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Zalaski v. City of Bridgeport Police Dep't

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a civil rights action based on the allegedly unlawful breakup of an animal rights demonstration, summary judgment for defendants is vacated where...

Ostergren v. Cuccinelli

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to Virginia's Personal Information Privacy Act, which prohibits intentionally communicating another individual's social...

LeFande v. Dist. of Columbia

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging that the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) violated the First Amendment by terminating plaintiff's...

Boniface v. Dept. of Homeland Sec.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Transportation
In a petition for review of a 2009 order of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security,...

US v. Pope

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prosecution for possessing a firearm while having been previously convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, the denial of...

Brown v. Colegio De Abogados De Puerto Rico

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Insurance Law, Remedies
In a class action suit against the integrated bar association of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, arising from the organization's activity of...

Ward v. Jenkins

Constitutional Law, Construction, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's request for habeas relief from his conviction for felony theft by contractor and felony bail jumping after...

Portis v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a class action lawsuit against the city of Chicago, alleging that taking more than two hours to perform the steps needed to get from the generation...

Awkai v. Mitchell

Constitutional Law, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus from his conviction for aggravated murder of his wife and brother-in-law...

H.B. Rowe Co. Inc. v. Tippett

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a contractor's suit challenging a North Carolina statute that requires prime contractors to engage in good faith efforts to satisfy participation...