all - Opinion Summaries

HOPE v. PELZER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Corrections officers were not entitled to qualified immunity for acts of handcuffing an inmate to a hitching post, because a reasonable corrections...

DEP'T OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT & HOUSING v. SUPERIOR COURT OF STANISLAUS COUNTY (KELLER)

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
An order compelling compliance with investigative discovery, of a possible housing discrimination claim, should have been granted where a property...

ALFANO v COSTELLO

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence at trial was insufficient to establish that a corrections officer was subjected to a hostile work environment under Title VII, where the...

S.J. v. KANSAS CITY MISSOURI PUB. SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims against a school district, for actions of a school volunteer who abused a minor outside of school, was...

PEATE v. MCCANN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an inmate's action for Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations against a corrections officer, based on his facilitation of and failure to break...

MONTGOMERY v. PINCHAK

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a civil rights action based on a correctional facility's alleged indifference to an inmate's medical needs, the district court's denial of...

ESBERG v. UNION OIL CO. OF CALIFORNIA

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
California's Fair Employment and Housing Act's prohibition against age discrimination in employment does not extend to the furnishing of employee...

GOODMAN v. PENNSYLVANIA TPK. COMM'N

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a political patronage action, denial of a motion for judgment under FRCP 50, and an FRCP 59 motion for a new trial, were proper where sufficient...

US v. SMITH

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
District court's post-verdict judgments of acquittal, as to charges against police officers for conspiracy to violate an individual's civil rights, is...

KRCHNAVY v. LIMAGRAIN GENETICS CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a claim for discriminatory discharge based on age and gender, an employee failed to carry her burden of showing that the employer's legitimate...