all - Opinion Summaries

Southern Union Co. v. US

Sentencing, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case involving a criminal fine for conviction of violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) for having knowingly stored...

Knox v. Service Employees International Union

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action brought on behalf of nonunion employees who paid into a union's "Emergency Temporary Assessment to Build a Political Fight-Back...

Dorsey v. US

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a sentence appeal involving the applicability of the Fair Sentencing Act (Act), which took effect on August 3, 2010 and reduced the disparity...

Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Media Law, Administrative Law, Communications Law
In an action involving the FCC's modified indecency enforcement regime to regulate "fleeting expletives," as applied to three incidents, two...

Chavez v. US

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
In a Bivens action alleging, among other things, that Border Patrol agents violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights when they repeatedly stopped...

Kam-Almaz v. US

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a US citizen whose laptop computer was detained and destroyed by ICE when returning home from an overseas business trip,...

Rickards v. United Parcel Service

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against UPS for violating the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Gov. Code section 12900 et seq., the trial court's finding that...

Vilchez v. Holder

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of a Board of Immigrant Appeals (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of application for cancellation...

Gomex v. Superior Court (Felker)

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Code of Civil Procedure section 259(a), which authorizes commissioners to hear and determine ex parte motions for orders and alternative writs and...

People v. Brown

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a petition for review challenging the Court of Appeal's decision to apply former Penal Code section 4019 retroactively, the court's decision is...