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US ex rel. Oberg v. Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corp.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Education Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a False Claims Act (FCA) case brought as a qui tam action, alleging defendant corporations organized by four states defrauded the US Department of...

Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak

Environmental Law, Gaming Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit brought under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenging a deal to take into trust on the Tribe's behalf a tract of land for gaming...

Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter

Education Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In an action brought by Tribes under the Contract Disputes Act for breach of contract, arising out of agreements with the Department of the Interior...

Project Vote v. Long

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
Section 8(i)(1) of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which requires public disclosure of "all records concerning the implementation of...

Samson v. City of Bainbridge Island

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by homeowners seeking damages for the thirty-one months during which they were barred from improving their shoreline property by a city's...

Tomlinson v. County of Alameda

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies provision in Pub. Resources Code section 21177(a), stating that a public agency's approval of a proposed...

US v. California State Lands Commission

Environmental Law, Government Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an eminent domain case, wherein the US took a fee simple interest in about 32.42 acres of land on behalf of the Navy, and in so condemning the...

The Real Truth About Abortion v. Federal Election Commission

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In an action by a Virginia non-profit corporation organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code to provide "accurate and truthful...

In the Matter of N. Syracuse Central Sch. Dist. v. New York State Div. of Human Rights

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
A public school district is not an "education corporation or association" as contemplated by Executive Law section 296 (4), and therefore, the New...

Okwu v. McKim

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In an action by a former employee of California Department of Transportation, brought after defendants determined her psychological disorders made her...