Civil Rights Legislation: Cases and Materials

The Sixth Edition of Civil Rights Legislation includes:

• The latest materials on the basic principles of section 1983 and the Bivens doctrine (including Minneci v. Pollard, Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, Skinner v. Switzer)
• Issues related to pleading standards (including Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, Ashcroft v. Iqbal)
• Treatment of qualified immunity (including Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, Pearson v. Callahan, Ortiz v. Jordan)
• Issues related to municipal liability (including Connick v. Thompson, Los Angeles County v. Humphries)
• Issues arising from federal habeas corpus (including McQuiggin v. Perkins, Chaidez v. United States, Magwood v. Patterson)
Recent treatment of federal court abstention (including Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs)
• Remedies for violations of constitutional rights (including Perdue v. Kenny A., Brown v. Plata)
• Developments under section 1981 (including CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries)
• Developments under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including Vance v. Ball State University, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes)
• Recent treatment of the Americans with Disabilities Act in district and appellate courts

This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.