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Girts v. Yanai

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a prosecution of defendant for the murder of his wife, district court's decision to grant an unconditional writ but not to bar retrial following...

Prime Time Int'l. Co. v. Vilsack

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
In an action by a manufacturer of small cigars challenging its assessments as a manufacturer of tobacco products under the Fair and Equitable Tobacco...

SpeechNow.org v. FEC

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Elections
In a challenge to the Federal Elections Commission's (FEC) draft advisory opinion concluding that under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA),...

Brooks v. Seattle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action against a city and its police officers claiming the officers used excessive force when they tased plaintiff three times to effect her...

Valdivia v. Schwarzenegger

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies
In proceedings related to a November 2003 injunction based on a stipulation between plaintiff and a class of similarly situated California parolees,...

Williams v. Jackson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In an Eighth Amendment claim against a prison maintenance supervisor and three correction officers alleging that they willfully and maliciously...

Felder v. King

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging an unlawful police shooting, defendants' appeal from a denial of qualified immunity is dismissed where the...

Good v. Curtis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In an action claiming that defendant-officer violated plaintiff's rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments when he manipulated a photographic...

Dahlen v. Shelter House

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Construction, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action claiming a violation of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause and requesting damages as well as an injunction to prevent the planned...

Mendoza v. ADP Screening & Selection Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action for damages against a business involved in conducting a pre-employment background check for employment purposes, claiming...