Adair v. England

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting plaintiffs’ 33 “assumption” that “the usual rule for a chaplain sitting on a promotion board will be to discriminate against promotion candidates on the basis of religious denomination” (citation omitted)
• elementary school principal’s demotion to teaching position at another school in retaliation for voicing opposition to proposed closure of her school did not shock the conscience
• “In order to be liable for a primary violation of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, a defendant must have personally made 23 either an allegedly untrue statement or a material omission.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).