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Morton v. State

Construction, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a personal injury action arising out of work performed by plaintiff for New York Water Service Corporation, a private company that furnished water...

Yost v. Stout

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Elections, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 challenge to the "endorsement clause" of the Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct that generally prohibits a judge or judicial...

Shames v. Cal. Travel & Tourism Comm.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Law, Transportation
In an action against the California Travel and Tourism Commission (CTTC) alleging that the CTTC engaged in antitrust price-fixing in violation of the...

Awad v. Obama

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, Military Law
In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the denial of the petition is affirmed where: 1) there was no...

El-Shifa Pharm. Indus. Co. v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
In an action by the owners of a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant against the U.S. for unjustifiably destroying the plant, failing to compensate...

Greene v. Marin County Flood Control & Water Conservation Dist.

Administrative Law, Elections, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a property owner's suit challenging the election results of a passage of the flood control district's proposal of a storm drainage fee fund...

Iowa Tribe of Ks. v. Salazar

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by an Indian tribe claiming that the Secretary of the Interior improperly took a small tract of land into trust on behalf of the...

Brown v. City of Huntsville

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action bringing federal and state claims for false arrest and excessive force by the police, the district court's grant of summary judgment to...

FDIC v. Great Am. Ins. Co.

Banking Law, Contracts, Government Law, Insurance Law
In an action for breach of an insurance contract, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where the district court erred in ruling that the...

Nielson v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
The final judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims denying petitioner entitlement to Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient dental...