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Old Republic Construction Program Group v. Boccardo Law Firm

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Workers' Compensation
The trial court's order denying defendants' motion under the anti-SLAPP law, to strike three causes of action asserted against them by plaintiff,...

Hildebrand v. Allegheny County

Labor & Employment Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Dismissal of plaintiff-government employee's complaint alleging age discrimination is: 1) affirmed in part, where a state or local government employee...

Maine Association of Retirees v. Board of Trustees of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiffs' claims that certain amendments to Maine's public employee retirement system violate the...

Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co.

Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation, Constitutional Law, Evidence
In an action brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) alleging that defendant-employer failed to reasonably accommodate...

NLRB v. Noel Canning

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to an order of the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that the Board lacked a quorum because three of the five Board members had...

McCullen v. Coakley

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Massachusetts' Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act, which makes it a crime to knowingly stand on a public way or sidewalk within 35 feet of an...

People v. Brown

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction of possession of a "short-barreled shotgun" under former Penal Code section 12020 is affirmed, where California's ban on...

Snyder v. Gaudet

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's rights to equal protection when he was fined under a local land use...

Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer

Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law, Constitutional Law, ERISA
In an action in which plaintiffs allege that defendants breached the fiduciary duty of prudence imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals' holding that defendant does not infringe plaintiffs' copyrights by selling its subscribers a technologically...