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US v. State of New York

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Sanctions
In the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) suit against affiliated owners of a number of coal-fired electric power plants in the Midwest, claiming...

Sonoma County Water Coalition v. Sonoma County Water Agency

Administrative Law, Government Law, Water Law
In plaintiffs' challenge to the elements of a county water agency's 2005 Urban Water Management Plan, trial court's grant of plaintiffs' petition for...

Chavez v. N. Mex. Pub. Educ. Dept.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
In an action raising claims against a school district requesting equitable relief, including reimbursement for the efforts of plaintiff's mother to...

Brown v. Callahan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In an action by a decedent's estate against a sheriff for failure to train and supervise the jail's medical employees and for maintaining an...

Toure v. Holder

Government Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review brought by a citizen of the Republic of the Congo of the BIA's affirmance of an IJ's denial of her application for asylum and...

Byrne v. Rutledge

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action alleging that Vermont’s denial of plaintiff's requested vanity license plate, on the grounds that it contained a religious message in...

Walgreen Co. of Deerfield, Il. v. US

Commercial Law, Government Law, International Law, International Trade
The Court of International Trade's affirmance of a decision by the Department of Commerce, that certain tissue paper contained in Walgreen's "Gift Bag...

Siskiyou County v. State Pers. Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a county's petition for writ of administrative mandamus, challenging the State Personnel Board's ruling that the county's termination of an...

Lazarin v. Superior Court

Labor & Employment Law, Oil and Gas Law, Contracts, Government Law
In three union-represented construction workers' suit against their former employer, on behalf of themselves and a putative class of former and...

People v. Jason K.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Government Law, Health Law
Trial court's denial of defendant's request for relief from an order precluding him from possessing firearms for five years after his release from a...