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Harris v. Quinn

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under Illinois' Home Services Program (Rehabilitation Program), which allows Medicaid recipients who would normally need institutional care to hire a...

Dept. of Fair Employment and Housing v. Ottovich

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Sanctions
In an action alleging defendant engaged in housing discrimination, the trial court's finding that defendant engaged in abusive discovery tactics,...

The Arc of California v. Douglas

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Health Law
In an appeal from the district court's denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction and its dismissal of Medicaid Act claims brought by...

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) does not permit the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demand that...

Hildebrand v. Allegheny County

Labor & Employment Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Dismissal of plaintiff-government employee's complaint alleging age discrimination is: 1) affirmed in part, where a state or local government employee...

Brown v. Daikin America Inc.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint alleging that defendants discriminated against him on the basis of his race and national origin in violation of...

McCullen v. Coakley

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Massachusetts' Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act, which makes it a crime to knowingly stand on a public way or sidewalk within 35 feet of an...

Snyder v. Gaudet

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's rights to equal protection when he was fined under a local land use...

Tearpock-Martini v. Borough of Shickshinny

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of a civil rights action challenging defendant's approval of the placement of a religious-themed sign on municipal property near plaintiff's...

Castine v. Zurlo

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action in which plaintiff alleges that defendants violated her First Amendment rights by removing her...