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Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Segardia de Jesus

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses against Puerto Rico's Controlled Access Law, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 23, sections 64-64h (2008), allowing...

Home Prods. Int'l, Inc. v. US

Administrative Law, Government Law, International Trade
In a case concerning the obligation of a court to remand a case to an administrative agency when new evidence indicates that the agency's proceedings...

Mathis v. County of Lyon

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Denial of qualified immunity to a deputy who entered the residence of a recently deceased man and carried away personal property, some of which he...

Caceres v. The Port Authority of New York & Jersey

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a plaintiff who was detained for two days on a warrant erroneously attributed to him, judgment and damage award against the...

Penalbert-Rosa v. Fortuno-Burset

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, alleging that a government employee's termination violated her federal constitutional rights to...

Alameda Books v. City of Los Angeles

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In a challenge to a city ordinance for the dispersal of adult entertainment businesses, alleging violations of the First Amendment, grant of summary...

United Automobile, Aerospace, Ag. Implement Workers of Am. Int'l Union v. Fortuno

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against Governor Luis A. Fortuno and a number of other Puerto Rico government officials, brought by a collection of labor organizations and...

Innovair Aviation Ltd. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law
Decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims that the Government had taken an aviation company's property without just compensation under the...

Smith v. Dunmore

Labor & Employment Law, Civil Rights, Government Law
Grant of summary judgment against a firefighter on his due process claims under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 are vacated and remanded for consideration of...

Int'l Assn. of Fire Fighters v. Pub. Employment Relations Bd.

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by a firefighters union, the lower courts' decision, that no unfair labor practice had occurred when the City of Richmond decided...