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Tag: Civil Rights

CIVIL RIGHTS – ANTISEMITISM – PLEADING – DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE – PROCEDURE – AMENDMENT – DISCOVERY

Canaan v. Carnegie Mellon Univ., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 251144 (December 5, 2025) W. Scott Hardy. Judges: W. Scott Hardy, United States District Judge. Canaan’s Complaint alleges that CMU harbors a culture of antisemitism, that certain of its professors and administrators intentionally discriminated against her and harassed her because she is Jewish and of Israeli […]

WIRETAP ACT – IMMUNITY – CIVIL RIGHTS – DISTRICT ATTORNEY – HIGH PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Winig v. Off. of the DA of Phila., 2025 Pa. LEXIS 1824 (November 19, 2025) Brobson, J. The Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (Wiretap Act or Act), 18 Pa. C.S. §§ 5701-5782, generally governs the legality of interceptions, disclosures, and use of oral, electronic, and wire communications between and among persons. Commonwealth v. Byrd, […]

CIVIL RIGHTS – SEX AND RACIST CRIMINATION – APPEAL – EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES – STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS – HEARSAY – 1981 CLAIM

Jones v. Foods on First III Inc., 2025 Pa. Super. LEXIS 386 (August 26, 2025) Bowes, J. OPINION BY BOWES, J.: Foods on First III, Inc., d/b/a Foods on First; Foods on First VI, Inc., d/b/a Foods on First; Manuel Salazar; and Aldo Salazar (collectively “Defendants”) appeal from the judgment finding in favor of Najaea […]

BIVENS – CIVIL RIGHTS – BIVENS CRITERIA

Muniz v. United States, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 20540 (August 13, 2025) Scirica, Circuit Judge. Judges: RESTREPO, MONTGOMERY-REEVES, and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges. RESTREPO, Circuit Judge, concurring. In limited contexts, the Supreme Court recognizes a cause of action against federal officers to redress a violation of constitutional rights. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. […]

CIVIL RIGHTS – TITLE XI OF THE EDUCATION

Oldham v. Pa. State Univ., 138 F.4th 731, 737-738 (May 29, 2025) Phipps, Circuit Judge. This case arises from allegations that during a cross-country flight following a fencing tournament, a state university’s assistant fencing coach sexually harassed and assaulted the woman in the seat next to him. That woman was also a member of the […]

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT – SCHOOL DISTRICT HEIGHTENED STANDARD – REHABILITATION ACT – SCHOOL DISTRICT – HEIGHTENED STANDARD

A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Sch., Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 279, 145 S. Ct. 1647 (June 12, 2025) Roberts, C.J. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner A. J. T. is a teenage girl who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy that severely limits her physical and cognitive functioning. When school administrators […]