all - Opinion Summaries

JESERITZ v. POTTER

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Where discharged postal worker did not offer evidence that he engaged in a statutorily protected activity, an essential element of his retaliation...

JOHNSON v. ELK LAKE SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In determining whether to admit evidence of prior sexual misconduct under Federal Rule of Evidence 415, the court need not make a finding under Rule...

VILLIARIMO v. ALOHA ISLAND AIR, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A complaint alleging termination due to discrimination and other unlawful animuses was properly dismissed because employees were lawfully terminated...

CHUTE v. WALKER

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In granting motions to dismiss certain counts against named and unnamed police officers, the district court should not have dismissed the complaint in...

CLARK v. PORTAGE COUNTY

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Family Law
Plaintiff, whose claimed interests were vague and amorphous, did not have a private right of action, deriving from Title IV-D of the Social Security...

CLAYTON v. MEIJER, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The fact that an employer discharged an African-American employee who engaged in a serious act of misconduct that resulted in injury to a coworker,...

PATTERSON v. AVERY DENNISON CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff in a gender discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 failed to meet her burden of establishing that two male...

PORTER v. NUSSLE

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
The Prison Litigation Reform Act and its exhaustion requirement are applicable to all inmate lawsuits regarding prison life, regardless of whether the...

SWIERKIEWICZ v. SOREMA N.A.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An employment discrimination complaint need not contain specific facts establishing a prima facie case under the framework set forth in McDonnell...

POLLARD v. HIGH'S OF BALTIMORE, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence that the plaintiff had to take a nine-month leave of absence from work to recuperate from back surgery did not establish that plaintiff had a...