all - Opinion Summaries

BERNSTEIN v. LOPEZ

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
School board members are protected by qualified immunity from claims by former school principals and vice-principals after reassignment, as plaintiffs...

WOOD v. KESLER

Constitutional Law, Transportation
A state trooper is entitled to qualified immunity on the plaintiff's section 1983 claims and discretionary-function immunity on false arrest claims...

ATLANTA JOURNAL AND CONSTITUTION v. CITY OF ATLANTA DEP'T OF AVIATION

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Media Law
A government agency, statutorily charged to be self-sufficient and acting in such proprietary capacity, is permitted to assess profit-conscious fees...

SMITH v. SIEGELMAN

Constitutional Law
Public servants, who are being sued for money damages in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, are entitled to qualified immunity...

HAWKINS v. SARASOTA COUNTY SCH. BD.

Constitutional Law, Education Law
Where student-on-student harassment was not so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it systemically deprived the victims of access to the...

PEOPLE EX REL KERR (COUNTY OF ORANGE)

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
A county charter provision allowing voters in a supervisorial district to elect a replacement to fill a vacancy in the board of supervisors (1)...

JAMES v. CITY OF CORONADO

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
An administrative appeal under Government Code section 3304, subdivision (b), a provision of the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act,...

EPPS v. CREDITNET, INC.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
An Indiana Small Claims Court judgment of civil damages for check deception was a valid state court judgment, thus the Rooker-Feldman doctrine denies...

SKAARUP v. CITY OF N. LAS VEGAS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Adverse employment actions did not abridge a fire marshall's exercise of free speech, and a reclassification of his position did not amount to...

FERGUSON v. PALMATEER

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(1) is not a per se violation of the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution, and the literal wording of that statute does...