all - Opinion Summaries

BENNETT v. DR. PEPPER/SEVEN UP, INC.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A motion for reconsideration under Rule 60(b), of dismissal of a race discrimination action, was properly denied after a pro se plaintiff failed to...

THOMAS v. TEXAS DEP'T OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a claim for denial of a promotion and housing based on sex, race, and complaints to the EEOC, jury instructions did not impermissibly lead the jury...

MARTINEZ v. TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Even if Texas Death Row prisoners' challenges to state's "policy" of appointing ineffective state habeas counsel could be distinguished from their...

CARROLL v. XEROX CORP.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Claim alleging disability discrimination in employment, in violation of the ADA and Massachusetts law, was not actionable, where the record indicated...

PRICE v. SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, International Law
In a suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, plaintiffs failed to state a claim for hostage-taking adequate to abrogate sovereign immunity...

SCH. DIST. OF WISCONSIN DELLS v. Z.S.

Civil Rights, Education Law
A district judge may have inappropriately made an independent determination, that a school district did not violate the Individuals with Disabilities...

FARMER v. CLEVELAND PUB. POWER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
A First Amendment employment retaliation claim is not actionable where the employee failed to show that her speech was a substantial factor in the...

MAHON v. CROWELL

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employee's claim that the Tennessee Valley Authority fired him because of a disability, a back condition did not meet the statutory test for...

JIN v METRO. LIFE INS. CO.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employee's claim that she was sexually harassed by her supervisor, the jury should have been allowed to consider as "tangible employment...

CORTEZ v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Civil Rights, Government Law
Because a county sheriff acts as the final policymaker for the county in establishing and implementing policies and procedures for safekeeping of...