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Scheffer v. Civ. Serv. Employees' Ass'n

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by public-sector employees who, as nonmembers of the union that represented them for collective-bargaining purposes, challenged...

Free Enterprise Fund v. Pub. Co. Acctg. Oversight Bd.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Constitutional Law
In an action against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and its members, seeking, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that the Board was...

Christian Legal Soc. v. Martinez

Government Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In an action against Hastings College of Law, a public law school, alleging that Hastings' refusal to grant a Christian group "Registered Student...

US v. White

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prosecution for soliciting a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 373, involving the posting on defendant's website of personal...

Wedgewood Ltd. P'ship I v. Township of Liberty

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a property owner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a town and its Board of Trustees, arising from an adoption of a zoning ordinance that...

Kimbrough v. State of Cal.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action claiming that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) grooming regulations concerning hair length interfered...

Muscarello v. Ogle County Bd. of Comm'rs

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
In plaintiff's suit against multiple defendants asserting various claims based on the U.S. Constitution, the Illinois Constitution, Illinois statutes,...

Doe v. Reed

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a First Amendment challenge to the Washington Public Records Act based on its provision permitting the disclosure of referendum petition signers'...

Ebert v. Gaetz

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief from his murder and armed robbery conviction is affirmed where: 1) a state court's...

Parra v. Neal

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit, brought by registered voters against the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago and its members,...