all - Opinion Summaries

Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice

Banking Law, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 does not preclude the plaintiffs' state-law class actions, which allege that defendants helped...

Kaley v. US

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
When challenging the legality of a 21 U.S.C. section 853(e)(1) pre-trial asset seizure, a criminal defendant who has been indicted is not...

Fernandez v. California

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The rule of Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U. S. 103 (2006), that the consent of one occupant to a search is insufficient when another occupant is present...

Walden v. Fiore

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a tort action filed in Nevada arising out of allegations against a Georgia police officer who searched plaintiffs at a Georgia airport, seized a...

Matusick v. Erie County Water Authority

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment for plaintiff in an action alleging employment discrimination and harassment is: 1) affirmed in part, where plaintiff presented sufficient...

Solus Industrial Innovations v. Superior Court (People)

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The trial court erred in overruling defendants' demurrer to two causes of action filed against them by the District Attorney, alleging a right to...

People v. Rosalinda

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
The trial court's order committing defendant as a mentally retarded person who is a danger to herself and others to California Psychiatric...

Clear Sky Car Wash LLC v. City of Chesapeake

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit challenging defendant-city's actions in initiating a "quick take" proceeding of plaintiff's property as part of a...

Stevenson v. City of Seat Pleasant

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action alleging that defendant-officers assaulted plaintiffs, the district court's orders are: 1) reversed in part as to the grant...

Sheehan v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-county in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act alleging...