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HERR v. PEQUEA TOWNSHIP

Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
Where a township participates in proceedings before other governmental agencies authorized to resolve land use issues, the township and its...

CHAMBERS v. GRAHAM, MCCLELLAND & RANSBOTTOM, L.P.A.

Civil Rights
The "catalyst theory" of success as a "prevailing party" is no longer available to support an award of attorney's fees.

WATKINS v. CITY OF BATTLE CREEK

Civil Rights
Police officers did not violate the civil rights of drug trafficking suspect by failing to determine suspect swallowed drugs before arrest, when...

DURIEX-GAUTHIER v. LOPEZ-NIEVES

Civil Rights
Personnel Officer of the Puerto Rico Ombudsman's office under 2 P.R. Laws Ann. 707 may be a political position such that the firing of the employee...

HARRIS v. ROBINSON

Civil Rights
A ten-year-old, mild to moderately retarded boy, was not deprived of his constitutional rights under 42 USC 1983 when his home room teacher made him...

MOWBRAY v. CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
Claims that a witness entered a pre-trial conspiracy to commit perjury are still subject to absolute witness immunity.

EMERY v. HUNT

Civil Rights, Elections
State claims challenging redistricting and federal claims involving the effect of the redistricting on the right to vote are closely intertwined such...

BENNETT v. MURPHY

Civil Rights
The question of whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity is distinct from whether he used unreasonable force and requires a two-step...

VIRGILI v. GILBERT

Civil Rights
For qualified immunity purposes, it is not "clearly established" that prison employees are protected from strip searches even when there is no...

VEGA v. MILLER

Civil Rights
Administrators at state-run college have qualified immunity for disciplining a professor for conducting a classroom exercise, initiated for legitimate...