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Pelache v. State of Texas

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a conviction of defendant for second-degree felony offense of robbery, court of appeals' reversal of trial court's sentence concluding that...

Monahan v. Romney

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and several members of the Governor's senior staff claiming that the defendants...

Turley v. Gaetz

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an inmate's pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claiming that a warden, guards, and other employees at a correctional center retaliated...

Texas Gas Transmissions, LLC v. Butler County of Bd. of Comm'r

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief, brought by Butler County and Texas Gas, seeking a declaration of the priority of their respective...

Johnson v. Bredesen

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections, Government Law
In a suit filed by Tennessee residents and convicted felons, claiming that the Tennessee's voter re-franchisement statute, which conditions...

Fletcher v. Menard Corr. Ctr.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an inmate's civil rights suit against prison employees, claiming that defendants violated his federal constitutional rights by using excessive...

Parkey v. Sample

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a state trooper, claiming that the trooper violated plaintiff's rights under the Fourth Amendment...

Doe v. Shurtleff

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law
In an appeal by a registered sex offender living in Utah from the district court’s order allowing enforcement of a Utah statute requiring all sex...

Gonzalez v. Arizona

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Immigration Law
In an action raising the questions whether Arizona Proposition 200 violated the Voting Rights Act, was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth or...

Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights v. San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action by Catholics and a Catholic advocacy group against San Francisco on account of an official resolution denouncing their church and...