After the University of Texas at Austin revoked her Doctor of Philosophy degree,
Suvi Orr sued the University of Texas at Austin and Gregory L. Fenves, Judith Langlois, and
Shelby Stanfield, in their official capacities (collectively UT), challenging UT’s investigation and
decision-making process and alleging that UT had violated her due course of law rights. See Tex.
Const. art. I

Monique Washington alleged she slipped and fell in some water in a building on
the campus of Texas State Technical College, a governmental entity. A water line had
broken in the ceiling of the building and flooded the floor. Washington sued TSTC for
the injuries she sustained in her fall. TSTC filed a plea to the jurisdiction which the trial
court denied. Because the trial court di

Frederick Lewis filed a civil action against various officials and staff at Riverside Regional Jail in Prince George County, Virginia, alleging claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012) for Eighth Amendment and due process violations, as well as a Virginia state law claim for false imprisonment. The district court granted Defendants’ motion to dismiss the action pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), f

Bronowicz’s § 1983 claims arise from a complicated series of sentencing and probation revocation proceedings that allegedly had the cumulative effect of unlawfully imposing on Bronowicz additional penalties for criminal judgments that had already been satisfied. Because the sequence of events that culminated in his wrongful incarceration is complex, we must discuss the initial criminal charges an

Ted Bradford was convicted in 1996 of residential burglary and rape. In 2008, after Bradford served his full tenyear sentence, the Washington State courts vacated his conviction based largely on newly-available DNA testing, which excluded him as a contributor of genetic material found at the crime scene. Prosecutors then proceeded to retry Bradford, which resulted in his acquittal in 2010. In 2

Seventeen-year-old Ryan Cole was severely injured in an armed encounter with police. Ryan and his parents, Karen and Randy Cole (“the Coles”), brought suit against Officers Michael Hunter and Martin Cassidy, alleging that they violated Ryan’s Fourth Amendment right not to be subjected to excessive force. They also sued Officer Carl Carson, alleging Carson violated Ryan’s rights under the Fourth an

On May 20, 2002, Mr. Wade and Darrin Rhodes went to service the Sundown Well, which is located in Meadow, Utah.2 In
1 Mr. Wade and his wife first filed the tort suit against FEA. They added Dixie as a defendant after learning that the utility employees involved in the accident were leased by Dixie to FEA. 2 In evaluating cross-motions for summary judgment, we recite the facts in the light mo

After Adams 12 Five Star Schools terminated Gina Holub’s employment as an
internal auditor for the School District, she brought this action against the School
District and two of its officials, Superintendent Chris Gdowski and Chief Financial
2
Officer Shelley Becker. Holub raised First Amendment and state law claims, alleging
the defendants terminated her employment in retalia

Plaintiffs‐appellants are sailors and spouses of sailors injured in the 
bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, who brought suit against Sudan in the D.C. District 
Court on October 4, 2010, under 28 U.S.C. § 1605A, the terrorism exception to the 
FSIA, alleging that Sudan provided material support to al Qaeda, whose 
operatives perpetrated the attack on the vessel.1   
Pursuant to 

The City of Bonham owned an airport hangar at its Jones Field Municipal Airport which it leased to Sidney B. Hale, Jr.1 After an ice storm caused the hangar’s roof to collapse, Hale sent a demand letter to the City seeking to recover some $400,000.00 in damages to property stored in the hangar and damaged by the collapse. After having received the letter, the City filed a suit for declaratory judg

Plaintiff-Appellant Kathryn Rothkamm and her husband filed separate tax returns. Rothkamm’s husband incurred a tax liability, and the IRS levied her account at a bank, which she asserts was her separate property. She initially sought a Taxpayer Assistance Order (“TAO”) through the Taxpayer Advocate Service but obtained no relief. She then filed an administrative claim and, when that was denied, fi

Appellants City of San Antonio and San Antonio River Authority were sued by Appellee Osvaldo Peralta for damages from injuries he suffered from a bicycle accident on the San Antonio River Walk. Peralta alleged Appellants’ immunity is waived under the premises defect and special defect liability provisions in the Texas Tort Claims Act. In their separate pleas to the jurisdiction, Appellants argued

In reviewing a denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal, we describe the pertinent facts and all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from those facts in the light most favorable to the state. State v. Walker, 356 Or 4, 6, 333 P3d 316 (2014). In this case, defendant’s son and estranged wife went to defendant’s house to pick up his son’s backpack before school. While defendant’s wife and son

3 Plaintiffs, who are 704 current and former employees of the State of Vermont, appeal from
4 the dismissal of the action by the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
5 (Sessions, J.) by reason of Vermont’s sovereign immunity. The complaint alleges violations of the
6 Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq. (“FLSA”), and seeks declaratory and
7

Shortly after his arrest, Alphonso Turner hanged himself in an Ecorse, Michigan jail
using a shoelace that normally would have been taken from him during booking for his safety.
His widow, as the personal representative of Turner’s estate and in her individual capacity,
alleges in her complaint that city police officers were deliberately indifferent to Turner’s risk of
suicide and

In Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington,1 the Supreme Court held that all arrestees who are committed to the general population of a detention center may be subject to a close visual inspection while undressed. Today we are asked whether Florence applies to juvenile offenders admitted to the general population of a juvenile detention center. We hold that it does.
I.

The federal Medicaid program provides financial assistance to states that offer medical treatment to needy persons. (Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center v. Shewry (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 460, 469–470 (Mission I).) “California participates in the federal Medicaid program through the Medi-Cal program,” and the Department is the state agency authorized to administer the Medi-Cal program. (Id.

Two members of the New Jersey State Police entered
plaintiff Denise Brown's home without a warrant and without
consent in order to "secure the apartment" while they sought a
search warrant for the premises. They were looking for evidence
of a home invasion they believed had been committed by her
boyfriend, and, specifically, for a stolen piece of jewelry they
had rea

.Thenameddefendant,BaconConstructionCompany,Inc.,1appealsfromthetrialcourt’sdenial of its motion for summary judgment, in which it argued thattheclaimshereinassertedbytheplaintiff,thestate of Connecticut, are all barred by the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel2 because such claims wereorcouldhavebeenmadeanddecidedinanearlier arbitrationproceedinginitiatedbythedefendantpursuant to G

In 2002, the MFCU initiated an investigation into the professional financial
affairs of Morse, a dentist, then practicing with another dentist in the Park Slope 4  
neighborhood of Brooklyn as ʺ580 Dental, P.C.ʺ  The defendant John Fusto, then 5  
a Special Assistant Attorney General with the MFCU, was assigned to the case, as 6  
was the defendant Jose Castillo, then an 

Appellee Jacob Ind has been incarcerated in Colorado state prisons since
1992. At the time he filed this lawsuit on March 13, 2009, he was in
administrative segregation at the Colorado State Penitentiary (“CSP”) subject to
a limit of two personal books imposed by the Colorado Department of Corrections
(“CDOC”). Mr. Ind filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming the

Plaintiffs John (“Paterek”)1 and Cynthia Paterek (“the Patereks”),
along with their company Paterek Mold & Engineering, Inc. (“PME”), (collectively “Plaintiffs”),
appeal the district court order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants Ben Delecke,
Commissioner of the Village of Armada Planning Commission, and the Village of Armada
(collectively “Defendants”), in this § 198

Leonard G. Young, Jr., a Pennsylvania prisoner with a
long history of mental illness, filed suit alleging that
Appellees-Defendants1 violated his Eighth Amendment rights
1 Appellees-Defendants include Jeffrey Martin, Deputy
Superintendent Greene SCI, in his official and individual
3
by securing him in a four-point restraint chair, naked, for
fourteen hours, although he

After Charles Jernegan committed suicide at the David L. Moss Criminal
Justice Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma (�Jail�), his mother, Plaintiff-Appellee Carolyn
Cox, commenced this 42 U.S.C. � 1983 action against Defendant-Appellant
Stanley Glanz, the Tulsa County Sheriff (�Sheriff Glanz� or �the Sheriff�). Ms.
Cox sought to hold Sheriff Glanz liable for Mr. Jernegan�s sui

Cleveland police officers shot and killed Illuminado Lopez during a confrontation in
which Lopez refused to drop a machete. Lopez’s brother, acting as the Administrator of Lopez’s
estate, sued the City of Cleveland and the five officers who shot at Lopez,1 asserting
constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and supplemental claims under Ohio law. After the
parties co