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US v. Aguasvivas-Castillo

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Government Benefits
On appeal by an owner of a supermarket chain convicted for food stamp fraud and money laundering, the district court's application of sentence...

Antilles Cement Corp. v. Fortuno

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a suit by an importer of foreign cement seeking a declaratory judgment that two statutes of Puerto Rico violate the dormant foreign commerce...

Lyons v. Brady

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
In a habeas corpus proceeding claiming a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair trial, the district court's denial of the...

US v. Barner

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a federal prosecution of a parolee for being a previously convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, the district court's grant of a...

Bowers v. Whitman

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an appeal from an order of dismissal by the district court, order is affirmed where Oregon's modification of the remedies available under Measure...

People v. Nelson

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Conviction and sentencing of defendant-juvenile for first-degree murder and other related-offenses are upheld because a juvenile claiming a postwaiver...

In re Garcia

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a writ challenge the denial of petitioner-inmate's request to participate in an existing, prison kosher meals program, petition is granted where...

Lee-Thomas v. Prince George's County Public Schools

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court partially rejecting appellant's assertion of Eleventh Amendment immunity against plaintiff's...

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the appeals court vacating the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's ADA action on the grounds that the defendant was...

Perry v. New Hampshire

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
In an appeal from a judgment of the State Supreme Court upholding the conviction of defendant for theft by unauthorized taking, judgment is affirmed...