all - Opinion Summaries

NANDA v. BD. OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
Under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, a suit against state officials in their official capacity limited to injunctive relief is not barred by the Eleventh...

GAYLE v GONYEA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, circumstantial evidence created a genuine issue of fact as to whether corrections officials filed a false...

JENSEN v. LANE COUNTY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff failed to show that a contract psychiatrist departed from generally accepted standards in the medical community in...

US v. QUINONES

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 does not violate substantive and procedural due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. Eighth...

TARPLEY v. ALLEN COUNTY

Constitutional Law
A jail's refusal to provide an inmate with a version of the Bible which included interpretive commentary did not violate the inmate's First Amendment...

LINGLER v. FECHKO

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
It was constitutional for a police chief to exact statements from subordinate officers about on-the-job activities in which the officers may have...

HAY v. INDIANA STATE BD. OF TAX COMM'RS

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
An action, alleging that methods used in assessing property for Indiana tax purposes violated due process, was properly dismissed by the district...

US v. RAYBORN

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The government provided sufficient evidence to permit a rational jury to find that a church was actively employed in commercial activities with an...

CRAIGMILES v. GILES

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
A Tennessee Funeral Directors and Embalmers Act provision, forbidding anyone from selling caskets without being a licensed funeral director, bears no...