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Ammons v. Washington Dept. of Social and Health Servs.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In a Section 1983 action alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's due process right to safe conditions while in the involuntary custody of a...

Cox v. Warwick Valley Cent. School Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Juvenile Law
In a Section 1983 action arising out of the suspension of plaintiff for misbehavior at school, summary judgment in favor of the defendant is affirmed...

Dougherty v. City of Covina

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a Section 1983 action involving a Monell claim and arising from the illegal seizure of evidence of child pornography from the plaintiff's home...

People of the Virgin Islands v. John

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an interlocutory criminal appeal involving the validity of the seizure of evidence from the defendant's home based on a warrant for evidence of...

Nevada Department of Corrections v. Cohen

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a dispute involving a constitutional challenge to a prison policy prohibiting inmates’ personal possession of typewriters, judgment of the district...

Briscoe v. City of New Haven

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute involving a disparate-impact challenge to defendant's promotion practices and where the plaintiff, an African-American firefighter for...

Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs v. County of Los Angeles

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Due Process challenge to the suspension, without pay, of police officers charged with felonies, judgment of the district court is affirmed in...

People v. Singh

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a dispute concerning whether subjecting sex offenders convicted under Penal Code section 288(a) to mandatory sex offender registration violates...

People v. Lowery

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a criminal dispute involving whether defendant's conviction for willfully threatening violence against a crime witness or victim, Pen. Code section...

National Organization For Marriage v. Daluz

cs_80, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a dispute arising from a denial of a preliminary injunction in plaintiff's challenge to the constitutionality of a state election law requiring the...