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GILLEN v. FALLON AMBULANCE SERV., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Genuine issues of fact, including whether amputee's impairment was disabling and whether two-handed lifting was an essential or, instead, a marginal...

WILSON v. TOWN OF MENDON

Civil Rights
Liability for the excessive use of force may not be imputed to a municipality based on the alleged acts of an officer whom a plaintiff does not...

GAGNON v. SPRINT CORP.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where there was direct evidence, in the form of a statement, of reverse racial discrimination as a motivating factor in an employment decision,...

FOGLEMAN v. MERCY HOSP., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Based on the ADA's second anti-retaliation provision, 42 U.S.C. section 12203(b), a person who has not himself engaged in protected conduct may bring...

GREEN v. ADM-RS OF THE TULANE EDUC. FUND

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the Title VII context, where a supervisor's harassment of the plaintiff was not sexual, but occurred only after his consensual relationship with...

CUESTA v. SCH. BD. OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A school board cannot be held liable for allegedly unlawful arrests that result from a policy that merely calls on school officials to report criminal...

MANDERS v. LEE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Binding precedent compels the conclusion that 42 U.S.C. section 1983 excessive force claims against a sheriff in his official capacity are claims...

SIZOVA v. NAT'L INST. OF STANDARDS & TECH.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII action alleging gender and pregnancy discrimination by a university regarding the revocation of a fellowship, the plaintiff was found...

NEWMARK v. PRINCIPI

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
The Equal Access to Justice Act provides for different types of fee awards in 28 U.S.C. Sections 2412(b) and 2412(d), and because the cap on fees is...

ALLEN v. IRANON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Mt. Healthy mixed-motive analysis applies to First Amendment claims, regardless of whether plaintiff uses direct or circumstantial evidence to...