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REGENSBURGER v. CITY OF BOWLING GREEN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Where a challenged voting apportionment scheme demonstrated a population deviation as high as 66.85%, the scheme exceeded Fourteenth Amendment Equal...

BROWN v. GILMORE

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Where police officers had probable cause to arrest and, under the circumstances, exerted reasonable force in affecting the arrest, no violation of the...

WARREN v. READING SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law
A school principal who is entrusted with the responsibility and authority normally associated with that position will ordinarily be "an appropriate...

JOHNSON v. CITY OF AIKEN

Civil Rights
Under 42 USC 1988, a party that recovers only nominal damages in a civil rights action is not entitled to attorney's fees.

EADS v. HANKS

Civil Rights
A prisoner who was aware that a member of a prison disciplinary hearing was in a romantic relationship with a witness waives any due process objection...

BILLINGSLEY v. CITY OF OMAHA

Civil Rights
Evidence that a burglary suspect made a sudden shoulder movement movement and that his hand was concealed from a police officer will support a jury...

BARRIOS v. CALIFORNIA INTERSCHOLASTIC FED'N

Civil Rights
Under 42 USC 12205 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a settlement agreement in plaintiff's favor that included monetary damages and an...

AM. FAMILY ASS'N, INC. v. CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
City resolution expressing disagreement with advertising campaign sponsored by religious groups that condemned homosexuality did not violate the...

TUCKER v. EVANS

Civil Rights
Prison guard, who saw two prisoners arguing over location of local town, is entitled to qualified immunity for failure to protect one prisoner from...

SPEER v. CITY OF WAYNE

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A municipality may be liable for discharging an employee without providing him a name-clearing hearing, even if no individual city employee is liable...