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Makaeff v. Trump University, LLC

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a dispute brought by plaintiff, a disgruntled former customer, against defendant Trump University for deceptive practices, the district court...

Rodriguez v. Robbins

Administrative Law, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
The district court properly granted a preliminary injunction to a certified class of non-citizens who challenged their prolonged detentions, requiring...

Missouri v. McNeely

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Judgment finding that the nonconsensual warrantless blood test violated defendant's Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches of his...

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Oil and Gas Law, Constitutional Law
The Alien Tort Statute does not reach conduct occurring in a foreign sovereign's territory, where: 1) the presumption against extraterritoriality...

Sabey v. City of Pomona

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Labor & Employment Law
When a partner in a law firm represents a department within a city at an advisory arbitration regarding a personnel matter, and when the city’s...

Cameron v. Craig

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment for defendants in 1983 action in which plaintiff alleged that her Fourth Amendment rights were violated when San Diego County...

Associated General Contractors of Am. v. California Dept. of Transp.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Transportation
Appeal from summary judgment for defendants in 1983 action in which plaintiff asserted that defendant's 2009 Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program...

Wige v. City of Los Angeles

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary judgment for defendants in 1983 action for false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution is reversed and remanded, because...

Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
A collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) on behalf of respondent and other employees similarly situated, was...

US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen

Constitutional Law, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action under section 502(a)(3), which authorizes health-plan administrators to bring a civil action to obtain appropriate equitable relief...