Plaintiff Tamela Muir was fired by the acting Decatur County Sheriff, Ben
Boswell, shortly after her husband, Bert Muir, had been removed as Sheriff. Tamela
alleges that Boswell fired her simply because she was married to Bert and that
Boswell therefore violated

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Workers’ compensation laws strike a statutory bargain between labor and management. They all but guarantee that a worker will recover from an employer for workplace injuries. In exchange for that certainty, the worker gives up the right to pursue a potentially larger recovery

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Austin Moon was a young motorcyclist. He liked to ride fast. So fast, in fact, he twice eluded police officers at triple-digit speeds. On officers’ third attempt to stop Moon, a Criminal District Attorney Investigator named Jonathan Meachum caused

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Appellant Anthony Robinson appeals the dismissal of his lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The district court found that it lacked jurisdiction over the claim because Congress had not waived

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A fifteen-year-old girl named Star1 ran away from home and ended up living with a couple
she knew as Nene and Roni. Nene and Roni told Star she needed to make money by having “dates,”
so they created a profile for Star on a w

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On July 3, 2018, Flota was subpoenaed to testify as a witness in the criminal
trial of Ky

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Portia Boulger filed an action for defamation and invasion of privacy based upon a tweet by James Woods, a well-known movie actor and producer. The district court denied Woods’s motion for summary judgment, due to Boulger’s lack of service, but granted his motion for judgment on the p

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This is a § 1983 case that challenges the constitutionality of New Mexico’s
system of bail. Plaintiffs-Appellants Darlene Collins, the Bail Bond Association of
New Mexico (“BBANM”), and five New Mexico state legislators (the “Legislator
Plaintiffs”) allege that

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James King (“Plaintiff”) appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment1 for Officers Todd Allen and Douglas Brownback (together “Defendants”) on Plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment claims arising under 42 U.S.C. §

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Plaintiff-appellant Julio de Lima Silva, a Brazilian citizen who self-identifies as Latino, worked as a correctional sergeant for the State of Wisconsin, Depart-ment of Corrections (“DOC”). His use of force on an inmate triggered an i

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Palmer lived at Calvary Towers, a federally subsidized apartment building in

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Tyson Timbs pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. The trial court sentenced him to one year ofhome detention and five years of probation, which included a court-supervised addiction-treatment program. The senten

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Chad E. Osterhout brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Oklahoma
law alleging Deputy Sheriff Kendall Morgan and another officer used excessive force
in arresting him after a short, high-speed chase. Officer Morgan appeals the district
court’s or

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This case is a § 1983 action arising from the deadly shooting of a young man by Kaufman County law enforcement officers responding to a 911 call. The district court dismissed all claims against the individual officers and the county. We now AFFIRM

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Delbert Johnson is a sergeant with the Fort Worth Police Department. He alleges that over a three-year period he was subjected to a campaign of isolation, harassment, and ridicule because he is African-American. Investi

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Earl Patterson was employed as a maintenance person
for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (“PLCB”) when he
reported for duty at a PLCB-operated liquor store in
Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Shortly after his arrival, the
location’s assistant manager accused him of attem

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Plaintiff‐appellant Linda Reed alleges
that she suffered discrimination on the basis of her disabilities
while she was a patient at defendant‐appellee Columbia
St. Mary’s Hospital in March 2012. Among other things,
she con

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Defendant law enforcement officials Raymon Alam, Dave Weinman, and Damon Kimbrough searched for a fugitive in a house in which plaintiff Eduardo Jacobs lived. Following the search, plaintiff returned home from work, and according to the officers, confronted, pointed a gun at, and then shot a

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) and Booking.com (“Booking.com”) both appeal the district court’s summary judgment ruling regarding the protectability of the proposed trademark BOOKING.COM.1 The USPTO appeals on the ground that the district court erred in con

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This is an appeal from a Hocking County Common Pleas Court judgment of
conviction and sentence. A jury found Joshua Conrad, defendant below and appellant herein,
guilty of aggravated murder, murder, aggravated robbery, aggrav

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