all - Opinion Summaries

GRANADOS v. STATE OF TEXAS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In appeals from a capital murder conviction, 1) no reasonable expectation of privacy is held by an overnight guest who has been asked to leave the...

JACOB-MUA v. VENEMAN

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In appeals under Title VII, 1) an uncompensated researcher was not an employee, 2) disparate treatment and retaliation claims failed where no adverse...

TRUESDELL v. PHILADELPHIA HOUSING AUTH.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for enforcement of rights under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, after the parties reached a settlement which was memorialized in a court...

PRYOR v. NAT'L COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASS'N

Civil Rights, Education Law, Sports Law
A claim for purposeful racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 is actionable where plaintiffs allege that the National...

US v. CHROBAK

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law
Police officer's affidavit stating that she had seen images of child pornography that defendant supposedly transmitted, and that they depicted minors...

COOKSEY v. BOYER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Disclosure that police chief was undergoing mental health treatment, and subsequent discussion of the situation, did not violate chief's...

CERROS v. STEEL TECH., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employee's Title VII suit alleging employment discrimination based on race, summary judgment for employer was proper where it was not shown that...

DIAMOND v. HOWD

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In appellant's false arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, an audiotape of her telephone conversation with a police dispatcher was properly...

OGUAJU v. US

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Inmate's request under the Freedom Of Information Act for all records held by the U.S. Marshal concerning an escaped convict turned informant, whose...

US v. AXSOM

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Where defendant was not "in custody" during an interview in his home, based on the presence of mitigating factors and absence of aggravating factors,...