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Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

NRG Power Mktg., LLC v. Maine Pub. Utils. Comm.

Administrative Law, Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
In a petition for review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) approval of a settlement agreement establishing rate-setting mechanisms...

Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

In re Miguel H.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Juvenile Law
An order sustaining a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 after the juvenile court found defendant possessed tools to commit...

Carr v. Tillery

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In an attorney-plaintiff's RICO suit against his former law partners involving a dispute over the division of legal fees in cases handled by the law...

Elliot-Park v. Manglona

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on officers' alleged failure to investigate a crime or arrest the alleged perpetrator because of the race of...

Richardson v. Runnels

Civil Rights, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action by a prisoner alleging that he was placed in racially discriminatory lockdowns, summary judgment for defendants is...

Nebraska Pub. Power Dist. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
In an action for a breach of contract against the United States over a dispute involving the interaction between a provision of the Nuclear Waste...

San Diego County Health & Human Serv. Agency v. Deidre B.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In a petition by a County Public Conservator to reestablish a conservatorship of an individual under the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act on the...

Gilbert v. Illinois State Bd. Educ.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action against the Board of Education of a High School District arising from his discharge as a high school social studies teacher and...