Cases
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Messerschmidt v. Millender (2012) 565 U.S. 535
US Supreme Court held that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were entitled to qualified immunity and thus could not be held personally liable for civil damages
Stern v. Marshall (2011) 564 U.S. 462
The Supreme Court held that a bankruptcy court has statutory authority to enter final judgment on a debtor’s state-law counterclaims against a creditor, but that Article III of the United States Constitution makes the statutory grant unconstitutional. It also held that 28 U.S.C. section 157(b)(5), which specifies that district courts must order that “personal injury tort and wrongful death claims” be tried in district court, is not jurisdictional and creditors can consent, through their conduct, to a bankruptcy court resolving such claims.
Los Angeles County v. Humphries (2010) 562 U.S. 29
No declaratory or injunctive relief available in civil rights action against municipality under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 absent wrongful policy, custom or practice approved or knowingly tolerated by local public entity policymakers.
City of Ontario v. Quon (2010) 560 U.S. 746
Expectation of privacy in messages sent and received on his employer-issued device; Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures
McCullock v. Los Angeles County Sheriff (9th Cir. 2009) 320 Fed.Appx. 814
Civil rights action based on denial of medication to prisoner
Van de Kamp v. Goldstein (2009) 555 U.S. 335
Prosecutorial immunity applies to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims concerning the manner in which the prosecutor’s office implemented policies and training for jailhouse informants
Humphries v. Los Angeles County (9th Cir. 2009) 554 F.3d 1170
Due process claim based on list of suspected child abusers maintained by California Department of Justice
In re Marriage Cases (2008) 43 Cal.4th 757 (amicus)
Constitutionality of statute providing that only heterosexual couples can marry (amicus curiae brief)
Robertson v. County of Ventura (9th Cir. 2008) 275 Fed.Appx. 594
Requirement of state action in civil rights action for physicians’ mandatory reporting of possible child abuse
Adam Bros. Farming, Inc. v. County of Santa Barbara (Mar. 4, 2008, B180880) 2008 WL 565025 [nonpublished opinion]
Two family agribusiness entities sued Santa Barbara County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a supposed civil rights deprivation based on the County’s delineation of a wetland on a large parcel of land that one of the plaintiffs owned and the other wanted to farm.
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