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Levin v. Commerce Energy, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Oil and Gas Law, Tax Law
In an action by independent natural gas marketers (IMs) who offered to sell natural gas to Ohio consumers against the Ohio Tax Commissioner...

Phillips v. Bradshaw

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In habeas proceedings arising from a conviction for rape and aggravated murder and a death sentence, denial of the petition is affirmed where: 1)...

Greene v. Palakovich

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief for his convictions for second degree murder, robbery, and conspiracy, is affirmed...

Scalzo v. Am. Express Co.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's action for invasion of privacy, violation of California Financial Information Privacy Act, and other claims, trial court's grant of two...

Zaleski v. Burns

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action seeking an order that plaintiff's allegations -- specifically, that there was a conspiracy to deny criminal defendants their...

Harvey v. Brewer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections, Government Law
In actions challenging Arizona's felon disenfranchisement scheme, dismissal of the action is affirmed where the Fourteenth Amendment permits states to...

Beutz v. County of Riverside

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a residential property owner's suit against a county to void a landscape assessment on the ground that it violated article XIII D of the California...

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. v. Happening House Ventures

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In a free medical clinic's suit for breach of fiduciary duty and other claims against its founder and a limited partnership, formed to assist the...

World Wide Rush, LLC v. Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a First Amendment action to enjoin the enforcement of certain Los Angeles billboard regulations, summary judgment for plaintiffs is reversed where:...

James v. Rowlands

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action claiming that defendants violated plaintiff's substantive and procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to...