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US v. Wisecarver

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law
Defendant's conviction for depredation of government property is reversed where a supplemental instruction given by the district court was plainly...

California Attorneys v. Schwarzennegger

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Trial court's grant of a petition for writ of mandate prohibiting Governor Schwarzenegger and the director of the Department of Personnel...

K.C. v. Sup. Ct.

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law
A mother's request for an extraordinary writ to vacate the orders of the juvenile court denying reunification services is denied as the juvenile court...

Dillingham-Ray Wilson v. City of Los Angeles

Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
In plaintiff's breach of public works contract against a city, judgment of the trial court is reversed and remanded where the trial court erred...

Bath Iron Works Corp. v. Fields

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In plaintiff-employer's claim for disability benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), the Benefits Review Board's...

Golden & Zimmerman, LLC v. Domenech

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action against the ATF, seeking a judgment declaring that an answer to one of the frequently asked questions in the ATF's published "Federal...

Desert Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Oakland

Commercial Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action claiming that the city of Oakland's billboard ordinances violated the First Amendment, denial of plaintiff's motion to clarify the...

Vainisi v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Tax Law
The Tax Court's holding that the petitioners were entitled to deduct only 80 percent of the expense that their QSub bank had incurred in borrowing...

T.E. v. Grindle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against an elementary principal and the school district's band teacher arising from molestation of several young...

Calvao v. Town of Framingham

Administrative Law, Class Actions, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In police officers' putative class action suit against a town claiming that the town failed to pay them sufficient overtime in violation of the FLSA,...