This appeal stems from a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought by Jeffrey Keating, Rich Hersh, Bonnie Redding, Jason Kotoch, and Raymond Del Papa (collectively the “Protesters”), alleging, inter alia, violations of their First and Fourth Amendment rights during a demonstration held in November 2003 o...   MORE>>

Larry Richardson, a pro se litigant incarcerated in state prison, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the denial of his motion for reconsideration. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.

On October 12, 2006, Richardson, a pris...   MORE>>

Plaintiff Norberto Perez Arocho brought this prison civil rights action alleging that he was being denied recommended treatment for a Hepatitis C infection damaging his liver and causing him pain. The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s recommendation to dismiss the case at the pleading ...   MORE>>

Robert and Maria Thorpe (together “the Thorpes”) filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit claiming individuals from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department and the Grand Junction Police Department (collectively “Defendants”) violated their constitutional rights during an investigation and malicious ...   MORE>>

Jerry Young and Christy Colley, both convicted felons, contend that § 241 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi grants felons the right to vote in presidential elections. That the state denies them this right, they claim, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to...   MORE>>

Ronald Murray brought an action for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Missouri law against the director of the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) and one of its employees, Christine Steele; Adair County, Missouri, Deputy Jason Lene, and the county's sheriff and board of commissioners; an...   MORE>>

This case involves the allegedly discriminatory suspension of a physician’s medical staff privileges. Medical staff privileges allow a physician both to treat patients at the privilege-granting hospital and to receive patient referrals from that hospital. Appellees—physicians, administrators, an...   MORE>>

Julie Fairchild – asserting that the Liberty Independent School District had infringed her constitutionally protected speech – sued the District and several of its officials. She claimed the District – after firing her – did not allow her at a school board meeting to present her side of her ...   MORE>>

The underlying claims at issue in these appeals, asserted pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, arise out of the fatal shooting of an arrestee by a Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer. Defendant Deval Bullock, the officer who fired the fatal shot, noted an interlocutory appeal in No. 09-...   MORE>>

Defendant Fulton County, Georgia, concerned about the secondary effects on its communities of the mixture of alcohol and live nude dancing, passed an ordinance in 2001 prohibiting the sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol in adult entertainment establishments. Plaintiffs Flanigan’s Enterpri...   MORE>>