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Lakin v. Barnhart

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action in which plaintiff-inmates allege that defendants acted with deliberate indifference to a...

Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Brewer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Transportation
In an action challenging an Arizona policy which prohibits recipients of the federal program called the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" from...

Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc. v. Sorrell

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Government Law, Media Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants, Vermont officials charged with enforcing Vermont elections statutes, in a constitutional challenge to...

People v. Marquan M.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Education Law
Defendant's conviction for cyberbullying after anonymously posting sexual information about fellow classmates on a publicly-accessible internet...

MadStad Engineering, Inc. v. USPTO

Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of a constitutional challenge to the "first-inventor-to-file" provision of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is affirmed, where...

Sandoval v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Civil Rights
Summary judgment in favor of defendant police department and officers in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendant-officers violated...

Harris v. Quinn

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under Illinois' Home Services Program (Rehabilitation Program), which allows Medicaid recipients who would normally need institutional care to hire a...

Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims seeking damages against defendant-American corporation for the torture and mistreatment of foreign nationals at the...

Rajamin v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.

Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts
Dismissal of plaintiff-mortgagors' complaint alleging that mortgagees' assignments of the loans and mortgages to defendant trusts were ineffective...

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) does not permit the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demand that...