Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of
any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any …

Shortly after the Civil War, primarily in an effort to secure the Fourteenth Amendment rights of
African Americans in the South, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (the" 1871 …

In Town of Newton v. Rumery, 1 the United States Supreme Court recently considered the
propriety of a type of settlement agreement-a" release-dismissal"-in a civil rights action …

Abstract Dissenting in Board of County Commissioners v. Brown, Justice Breyer remarked
that the Supreme Court's holding in Monell v. Department of Social Services of the City of …

Imagine Generic Corp., a typical American business which has no policy prohibiting
discrimination against sexual orientation. 1 Moreover, assume Generic resides in a state that …

COONEY v. PARK COUNTY 792 P.2d 1287 (1990) Thomas Russell COONEY and Lora John
Cooney, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. PARK COUNTY, Wyoming; The State of Wyoming; The …

In September 1994, Congress passed the first federal law recognizing and attempting to
stop gender-motivated violence. 1 The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA or the Act) …

State courts addressing mass torts should independently examine the worth of class action
tolling and, the Authors argue, not admit it to the state canon. In mass torts, it is difficult to …

Most Americans work at will-they can quit in a huff, but be fired on a whim. That is the double-
edged sword of atwill employment. 2 What these workers gain in freedom, they sometimes …

Title 42, Section 1983 of the US Code provides a remedy in federal court for individuals who
suffer constitutional rights violations at the hands of criminal justice officials. To succeed in a …