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Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC v. Shumlin

Constitutional Law, Public Utilities, Tax Law
Dismissal of plaintiffs' suit brought against various state officers in their official capacities claiming that a Generating Tax imposed solely...

Pierre v. Holder

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
The petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) removal order is denied, where: 1) petitioner was not entitled to automatic...

Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted in an action in which the Eleventh Circuit held that: 1) certain promises made by an employer...

Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Public Utilities
In a suit in which plaintiff sought a declaration that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 preempted the Iowa Utilities Board's (IUB) decision that...

Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of a complaint in an action brought to recover a masterpiece French impressionist painting that was allegedly taken from the plaintiffs'...

Nguyen v. Department of Homeland Security

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Merit Systems Protection Board properly determined that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not impermissibly subject petition to double...

Angov v. Holder

Constitutional Law, Evidence, Immigration Law
A petition for review of the denial of asylum and related relief in a case in which the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied relief on adverse...

US v. Canori

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Judgment sentencing defendant to thirty months' imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to...

Federal Insurance Company v. WCAB

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Sports Law, Workers' Compensation
In a workers' compensation claim brought by a professional basketball player who was not employed by a California team, has never resided in...

Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. US

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Evidence, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, which found that government induced flooding can qualify as a Fifth Amendment taking even if it is temporary in...