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BRYSON v. SHUMWAY

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Health Law
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arises from New Hampshire's operation of an acquired brain disorders Medicaid waiver program, in failing to furnish...

BELL v. JOHNSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Prison guards are not entitled to qualified immunity to a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim that they shook down his cell and confiscated...

FARM LABOR ORGANIZING COMM. v. OHIO STATE HIGHWAY PATROL

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
A state trooper was not entitled to qualified immunity as to Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims arising from claims that he targeted plaintiffs...

ZAFFUTO v. CITY OF HAMMOND

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A jury had sufficient testimony to infer that an assistant police chief recorded an officer's phone conversation in violation of the Fourth Amendment....

PRISMA ZONA EXPLORATORIA DE PUERTO RICO, INC. v. CALDERON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Contracts
An entity's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, that defendants' refusal to carry through with transfer of assets and funding in a transaction was motivated...

LAWRENCE v. NORRIS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Plaintiff's claim, that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his safety in that they failed to provide adequate prison security, stated an...

KREIN v. NORRIS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Plaintiff's claim, that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his safety in that they failed to provide adequate prison security, stated an...

ALBRECHTSEN v. BD. OF REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN SYS.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence did not support a jury's conclusion that a university retaliated against a professor for taking a stand against sex discrimination, where a...

KOSKI v. STANDEX INT'L CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim was not actionable where a former employee failed to demonstrate that defendant's stated reasons for...

MERCER v. CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Probationary officer was not similarly situated to police captain, and differences in their punishment did not create an equal protection violation....