY v. COMMONWEALTH ELEC. CO.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII gender discrimination in employment action, 1) omission of a vicarious liability instruction, and 2) failure to give certain proposed...