all - Opinion Summaries

DE LLANO v. BERGLUND

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where a dismissal notice given to a professor listed a number of reasons for termination, all of which were substantiated in two separate hearings,...

PRICE v. FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The EEOC's findings of racial discrimination are not dispositive in later racial discrimination suits and, in a case where the EEOC never conducted...

WESTON-SMITH v. COOLEY DICKINSON HOSP., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A supervisor's silence in the face of plaintiff-employee's accusation that the supervisor told another employee the plaintiff was fired because she...

SCHROEDER v. HAMILTON SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law
Title VII does not provide for a private right of action based on sexual orientation discrimination, and the court declined to import Title VII...

HUNT v. NEBRASKA PUB. POWER DIST.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Where supervisor and plaintiff employee did almost the exact same work, the district court erred in ruling as a matter of law that no reasonable jury...

NATIONAL HOME EQUITY MORTGAGE ASS-N v. FACE

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights
Once the district court found that the plaintiff had a federally enforceable right under the Parity Act, it correctly determined that the plaintiff...

QUINN v. CONSOL. FREIGHTWAYS CORP. OF DELAWARE

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence
Evidentiary decisions of the trial court in the plaintiff's sexual harassment action, including a discovery sanction that effectively precluded...

RILEY v. OLK-LONG

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The jury had sufficient evidence on which to base its finding that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the risk that a prison guard, who...

LEVITAN v. ASHCROFT

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
To determine whether a prison rule violates the First Amendment by preventing inmates from observing religious practice, a trial court must make a...

TOLLETT v. CITY OF KEMAH

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
The district court exceeds the Circuit Court's mandate on remand to calculate sanctions to be imposed for discovery violations when it: (1)...