25 results for 'judge:"Dugan"'.
J. Duggan grants two police officers' motion for summary judgment concerning an estate representative's unlawful search and seizure claims. The police officers sufficiently showed in court that they were obligated to search the vehicle of a civilian, now deceased, after he showed up to a property, in violation of a protective order launched by a female associate.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: Dugan, Filed On: April 9, 2024, Case #: 3:18cv1464, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Evidence
J. Dugan rules a Black female employee may pursue race and sex discrimination claims against a chemical manufacturing distributor. The female employee sufficiently showed in court that she may have been passed over for a promotion to serve as a general foreman, which was handed down to white, male co-worker.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: Dugan, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv1357, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Employment, Employment Discrimination
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J. Dugan grants a widow's motion for a default judgment on wrongful death claims against a third-party seller on Amazon. The widow sufficiently showed in court that the Amazon seller sold defective, electrically heated socks labeled as "good for blood circulation," which resulted in the death of her husband, who contracted sepsis after his feet became burned and wounded. The estate is awarded $9.7 million in damages.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: Dugan, Filed On: December 15, 2023, Case #: 3:20cv1287, NOS: Personal Injury - Product Liability - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Negligence, Product Liability, Wrongful Death
J. Dugan rules a former student may pursue deliberate indifference claims against a school district. The former student sufficiently showed in court that the district failed to prevent school employees, several teachers and coaches, from engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior toward female students, which included rape and other forms of sexual abuse.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: Dugan, Filed On: September 25, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv2727, NOS: Education - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Tort
J. Dugan finds a former high school student may pursue sex discrimination claims against a school district. The former high school student, a varsity volleyball player, sufficiently presented evidence in court that the coach forced the athletes to engage in "demoralizing and degrading activities," including being subjected to "spanking machines," and then "scolded" them for reporting the abuse.
Court: USDC Southern District of Illinois, Judge: Dugan, Filed On: July 31, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv1962, NOS: Education - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Emotional Distress
J. Dugan finds the circuit court improperly dismissed the park advocacy group's two petitions for judicial review challenging the natural resources department's approval of a plan to build a new snowmobile trail in a state park, which the group did in part because the department inadequately considered the environmental impacts of the trail. The group, as a Chapter 181 corporation under Wisconsin law with a written agreement with the department to operate as a "friends group" to use its efforts to assist and support the department and the state park, has both the capacity and standing to sue the department, neither of which it has waived, and neither of which are barred by the details of its articles of incorporation. The circuit court's decisions are overturned and the matter is remanded for further proceedings. Reversed.
Court: Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Judge: Dugan, Filed On: June 27, 2023, Case #: 2022AP001127, Categories: Administrative Law, Environment