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Mashantucket Pequot Tribe v. Town of Ledyard

Constitutional Law, Gaming Law, Indian Law, Tax Law
Judgment for plaintiff-tribe in an action challenging defendant-town's imposition of a state personal property tax on vendors who leased slot machines...

United States Marine, Inc. v. US

Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
In an action alleging that the government misappropriated plaintiff's trade secrets, the Fifth Circuit's decision vacating the district court’s...

Liberty University, Inc. v. Lew

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the district court's dismissal of an action challenging two provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable...

Redfern v. Napolitano

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Transportation
Judgment dismissing an action challenging the constitutionality of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) use of Advanced Imaging...

Today's Fresh Start, Inc. v. Los Angeles County Office of Education

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
The Court of Appeals' decision denying plaintiff writ relief in plaintiff's challenge to its school's charter revocation is affirmed, where: 1) the...

Townley v. Miller

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
The district court's preliminary injunction an action challenging the legal effect section of a Nevada election law, which allows voters the ability...

Bender v. County of Los Angeles

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence
Judgment for plaintiff in an action brought pursuant to the Bane Act, based on his unlawful arrest and beating administered by sheriff's deputies...

Brown v. United Air Lines, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
Dismissal of plaintiff-skycaps' common-law claims for unjust enrichment and tortious interference based on the defendant-airlines' imposition and...

City of Glendale v. US

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Gaming Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment for federal defendants in action by plaintiff-city seeking to set aside the U.S. Dept. of the Interior's decision to accept in trust,...

Kwong v. Bloomberg

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants in challenge to New York law that permits New York City and Nassau County to set and collect a residential handgun...