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Ortega v. Lynch

Immigration Law
In an immigration action, the Board of Immigration Appeals decision denying petitioner's request for asylum and withholding of removal are reversed...

Gray v. Zook

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a habeas corpus case, the district court's dismissal of the petition is affirmed where: 1) The Supreme Court of Virginia's resolution of...

Maryland v. Kulbicki

Evidence, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a petition for postconviction relief from first-degree murder conviction, claiming that defendant's defense attorneys were ineffective for failing...

Starkey v. G Adventures, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In a negligence action against a travel company, the district court's dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where defendant had reasonably...

City of Los Angeles v. Patel

Constitutional Law
In a case brought by motel operators and a lodging association challenging Los Angeles Municipal Code section 41.49, which requires hotel operators to...

Paulsen v. Remington Lodging & Hospitality

Labor & Employment Law
Denial of a petition for an injunction prohibiting hotelier-defendant from engaging in unfair labor practices and ordering the immediate reinstatement...

Northwest, Inc. v. Ginsberg

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Transportation
In an action alleging that defendant-airlines violated the duty of good faith and fair dealing when it terminated plaintiff's membership in its...

In re Transient Occupancy Tax Cases

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Cyberspace Law, Tax Law
The trial court's ruling that under the plain language of San Diego's transient occupancy tax (TOT), online travel companies (OTCs) have no TOT...

George v. Rehiel

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Transportation
In an action against agents from the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which plaintiff claims that...

Patel v. City of Los Angeles

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action challenging Los Angeles Municipal Code section 41.49, which authorized on-site inspections of hotel guest records by any police officer,...