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Publication Date: 2023-07-10
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Smith
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Case Number: 21-3975
Defendants moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's action alleging fourth amendment unreasonable seizure of his dogs, fourteenth amendment due process, fourth amendment unreasonable seizure of computers and files, negligence and Monell claims in action over defendants' seizure of dogs from his puppy mill and court found the surrender and release forms plaintiff signed were enforceable and he voluntarily signed the forms, his Monell claims failed because he did not identity any policy or custom and his due process claims failed becau
Publication Date: 2023-07-10
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Federal Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Krause
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Rudovsky, Jonathan H. Feinberg, Susan M. Lin Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Patrick Toomey, Ashley Gorski, Sarah Taitz, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Jonathan Hafetz, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ for appellants.
for defendant: Leif Overvold, Brian M. Boynton, H. Thomas Byron III, Sharon Swingle, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC for appellees.
Case Number: 21-2798
"Clearly established" threshold inapplicable to discretionary function exception analysis under FTCA because the government lacked discretion to violate constitutional rights.
Publication Date: 2023-07-03
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Haines
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Case Number: 3:22-cv-00012
Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's §1983 complaint alleging violations of her civil rights and suing for emotional distress and malicious prosecution after officers pushed into her house to arrest her boyfriend and charged her with hindering and other crimes and court found there were no exigent circumstances to support officers' entry into the house but there was probable cause for prosecuting plaintiff for hindering apprehension. Motion denied in part and granted in part.
Publication Date: 2023-06-26
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge McHugh
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Case Number: 22-4191
City and DA defendants moved to dismiss police officer's civil rights action asserting improprieties in officer's prosecution for shooting a fleeing suspect and court found defendants were protected by absolute immunity, prosecutorial immunity and high public official immunity. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2023-06-05
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kearney
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Case Number: 23-1057
Defendants moved to dismiss in forma pauperis plaintiff's claims, made for the fifth time, that officers violated his constitutional rights during his arrests and court found he failed to state viable claims, amendment was futile because many of the claims were time barred and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiff's state law claims. Motion granted.
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Publication Date: 2023-05-26
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Rights | Labor Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Phipps
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Case Number: 21-1575
Plaintiff appealed the district court's dismissal of her complaint.
Publication Date: 2023-05-22
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge McHugh
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Case Number: 22-4950
Defendants moved to dismiss parents' §1983 action asserting constitutional violations in the imposition of a ban on parents' visiting ill child in hospital and court found parents adequately pled state action for their §1983 claim, deprivation of a 14th amendment liberty interest and sufficiently pled a Monell claim on a failure-to-train theory but failed to do so on a municipal-policy theory. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2023-05-22
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Ceisler
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Case Number: 62 M.D. 2022
Preliminary objections to inmate's challenge to mailroom policies overruled where inmate had sufficiently alleged an injury in fact by claiming that he had requested items mailed to him and those items were rejected by mailroom staff without notice or opportunity to challenge the rejection. Defendant's preliminary objections overruled.
Publication Date: 2023-05-08
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Gallagher
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Case Number: 5:22-cv-03959-JMG
Former employee sufficiently alleged First Amendment retaliation and due process claims arising from employee's attendance at political rally, but claims failed against individual defendants who did not personally participate in the employee's termination. Defendants' motion to dismiss/strike granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2023-05-01
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 413 C.D. 2020
Trial court erred in conducting evidentiary hearing in response to defendants' summary judgment motion after initially finding genuine issues of material fact, as plaintiff had requested a jury trial and the evidentiary hearing effectively functioned as a bench trial by creating evidence not in the record at the time defendants filed their motion. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
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