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Publication Date: 2024-03-22
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kearney
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Case Number: 23-3287
School district's alleged failure to train employees to work with students with emotional disorders lacked causal connection to student's harm and thus could not support a substantive due process claim. Defendants' motions to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Leeson
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Case Number: 5:23-cv-2261
Defendant landlord moved to dismiss plaintiff tenant's discrimination and retaliation claims based on disability, failure to accommodate and the Fair Housing Act and court found plaintiff offered little more than conclusory allegations, apartment complex was not a place of public accommodation within the Americans with Disabilities Act and court dismissed the ADA claims with prejudice and granted leave to amend the FHA claims. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2024-02-23
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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Case Number: 22-2788
Appellants appealed the district court's order granting summary judgment in favor of police officers on the basis of qualified immunity where the officers inflicted gratuitous injuries on family members, none of whom were suspected of any criminal activity, during a pre-dawn, no-knock raid on a residence. The court reversed, holding that the district court erred by predominantly crediting the officers' version of events for purposes of summary judgment, rather than construing the evidence in favor of plaintiffs, as non-movants.
Publication Date: 2024-02-16
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Schwab
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Case Number: 21-267
Defendants moved for summary judgment in inmate's action asserting retaliation and Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination and court found there was no evidence and no genuine issue of material fact to suggest any retaliation and plaintiff proffered no evidence to support his theory that defendants deliberately discriminated against him by placing him in a medical unit. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2024-02-16
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Slomsky
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Case Number: 22-1597
Defendants moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's Americans with Disabilities Act, Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and Philadelphia Fair Practice Ordinance action based on her termination for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination and court found there was a genuine issue dispute as to whether plaintiff had a disability, whether she was a qualified individual and whether defendants engaged in an interactive process but her retaliation claim failed because she failed to prove any retaliatory motive by defendants and defendants articulated
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Publication Date: 2024-02-14
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 23-2851
Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his civil rights action for failure to prosecute.
Publication Date: 2024-02-08
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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Case Number: 23-3170
Petitioner sought a writ of mandamus to compel the adjudication of his Rule 54(b) motion in an underlying civil action.
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Ambro
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Case Number: 22-2702
Plaintiffs appealed the district court's dismissal of their lawsuits.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Legal Services | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Montgomery-Reeves
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Case Number: 22-2340
District court properly denied Assistant District Attorney's motion to dismiss §1983 charges against him, for fabricating evidence, on absolute immunity grounds because ADA's alleged conduct served an investigatory function and ADA was not entitled to absolute immunity. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Schmehl
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Case Number: 21-5032
Plaintiff moved for partial reconsideration in his action alleging claims under the Rehabilitation Act for failure to accommodate, disability discrimination, disparate impact, retaliation and interference and §1983 claims when he was denied the accommodation of remote teaching in 2021 after his heart transplant required him to use immunosuppressive medications which placed him at a higher risk from COVID-19 and court found university's full-time full-duty-policy had an adverse impact on him but that there was no cause of action under
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