all - Opinion Summaries

Midwest Title Loans, Inc. v. Mills

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law
In a title loan company's suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 to enjoin, as a violation of the Commerce Clause, the application to plaintiff of...

Cianciola v. Dittmann

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's request for habeas relief from a conviction for sexual assault of a child is affirmed where defendant's Sixth...

Canto v. Holder

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of the BIA's finding that petitioner is deportable due to his conviction of counterfeiting over two decades ago is denied where:...

Ellison v. Acevedo

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief from a conviction for the first-degree murder of a four-month-old infant and...

Gayton v. McCoy

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law
In plaintiff's suit against prison officials and nurses on behalf of decedent who died while detained at a county jail, district court's judgment is...

Farid v. Ellen

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a prisoner's challenge to a prison's rules regarding contraband and smuggling as applied to a pamphlet he possessed, summary judgment for...

Hayden v. Pataki

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections
In a Due Process and Equal Protection Clause challenge to New York's felon disenfranchisement laws, judgment on the pleadings for defendants is...

Aqua Log, Inc. v. Georgia

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In two in rem admiralty actions seeking to salvage logs lying at the bottom of Georgia's rivers, the district court's denial of the state's motion to...

Fritz v. Charter Township of Comstock

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a town and one of its supervisors, partial grant of defendant's motion for...

Winston v. Kelly

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
District court's denial of habeas relief by a defendant convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and...