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federal judge also said that the government had offered no real
justification for limiting the ability of a professor who sued to
express opinions in a Military Academy classroom.
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This case arose when the government determined to remove the child, KA, from the plaintiff-father, KW, on the basis that the child’s mother was unsuitable to raise KA due to neglect and problems relating to her prior children. KW paid
Here is another case that originates from the current political environment: a teachers’ union sued the U.S. Department of Justice, the Attorney General, and other high-ranking federal officials, challenging the Trump administration’s termination of approximately $400 million in federal funding
The Supreme Court is going to decide whether sex discrimination victims may sue schools and universities under Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions. This case will resolve a split in the lower federal circuits, many of
This wage-and-hour case went to trial in the Eastern District of New York. At the non-jury trial, the judge ruled for the plaintiff, holding that she was denied overtime pay, awarding damages in the amount of approximately $23,000 and about
The First Department has reinstated a racial discrimination lawsuit against the City of New York and a police department supervisor based on explicit and implicit racial comments made by the supervisor in the context of the plaintiff’s employment.The case is
New York enacted a comprehensive gun control law in 2022, the same year the Supreme Court issued the Bruen ruling that made it much more difficult for the states to regulate guns, holding that any current gun regulations must have
This false arrest case went to trial in the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff also asserted an abuse-of-process claim against the police. The case arose when plaintiff was arrested for trespass even thopugh he believed he had a
The plaintiff in this case challenges his criminal conviction on the ground that the state trial court did not properly apply the law governing when you are justified in causing someone’s death. This case has a long road behind it,
This is a wage-and-hour claim in which the plaintiffs — who distribute baked goods — assert their employer denied proper overtime pay in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The issue is whether the trial court had authority to
