all - Opinion Summaries

Hardwick v. Heyward

Education Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment for defendant-school officials on plaintiff's 1983 action alleging violations of her First and Fourteenth amendment rights when...

Rodriguez-Reyes v. Molina-Rodriguez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of complaint alleging political discrimination following regime change is: 1) reversed in part and remanded, where the factual allegations...

Ellins v. City of Sierra Madre

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by a police officer alleging his salary increase was delayed in retaliation for the exercise of his First...

Trail v. Local 2850 UAW

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's claim alleging that defendant-union officials violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Act) by retaliating...

Woollard v. Gallagher

Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
District court's injunction permanently enjoining enforcement of Maryland statute to the extent that it conditions eligibility for a permit to carry,...

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Environmental Law, Government Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech
Summary judgment for defendants in action brought by plaintiff to compel defendants to finalize its regulation of triclosan and triclocarban, two...

Wos v. E. M. A.

Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits
The federal anti-lien provision pre-empts North Carolina's irrebuttable statutory presumption that one-third of a tort recovery is attributable to...

Abbott Laboratories v. Cordis Corporation

Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
District court properly granted defendant's motion to quash two subpoenas duces tecum, where: 1) 35 U.S.C. section 24 only empowers a district court...

Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a citizen suit brought under the Clean Water Act (CWA) alleging that defendants had not obtained National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...