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Powell's Books, Inc. v. Kroger

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a First Amendment challenge to Oregon statutes criminalizing providing minors under the age of eighteen with visual, verbal, or narrative...

Guajardo-Palma v. Martinson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an inmate's suit claiming that his constitutional rights were violated when prison guards opened legal mail addressed to him outside his presence,...

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petro. Co.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Oil and Gas Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an action by residents of Nigeria claiming that Dutch, British, and Nigerian corporations engaged in oil exploration and production aided and...

Faghri v. Univ. of Conn.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendants unconstitutionally retaliated against plaintiff for his exercise of his right to free speech in violation of the...

Braswell v. Shoreline Fire Dept.

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging that plaintiff had a property interest in his employment with a town and a liberty interest in pursuing his profession as a...

Astralis Condo. Ass'n v. Sec'y, U.S. Dep't of Housing & Urban Dev.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against condominium association claiming that plaintiffs were entitled to preferred parking spaces at their residence by reason of their...

Holzemer v. City of Memphis

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' suit against a city, a police sergeant and various city officials under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for alleged violations of First, Fourth,...

US v. Pool

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In defendant's appeal from the district court's implementation of 18 U.S.C. sections 3142(b) and (c)(1)(A), requiring defendant to give a DNA sample...

Dunn v. Castro

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a challenge to a restriction that was temporarily imposed on plaintiff's right to receive visits from his three minor children while he was in...

Jackson v. Watkins

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that plaintiff, a veteran county prosecutor, was discharged on account of his race in violation of Title VII, summary judgment...