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County of Los Angeles v. Hill

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In an appeal from an order granting a preliminary injunction prohibiting defendants from dispensing marijuana anywhere in the unincorporated area of...

California School Boards Assn. v. State of California

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a lawsuit challenging the practice of deferring, rather than paying in full, the cost of the state-imposed mandates, the trial court properly...

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Segardia de Jesus

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses against Puerto Rico's Controlled Access Law, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 23, sections 64-64h (2008), allowing...

Anders v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County (Meritage Homes of CA, Inc.)

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an action by petitioners for a writ of mandate in an underlying suit seeking remedies for alleged construction defects in 54 homes, the trial...

Mathis v. County of Lyon

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Denial of qualified immunity to a deputy who entered the residence of a recently deceased man and carried away personal property, some of which he...

Del-Toro-Pacheco v. Pereira

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a political discrimination case, alleging that plaintiff was fired from his job at the Puerto Rico Department of Correction and Rehabilitation...

Hrdlicka v. Reniff

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law
In consolidated suits brought by the publisher of Crime, Justice & America, claiming that their First Amendment rights are being violated by the mail...

Alameda Books v. City of Los Angeles

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In a challenge to a city ordinance for the dispersal of adult entertainment businesses, alleging violations of the First Amendment, grant of summary...

United Automobile, Aerospace, Ag. Implement Workers of Am. Int'l Union v. Fortuno

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against Governor Luis A. Fortuno and a number of other Puerto Rico government officials, brought by a collection of labor organizations and...

Gilman v. Schwarzenegger

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In an action by eight California life-term prisoners who represent a class of similarly situated California prisoners, alleging that Proposition 9,...