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Family Winemakers of Ca. v. Jenkins

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action by the plaintiffs, a group of California winemakers and Massachusetts residents, challenging Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 138 which establishes...

Clouthier v. Contra Costa

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that a mental health specialist, two sheriff's deputies, and a county violated the Fourteenth Amendment...

Crowe v. San Diego

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on defendants' investigation and prosecution of plaintiffs-teenagers for a crime of which they were innocent...

Am. Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Grayson County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action by the ACLU against a county challenging a display of the Ten Commandments in a County Fiscal Court, district court's finding that the...

Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

Elliot-Park v. Manglona

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on officers' alleged failure to investigate a crime or arrest the alleged perpetrator because of the race of...

Mattos v. Agarano

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on defendant-officers' use of a Taser on plaintiff, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity...

Guilmette v. Howes

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In habeas proceedings brought by a defendant convicted of first-degree home invasion claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, grant of a...

Morrison v. New York

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on plaintiff's detention at a hospital based on a finding by hospital staff that there was reasonable cause...