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Devia v. NRC

Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
Challenge to respondent's decision to grant a license permitting the construction and operation of a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Utah, on...

Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Auth.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a long-running litigation over racial discrimination in public housing in Chicago, award of attorney's fees to plaintiffs' attorneys is affirmed...

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Blount

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an insurer's declaratory judgment suit seeking a determination that a homeowner's insurance policy it issued to defendant did not provide coverage...

Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle Co., Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a bank's declaratory judgment action brought against a husband and wife, and their family farm and ranch business located on tribal land, seeking...

Morris v. Hicks

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
An order reversing a decision of the bankruptcy court that granted bankruptcy trustee's complaint for lien avoidance is reversed where a bankruptcy...

Burns v. California Fair Plan

Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case where home was destroyed by fire and insurer paid insured on a pro rata basis according the value of their interests in the property, summary...

Nitco Holding Corp. v. Boujikian

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A party procedurally defaults a civil appeal, based on alleged insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, if it fails to file a...

Wilkie v. Robbins

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought by the owner and operator of a commercial guest resort against officials of the Bureau of Land Management alleging harassment and...

Mongeau v. City of Marlborough

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit alleging that a denial of building permits violated plaintiff's substantive due process rights, grant of judgment for defendant-official is...