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In re I.B.

Family Law, Indian Law, Juvenile Law
A juvenile court order terminating the parental rights of appellant-mother with regard to her daughter, is reversed for the limited purpose of...

Chavez v. Dole Food Co. Inc.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In long-standing litigation concerning the alleged misuse of the pesticide dibromochloropropane (DBCP) on banana farms throughout Central America and...

Castro v. County of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action under state and federal law brought by a pretrial detainee who was attacked by another arrestee and suffered serious harm, alleging that...

Brennan v. Opus Bank

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a wrongful termination dispute involving an executive employment agreement containing an arbitration clause, the district court's judgment is: 1)...

Cummings v. Martel

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of petition for habeas corpus relief from conviction for first-degree murder and death sentence for killing a Los Angeles police officer, is...

Bay County, Florida v. US

Government Contracts, Public Utilities, Water Law
In the government's appeal of a decision by the US Court of Federal Claims that plaintiff is an independent regulatory body and may revise rates in...

McKinney v. McDonald

Government Benefits, Military Law
In a petition action under 38 U.S.C. section 502 to review the effective date that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) assigned to 38 C.F.R....

Crawford v. Cuomo

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a suit by former inmates alleging that the sexual abuse by a guard subjected them to cruel and unusual punishment in violation f the Eighth...

US v. Whindleton

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 922(g)(1) is affirmed where both of defendant's...

Clukey v. Camden, ME

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought by a laid-off police dispatcher, the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-town is vacated and remanded...