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MURPHY v. ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCH. DIST. BD. OF EDUC.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
When access to immediate relief is essential to a child's rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Act, parents were not required to exhaust...

HALLETT v. MORGAN

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Where plaintiff class of prisoners failed to give timely notice of intent to seek extension of all provisions of a consent decree governing care...

MCKOWAN LOWE & CO., LTD. v. JASMINE, LTD.

Civil Rights, Class Actions
The class claims of intervening class members are tolled, if a district court declines to certify a class for reasons unrelated to the appropriateness...

PASCHAL v. FLAGSTAR BANK, FSB

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
A mortgage-lending discrimination lawsuit is barred where denial of a loan occurred more than three years prior to the filing of the complaint, and no...

PASCHAL v. FLAGSTAR BANK, FSB

Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Civil Rights, Remedies
When only one set of plaintiffs ultimately prevailed in a mortgage-lending discrimination lawsuit, attorney fees and interest must be reduced to...

SCHRADER v. RAY

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Section 504(d) of the Rehabilitation Act does not incorporate the ADA definition of an "employer," and thus even employers with fewer than fifteen...

JONES v. UNION COUNTY, TENNESSEE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a claim based on the sheriff's department's failure to serve an order of protection upon plaintiff's husband, who eventually shot plaintiff, she...

DOE v. CITY OF ROSEVILLE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
A student's claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, based on sexual abuse by a public school teacher, is not actionable where claimant has not alleged the...

PEOPLE v. DEL VALLE

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
A defendant was incorrectly committed to the Department of Mental Health as a mentally disordered offender under Penal Code sections 2962 and 2966,...

TAYLOR v. BOOKS A MILLION, INC.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An employee's Title VII claims were properly dismissed, where plaintiff filed a charge with the EEOC, received a statutory notice of right to sue, and...