all - Opinion Summaries

STEWART v. STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
An EEOC regulation did not threaten or erode the Eleventh Amendment immunity of the state of Oklahoma in an employment discrimination case, and...

CHANDLER v. CITY OF ARVADA, COLORADO

Constitutional Law
In a challenge to the constitutionality of a city ordinance which prohibits nonresidents from circulating initiative, referendum, or recall petitions...

CANTU v. JONES

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Conduct of corrections officers rose above negligence, in a prisoner's claim for constitutional deliberate indifference based on a fellow inmate's...

RILEY v. HARR

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against an author and publisher for a book's depiction of claimant, summary judgment against claimant was proper (on First Amendment...

MCKUNE v. LILE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The Sexual Abuse Treatment Program serves the vital penological purpose of rehabilitation, and offering inmates minimal incentives to participate does...

US v. MASON

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
When the government's primary witness at trial falsely stated that he had not entered into a plea agreement, the defense was prevented from effective...

CLARK v PUTNAM COUNTY

Constitutional Law, Elections
Putnam County, Georgia's 1992 redistricting plan, which assigns voters on the basis of race to electoral districts, is unconstitutional under strict...

GAINES v. STENSENG

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
It is improper to dismiss a prisoner's 43 U.S.C. section 1983 action when there is a complete absence of evidence concerning whether the duration and...

QUINN v. SHIREY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In order for plaintiff to show that he has been deprived of a liberty interest in his reputation without due process in the form of a name-clearing...

GRAYSON V. MAYVIEW STATE HOSPITAL

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Section 804(a)(5) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 28 U.S.C.S 1915(e)(2), warrants that inadequately drafted in forma pauperis complaints may be...