LATEST SUMMARIES

CIVIL PROCEDURE, CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
• Diaz-Romero v. Mukasey

CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, EDUCATION LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW
• Parker v. Hurley

CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTRUCTION, GOVERNMENT LAW, PROPERTY LAW & REAL ESTATE
• Clark v. Boscher

IMMIGRATION LAW
• Chikkeur v. Mukasey

LATEST SUMMARIES

CIVIL PROCEDURE, CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
Diaz-Romero v. Mukasey, No. 07-1607
In a suit brought under Bivens and the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) alleging that the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to violate his constitutional rights and created a hostile work environment, dismissal of plaintiff's suit is affirmed where plaintiff's status as a commissioned officer of the Public Health Service (PHS) bars his suit. Read more...

CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, EDUCATION LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW
Parker v. Hurley, No. 07-1528
In a suit brought by parents, whose religious beliefs are offended by gay marriage and homosexuality, against their children's school district claiming that they had to be given prior notice by the school and the opportunity to exempt their young children from exposure to books they find religiously repugnant, dismissal of parents claims is affirmed where, accepting plaintiffs' assertion that their sincerely held religious beliefs were deeply offended, they failed to establish a constitutional burden on their rights, or on those of their children. Read more...

CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTRUCTION, GOVERNMENT LAW, PROPERTY LAW & REAL ESTATE
Clark v. Boscher, No. 06-2473
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a former mayor and various former city council members and commissioners for obstructing the development of a residential subdivision on plaintiffs' land, dismissal of plaintiffs' claims is affirmed where their well-pleaded facts failed to demonstrate violations of their constitutional due process or equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Read more...

IMMIGRATION LAW
Chikkeur v. Mukasey, No. 05-2893, 07-1798
Algerian citizens' petition for review of denials of their applications for asylum and related relief, as well as their motion to reopen, is denied where: 1) the IJ supportably found, on the record, that petitioners failed to demonstrate the requisite link between certain extortion and his political opinion or membership in a particular social group; and 2) there was no abuse of discretion in denying the motion to reopen. Read more...