all - Opinion Summaries

Dwyer v. Cappell

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In an action to enjoin enforcement of an attorney-conduct guideline that bans advertising with quotations from judicial opinions unless the opinions...

Cherry v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
In a constitutional challenge to defendant-city's decision changing the manner in which annual increases to pension benefits are calculated, which...

Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-employer on plaintiff's claims of interference with the exercise of her rights under the Family and Medical...

Ringgold-Lockhart v. County of Los Angeles

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Sanctions
The district court's order declaring plaintiffs vexatious litigants and imposing a pre-filing order is vacated and remanded, where: 1) in light of the...

Garcia-Gonzalez v. Puig-Morales

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Government Contracts, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendant in an action in which plaintiff alleges First and Fourteenth Amendment violations and seeks compensatory and punitive...

McGrath v. Tavares

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendant-police officers in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, alleging that defendant-police officers used excessive force in...

Dunn v. Trustees of Boston University

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant employer on plaintiff's claims that defendant discharged him because of his age in violation of the...

Mirabilio v. Regional School District 16

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's claim that she was entitled to notice and a hearing prior to defendant-school district reduction of her teaching position to...

Bostic v. Schaefer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Virginia's same-sex marriage bans impermissibly infringe on its citizens' fundamental right to marry, and therefore, the district court's grant of...

American Atheists, Inc. v. Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action challenging the display in the National September 11 Museum of an artifact denominated as "The...