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JOHNSON v. ECON. DEV. CORP. OF COUNTY OF OAKLAND

Constitutional Law
Issuance of tax-exempt revenue bonds to finance construction of private religious school buildings does not violate the First Amendment's...

WEAVER v. BOWERSOX

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Deference to the trial judge's determination of potential jurors' demanor, fitness and bias requires that petitioner put forth evidence other than...

CHOWDHURY v. RENO

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Where petitioner never received a meaningful opportunity to be heard in deportation proceedings, and the Board of Immigration knew that petitioner...

BETTS v. LITSCHER

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Unless the court is satisfied that a defendant who is constitutionally entitled to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal would be making a...

GLENN v. CITY OF TYLER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Handcuffing too tightly, without more, does not amount to excessive force. Where officers had probable cause to arrest plaintiff and did not act...

WILLIAMS v. DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT

Constitutional Law
A regional transportation authority organized under Tex. Transp. Code Ann. ch. 452 is not an arm of the state entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity...

FLAGNER v. WILKINSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Prison officials who cut prisoner's hair and beard in 1996 in violation of prisoner's religious beliefs, but pursuant to prison policy, are entitled...

CHAPMAN v. KELTNER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Where doctor's "prescribed treatment" was not that plaintiff avoid stairs altogether, but that she take them "one at a time," law enforcement officers...

CM v. THE BD. OF EDUC. OF HENDERSON COUNTY

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
As long as a party seeking a due process hearing is supplied with notice that a statute requires filing a request for the hearing within a specified...

BD. OF TR. OF THE UNIV. OF ALABAMA v. GARRETT

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
State employees may not sue in federal court to recover money damages for the State's failure to comply with the ADA because Congress' abrogation of...