all - Opinion Summaries

Holland v. Goord

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiff-inmate's claims that defendants unconstitutionally burdened his religious exercise when they...

Avila v. City of Los Angeles

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment in favor of plaintiff-police officer who claimed the defendant's police department fired him in retaliation for testifying in a Fair Labor...

Constitution Party of Pennsylvannia v. Aichele

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action challenging the constitutionality of two provisions of Pennsylvania's election code that regulate ballot...

Powell v. Weiss

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Dismissal of plaintiff-inmate's suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) violated his...

Lakin v. Barnhart

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action in which plaintiff-inmates allege that defendants acted with deliberate indifference to a...

Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Brewer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Transportation
In an action challenging an Arizona policy which prohibits recipients of the federal program called the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" from...

Anderson v. City and County of San Francisco

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-county in a Title VII case in which plaintiff-deputies challenged a policy prohibiting male deputies from...

Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc. v. Sorrell

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Government Law, Media Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants, Vermont officials charged with enforcing Vermont elections statutes, in a constitutional challenge to...

People v. Marquan M.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Education Law
Defendant's conviction for cyberbullying after anonymously posting sexual information about fellow classmates on a publicly-accessible internet...

Sandoval v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Civil Rights
Summary judgment in favor of defendant police department and officers in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendant-officers violated...