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Sorensen v. Wallingford Bd. of Educ., No. 3:21-cv-01680 (VDO), 742 F. Supp.3d 240 (D. Conn. 2024), and unpublished decision (D. Conn. 2025)

United States District Court decision granting summary judgment on teacher’s claims of disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, and retaliation on grounds that the plaintiff did not suffer an adverse employment action and was offered reasonable accommodations. On reconsideration, the Court considered the recent Supreme Court decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, 601 U.S. 346 (2004), and again granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

Download full case here – Sorensen v. Wallingford Bd. of Educ.

Download full case here – Sorensen v. Wallingford Bd. of Educ.

Harvey v. Town of Greenwich, No. 3:21-cv-771 (KAD), 2023 WL 5894537 (D. Conn. 2023)

United States District Court decision granting Town’s motion for summary judgment in employment discrimination action alleging race and age discrimination. The Court found that Plaintiff could not establish that the Town’s decision to not hire him to the position of Commissioner of Human Services was motivated by discriminatory intent.

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Kyzer v. Borough of Naugatuck, No. 3:19-cv-1511 (JBA), 2022 WL 2802349 (D. Conn. 2022)

United States District Court decision granting defendant municipality and police officers’ motion for summary judgment as to plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment claim on the basis transfer of plaintiff’s decedent’s dog by police officer to third-party without proper documentation did not violate clearly established due process right, entitling defendants to qualified immunity.

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Callahan v. Human Resources City of New Haven, No. 3:20-cv-1881, 2022 WL 445819 (D. Conn. 2022)

United States District Court decision granting motion to dismiss free speech retaliation claims brought by former employee who alleged that she was fired and not rehired to other positions because of her protected speech in violation of the First Amendment and Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51q.

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Kelley v. City of Danbury, No. CV18-6051612-S, 2021 WL 5919784 (Conn. Super. Ct., Complex Litigation Docket at Waterbury, Dec. 3, 2021)

Connecticut Superior Court decision denying co-defendant general contractor’s motion to strike city’s counterclaim for indemnification, finding city adequately alleged an independent relationship between it and the general contractor sufficient to overcome the exclusivity bar of the Workers’ Compensation Act.

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Phillips v. Town of Hebron, 201 Conn. App. 810 (Conn. App. 2020)

Connecticut Appellate Court decision affirming motion to dismiss in favor of town as to state law discrimination and negligence claims alleging that the district failed to comply with the terms of the minor plaintiff’s individualized education plan on the ground that the plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.

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Gerrish v. Hammick, 198 Conn. App. 816, 234 A.3d 1095 (2020)

Connecticut Appellate Court decision affirming trial court’s decision to grant defendant police lieutenant’s motion for reargument as to motion for summary judgment and granting motion as to plaintiff’s claims for defamation and tortious interference on the basis the defendant’s defamatory statement was substantially true.

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Borelli v. Renaldi, 376 Conn. 1, 243 A.3d 1084 (Conn. 2020)

Connecticut Supreme Court decision affirming trial court’s granting of summary judgment in favor of defendant officers and town as to plaintiff’s wrongful death action arising out of high-speed chase of fleeing motorist on basis duties imposed upon police officers by state statute and town’s pursuit policy involved discretionary decisions subject to governmental immunity, an issue of first impression.

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Barbabosa v. Bd. of Educ. of Town of Manchester, 189 Conn. App. 427 (App. Ct. 2019)

Connecticut Appellate Court decision affirming summary judgment in favor of the board of education on employment disability discrimination claim on the grounds that attendance was an essential function of the plaintiff’s position as a paraprofessional and that plaintiff’s request for intermittent extended leave was not a reasonable accommodation because it eliminated that essential function

Download full case here – Barbabosa v. Bd. of Educ. of Town of Manchester

Villages, LLC v. Longhi, 187 Conn. App. 132, 201 A.3d 1098 (2019)

Connecticut Appellate Court decision affirming trial court’s granting of summary judgment in favor of defendant planning and zoning commissioner, holding defendant was not in privity with commission and did not have full and fair opportunity to litigate issues in plaintiff’s prior action brought against commission and, thus, defendant was not collaterally estopped from disputing liability and defendant was not liable for tortious interference with business expectancy or fraudulent misrepresentation.

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Rodriguez v. Prentiss, CV17-6011483-S, 2019 WL 670079 (Conn. Super. Ct., Jan. 24, 2019).

Connecticut Superior Court decision granting summary judgment in favor of town defendants including high school gym teacher as to plaintiff student’s claims based upon alleged injury sustained when struck by another student with badminton racquet, while playing doubles badminton in gym class

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Babij v. Connole, No CV14-6011005-S, 2019 WL 645067 (Conn. Super. Ct., Jan. 14, 2019)

Connecticut Superior Court decision entering judgment in favor of town following a four-day courtside trial on plaintiff’s claims of nuisance, trespass, and for injunctive relief, based upon allegations town plowing of snow into pile at end of a road resulted in water runoff and flooding to plaintiff’s land.

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Burgess v. Wallingford, 589 Fed. Appx. 21 (2d Cir. June 12, 2014), cert. denied, 574 U.S. 1153, 135 S.Ct. 1401 (Feb. 23, 2015)

Second Circuit decision affirming District Court’s granting of  summary judgment in favor of town and defendant police officers on basis plaintiff had no clearly established Second Amendment right to carry a firearm openly outside the home, entitling defendant officers to qualified immunity as to plaintiff’s claims for false arrest, unlawful seizure of firearm, and violation of right to bear arms.

Download full case here – Burgess v. Wallingford