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HIGGS v. CARVER

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a civil rights suit where prisoner was placed in solitary confinement for 34 days, because the record does not disclose whether prisoner was placed...

SAN FRANCISCO NAACP v. SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCH. DIST.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
A civil rights plaintiff, based solely on its status as a prevailing party in an original action, may be eligible to recover attorney's fees under 42...

CROCKETT v. ABRAHAM

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against the Dept. of Energy, alleging a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act for the failure to promote plaintiff to Ass't....

RAMSEY v. HENDERSON

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
While it was error for the district court not to consider acts of discrimination falling outside of the actionable period as relevant background...

CHESTNUT v. CITY OF LOWELL

Civil Rights, Remedies, Government Law
Although municipalities are immune from punitive damages awards under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, city lost the benefit of immunity, where it failed to...

REYES v. CITY OF RICHMOND

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
Where a defendant's arguments on the issue of qualified immunity challenge the genuineness, rather than the materiality, of the factual disputes in a...

MARSHALL v. TESKE

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Where plaintiff in section 1983 claim was a young boy who police detained and arrested even after a search produced no evidence linking him to a...

REGIONAL ECON. CMTY. ACTION PROGRAM, INC. v. CITY OF MIDDLETOWN

Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment on each of plaintiffs' claims, brought under the Fair Housing Act, the ADA, and the Rehabilitation Act, was erroneous in so far as...

COONS v. CASABELLA

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Where officer knew that plaintiff had been involved in an accident, in which he drove his truck into a telephone pole in the early morning hours, and...

WALKER v. PRUDENTIAL PROP. AND CASUALTY INS. CO.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Because plaintiffs produced no evidence that defendant discriminated against them, district court's grant of summary judgment affirmed; since...