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Walden v. City of Providence

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by current and former employees, and their families, of the police and fire departments, against defendant-city and several city...

Brown v. Ala. Dept. of Trans.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Transportation
In a Title VII action alleging a racially discriminatory failure to promote plaintiff, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed in part where there was...

Gonzalez-Vera v. Townley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Judgement Enforcement
In an action seeking to invoke one of 18 U.S.C. section 3523's enforcement procedures, the appointment of a guardian to help collect a judgment...

Bush v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by six minority members of a police department claiming that defendant police supervisor's racially discriminatory conduct and the...

Wright-Hines v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
Denial of plaintiff's claims for supplemental security income and disability insurance benefits is affirmed where: 1) the ALJ noted that a written...

Michigan Bell Tel. Co. v. Chappelle

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
In an action by a state telephone-utility commission and several competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) against Michigan Bell (an incumbent local...

City of Dallas v. Abbott

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a declaratory action by the City of Dallas seeking to except certain information under the Public Information Act from disclosure, judgment of the...

City of Waco v. Kelley

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by an assistant chief of police challenging his indefinite suspension for being arrested and charged with drunk-driving in another city,...

In re Christopher C.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law
Juvenile court's decision declaring six of seven children to be placed in the care of DCFS, and an order for various physical and mental treatment for...

In re Marriage of Sonne

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a marital dissolution action involving the proper apportionment of the service credit from the parties' marriage, a member of the California Public...