all - Opinion Summaries

JOHNSON v. RODRIGUES

Civil Rights, Family Law
A claim based upon a Fourteenth Amendment deprivation is not proper against non-public defendants not acting under color of state law, thus a putative...

WHITNEY v. THE BD. OF EDUC. OF GRAND COUNTY

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A teacher, diagnosed as suffering from depression, stated a claim for discriminatory termination under the ADA against a school board, and private...

FOSTER v. ALLIEDSIGNAL, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A plaintiff in a retaliatory discharge case need not prove that the employer's proffered, nonretaliatory motive for termination was a factual...

RENDON v. VALLEYCREST PROD., LTD.

Civil Rights
Hearing and mobility-impaired individuals stated a valid ADA Title III claim, in alleging that operation of a game show contestant telephone hotline...

WALKER v. IVY

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In claims for deliberate indifference to an inmate's medical needs, qualified immunity in favor of correctional facility doctors was proper where...

VENEY v. WYCHE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Assuming that jail officials denied an inmate's request to move from his single-occupancy cell into a double-occupancy cell, solely because he is...

DUGAN v. ALBEMARLE COUNTY SCH. BD.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A teacher failed to offer any evidence, direct or circumstantial, leading to an inference that the school board reduced her to part-time status...

SMITH v. MENSINGER

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
An inmate's action for Eighth Amendment violations may prevail under the circumstances of an alleged beating, despite the de minimis nature of his...

CITY OF FLINT v. LEXINGTON INS. CO.

Civil Rights, Insurance Law
Based on strict construction of coverage and exclusions in a Public Officials and Employees Liability Insurance Policy, an insurer was obligated to...

BARNES v. GORMAN

Civil Rights, Remedies
Punitive damages are not available in private suits brought under section 202 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination...