all - Opinion Summaries

FAIR HOUSING OF MARIN v. COMBS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Community fair housing organization suffered injury sufficient to convey first-party standing to sue by utilizing resources to identify and fight...

KITCHEN v. UPSHAW

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Plaintiff inmate was not denied liberty without due process when jail denied him work release, as prisoners do not enjoy a constitutionally-protected...

PURZE v. VILLAGE OF WINTHROP HARBOR

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In action for denial of equal protection for refusal to approve plats of a subdivision plan, summary judgment was proper where plaintiffs failed to...

HAGER v. PIKE COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A question of fact remains whether teacher's demotion and reassignment was in retaliation for her political conduct, and defendant school board is not...

ECONOMOU v. CALDERA

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Because plaintiff first filed claims formally with the Merit Systems Protection Board, and then abandoned his complaint in that forum, dismissal based...

US v. HOWELL

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Because the district court violated Fed. R. Evid. 609(a)(1) in refusing to admit evidence for impeachment purposes of the nature of the prior felony...

WEBB v. ADA COUNTY

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Class Actions
Class action attorney fees were compensable under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, however, the amount set by the district court was vacated because...

MCCASKILL v. SCI MGMT. CORP.

Civil Rights, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Because attorney's fee clause in arbitration agreement between plaintiff and her employer purports to prevent plaintiff from effectively vindicating...

BUTERA v. COTTEY

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Because plaintiff failed to show that sheriff had actual notice of a substantial risk of harm to him, or that prior to the date he was sexually...

VIRTS v. CONSOL. FREIGHTWAYS CORP. OF DELAWARE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where plaintiff truck driver's proposals to accommodate his religious belief against going on sleeper runs with females had the potential of adversely...