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Compton Unified Sch. Dist. v. Addison

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Education Law, Health Law
In an administrative claim under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for failure to identify plaintiff-student as disabled,...

Edgerly v. San Francisco

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Sanctions
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against police officers and a city alleging that the officers unlawfully arrested and searched plaintiff in...

Schexnayder v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action claiming that defendant-insurer wrongly denied plaintiff disability benefits, summary judgment on the merits for plaintiff is...

Quigley v. Winter

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a sexual harassment action against plaintiff's landlord under the Fair Housing Act, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed in part where: 1) defendant...

N.Y. Marine & Gen. Ins. Co. v. Lafarge N. Am., Inc.

Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action by a barge operator against an insurer for defense costs associated with Hurricane Katrina-related damages, the district court's order...

Howard v. St. Germain

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure
In an appeal from the district court's order assessing attorney's fees against defendants based on their improper removal of the case, the order is...

Keup v. Hopkins

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action by a prisoner claiming defendant prison personnel prevented plaintiff from sending drawings outside the prison in...

Donahue v. Donahue

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates
Trial court's order, charging a trust with some $5 million in past and ongoing attorney fees incurred on behalf of a former trustee in defending...

Pellegrino v. Robert Half Int'l

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' action against their former employer, a temporary staffing firm, for hour and wage violations, trial court's award of plaintiffs'...

City of Waco v. Kelley

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by an assistant chief of police challenging his indefinite suspension for being arrested and charged with drunk-driving in another city,...