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Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School District

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In a civil rights suit brought by plaintiff-high school students who were asked to remove clothing bearing images of the American flag after school...

Matusick v. Erie County Water Authority

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment for plaintiff in an action alleging employment discrimination and harassment is: 1) affirmed in part, where plaintiff presented sufficient...

People v. Rosalinda

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
The trial court's order committing defendant as a mentally retarded person who is a danger to herself and others to California Psychiatric...

Clear Sky Car Wash LLC v. City of Chesapeake

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit challenging defendant-city's actions in initiating a "quick take" proceeding of plaintiff's property as part of a...

Stevenson v. City of Seat Pleasant

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action alleging that defendant-officers assaulted plaintiffs, the district court's orders are: 1) reversed in part as to the grant...

Sheehan v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-county in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act alleging...

M. R. v. Ridley School District

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
The district court's ruling that defendant-school district must reimburse the plaintiff parents for the cost of roughly three years of their...

Heffner v. Murphy

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts
Summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs holding that several provisions of Pennsylvania's Funeral Director Law (FDL), violate various provisions of...

Rodriguez-Vives v. PR Fire Fighters Corps

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's action alleging that during her transitory employment, defendant subjected her to various forms of abuse in retaliation for...

Thornton v. Brown

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of a civil rights action involving a constitutional challenge to the imposition and enforcement of two conditions of plaintiff’s parole: a...