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People v. Butler

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction and death sentence for the first degree murder of a fellow jail inmate, while awaiting trial for the murder of two college...

Spears v. Ruth

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought by the family of an individual who died eleven months after being in police custody for public intoxication, denial of a summary...

Ewing v. City of Stockton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging violations of plaintiffs' constitutional rights arising out of the search of their home and the arrest of...

Holder v. Palmer

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus following his conviction for sexual penetration with an uninformed partner...

Howe v. Bank of America N.A.

Banking Law, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In plaintiffs' putative class action suit against defendant and other entities claiming discrimination under the Unruh Civil Rights Act by requiring...

Cooey v. Strickland

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
District court's denial of defendant's request for a stay of execution by lethal injection under Ohio's new protocol where the state eliminated the...

McAfee v. Thurmer

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief from a conviction and life sentence for the first degree murder of a police officer 13 years ago is...

Patterson v. Indiana Newspapers, Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' suit against their former employer alleging employment discrimination on the basis of their religious belief that homosexual conduct is...

Alvarez v. Smith

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case involving whether Illinois law provides a sufficiently speedy opportunity for an individual, whose car or cash police...

Milam v. Dominick's Finder Foods, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In six black produce clerks' racial discrimination suit against their employer alleging that the company classified two white women as produce clerks...