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New York Law Journal

Rivers v. Corrections Officer Paige

Claim Based on SHU Confinement Dismissed; Claim Over Good Time Credit Loss Survives
2 minute read

The Recorder

Rosebrock v. Mathis

By | March 17, 2014
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Aging Parents and the Law: Good Intentions Can Lead to Fair Housing Act Violations in Long-Term Care Communities

It is unlikely that either President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who signed the Fair Housing Act into law in 1968, or the lawmakers who passed the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 envisioned how such laws would impact senior housing and long-term care.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Circuits at Odds over Civil Rights of Mentally Ill

Volatile situations make it difficult for police — and courts — to determine when violations occur.
5 minute read

Law.com

Former Student Settles With School District After Alleging Coaches Forced Her to Admit She Was Gay

"The only reason this case settled is the insurance carrier did not want to spend another five years and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for this case to go back to the Fifth Circuit," said Robert Davis, who defended KISD and coaches Rhonda Fletcher and Cassandra Newell.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Nominee Muscled Aside

The Senate had just voted to block the nomination of veteran voting-rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to lead the nation's federal civil rights enforcement when the president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police wrote a thank-you note to the group's members.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Women Lawyers Group Honors Northrop Grumman Law Dept.

The National Association of Women Lawyers will present its national Challenge Award to Northrop Grumman Corp., and its annual Leadership Award to U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler of the District of Columbia.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Esposito v. Quatinez

Psychiatric Patient's Free Exercise of Religion, Due Process Violation Claims Denied Dismissal
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Boles v. County of Montgomery

Officer's Claim of No State Action Because He Was Not Involved in Repossession Is Rejected
2 minute read

The Recorder

Carter v. City of Los Angeles

By | March 14, 2014
5 minute read

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