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Consol. Coal Co. v. US

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit by a group of operators in the coal mining industry, the United States court of Federal Claims' grant of summary judgment finding that...

Krainski v. Nevada

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an action alleging constitutional and state law violations by a college student arising from an altercation with plaintiff's former roommate that...

Valle v. Houston

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action based on an incident in which decedent was shot and killed by Houston police officers during an incident at his family's home, summary...

Moss v. Martin

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against several state officials, claiming that he was fired as the Chief of the Highway Sign Shop of the...

Scott v. Fischer

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action claiming that defendants deprived plaintiff of liberty without due process of law both by placing her on mandatory post-release...

Purvis v. Oest

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former high school teacher's suit against a school district's superintendent and others claiming deprivation of due process and false arrest,...

Coombs v. Diguglielmo

Constitutional Law, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's request for habeas relief, claiming that the prosecutor exercised his peremptory challenges in violation of...

Scott v. Roberts

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an emergency appeal from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction by Richard Scott, a candidate for the Republican Party for Governor of...

McDermott v. Royal

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action claiming that plaintiff suffered First Amendment violations during her arrest and prosecution for obstructing police officers who...

Parish v. Elkhart

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's civil rights case against a city and several officers for serving eight years of a thirty-year prison sentence for attempted murder, of...