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People v. Lynch

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for first degree murders of three victims, residential burglary, robbery and other crimes, and sentence of death are affirmed...

People v. Jennings

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for first degree murder of his five-year-old son, jury's finding true the special circumstance that the murder was intentional...

Griswold v. Driscoll

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In plaintiffs' suit against a Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education of Massachusetts, claiming that the Commissioner's revision of an...

Lee v. Andersen

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an action alleging excessive force against a police officer, judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) an expert's opinion that plaintiff's...

McAllister v. Price

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's suit against an officer, claiming that the officer violated his Fourth Amendment rights by using excessive force to remove plaintiff...

Snatchko v. Westfield LLC

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's suit against a mall and others, claiming civil rights violation, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and...

US v. Lighty

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
In a federal prosecution of defendants for kidnapping resulting in death and related crimes, district court's imposition of a life sentence upon one...

Romanelli v. Suliene

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a jail physician and a jail sergeant, claiming that his right to receive acceptable medical care...

Brooks v. Gaenzle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an action claiming that defendant-officers violated plaintiff's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure by use of excessive...

S&M Brands Inc. v. Caldwell

Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law
In an action claiming that the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) reached in the 1990s between the four largest tobacco manufacturers and the several...