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People v. Sanders

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
On appeal from a judgment committing the appellant to a two-year term as a sexually violent predator pursuant to a stipulated agreement, the judgment...

Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens by Orange County Commissioner of Finance

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case in which the owners of property that had been foreclosed upon and was put up for auction sale moved by order to show cause to stay the sale...

Howes v. Fields

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
On petition for habeas corpus challenging the admissibility of a confession given while the prisoner was questioned by corrections officers within a...

US v. $133,420.00 in United States Currency

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In a civil forfeiture action instituted by the government after it seized $133,420 found in the car of a person stopped by the police, the district...

Vega v. Walsh

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
The district court's denial of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed, where: 1) evidence of the defendant's uncharged crimes and "Enforcer" tattoo...

Smith v. Dickhaut

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The district court's denial of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed, where the prisoner's counsel had not rendered ineffective assistance at...

Beer v. US

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Judges & Judiciary
In a class action by judges who were part of a certified class in Williams v. US, 240 F.3d 1019 (Fed. Cir. 2001), involving the question of whether...

Baker v. Goldman Sachs & Co.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Media Law
In a suit in which the plaintiffs sought to depose a journalist regarding two articles published in the Wall Street Journal, the district court's...

In re Thompkins

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
On petition for a writ of habeas corpus asserting that an order of the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) denying the petitioner an advanced parole...

Leigh v. Salazar

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Media Law
In a suit by a photojournalist contending that viewing restrictions at a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) horse roundup violated her First Amendment...