Melinda Fisher filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (collectively "Wal-Mart") and two Raymore, Missouri, police officers following an incident involving counterfeit money orders at a Raymore Wal-Mart store. Fisher sued Wal-Mart on various claims, including false im...   MORE>>

Plaintiff-appellant Roy Den Hollander, individually and on behalf of a putative class of similarly situated men, appeals the Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of his Section 1983 action brought against several New York City nightclubs for discriminating against men on “Ladies’ Nights.” See Hollander v. ...   MORE>>

Plaintiffs-appellants Geneal Warf and Glenn Gupton (“the Warf appellants”), individually and on behalf of a class of 542 absentee voters, appeal the district court’s order denying their motion for a preliminary injunction and granting summary judgment to defendants-appellees the Board of Elect...   MORE>>

This case involves the constitutionality of Colorado’s requirement that independent candidates for partisan public office be registered as unaffiliated with a political party for nearly seventeen months before the general election if they wish to appear on the general-election ballot. See Colo. Re...   MORE>>

While a candidate for judicial office in Arizona, appellant Randolph Wolfson initiated this action against the members of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct, the members of the Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, and Arizona Chief Bar Counsel Robert Van Wyck (collectively, defenda...   MORE>>

Following her termination as a probationary analyst at the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department’s Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC), Salvadora Katosang brought this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Katosang alleges that Pearl Fain, her former supervisor and the Director of the OCC, and the membe...   MORE>>

The State of Tennessee (“State”) appeals the district court’s denial of its motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b)(5). The sole issue on appeal is whether the district court abused its discretion when it refused to vacate all outstanding court orders and consent decrees granti...   MORE>>

In 2006, Bart McQueary challenged the validity of a Kentucky law placing limits on protests at military funerals, claiming that the law violated his free-speech rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court granted McQueary’s motion to enjoin enforcement of the law on a prel...   MORE>>

The plaintiff, Timothy Shannon, is a former Marine and retired police officer who owns a pub in Sioux City, Iowa, called “Tom Foolery’s.” In the early morning hours of September 13, 2006, Shannon was arrested inside Tom Foolery’s by Michael Koehler, a patrol officer with the Sioux City Polic...   MORE>>

Mohamed El-Tabech, a Muslim inmate serving consecutive life sentences in Nebraska’s Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (TSCI), commenced this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that prison officials were violating his religious rights under the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and In...   MORE>>