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CRONE v. UNITED PARCEL SERV.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of a promotion because an employee lacked confrontational skills to supervise delivery truck drivers, did not amount to a decision based on...

BRADLEY v. ARKANSAS DEP'T OF EDUC.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
State school officials are entitled to qualified immunity because 1) facts did not show bad faith or gross misjudgment in a Rehabilitation Act claim,...

DOYLE v. CAMELOT CARE CTR., INC.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Eleventh Amendment barred 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims against Illinois Department of Children and Family Services employees, based on the...

DIXON v BURKE COUNTY, GEORGIA

Civil Rights
An insufficient causal link existed, between plaintiff's harm and defendants' conduct, to support her claim that she was subjected to gender...

WILLIAMS v. MOTOROLA, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A plaintiff may maintain a claim under the ADA of being perceived as disabled without proof of actually being disabled, but with regard to plaintiff's...

RAKITY v. DILLON PROP., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An employee did not present triable evidence of either a "record of" substantial limitation under 42 U.S.C. section 12102(2)(B), or of having been...

BECKEL v. WAL-MART ASSOC., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A threat of retaliation cannot be used as a basis for equitable estoppel to extend the statute of limitations in a Title VII suit for sexual...

DAVEY v. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Defendant should have been allowed to amend a pretrial order to assert an affirmative defense to punitive damages in a Title VII employment...

MARRERO v. GOYA OF PUERTO RICO, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An employee presented sufficient evidence that her supervisor's conduct created an objectively hostile work environment, and her employer failed to...

GARVIN v. WHEELER

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194, did not work a fundamental change in the law of qualified immunity, to allow a police officer to reopen his summary...