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Matsuda v. City & County of Honolulu

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action raising the issue of whether the Constitution imposes any limit on the City of Honolulu's power to repudiate a contract to convey...

Stroman Realty, Inc. v. Wercinski

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action involving plaintiff's challenge to attempts by the Commissioner of the Arizona Department of Real Estate to...

Bush v. Strain

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a civil rights action alleging, inter alia, excessive force and conspiracy claims against defendants-law enforcement officers, summary judgment for...

Morris v. City of Chillicothe

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that a police chief, police department, a city, and city council members terminated plaintiff in...

Harris v. Bornhorst

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit raising claims under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983, and for state law malicious prosecution,...

Ziegler v. Aukerman

Civil Rights, Health Law
In a civil rights action filed under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, summary judgment for defendant-police officer is affirmed where, although the district...

Santamaria v. U.S. Attorney Gen.

Civil Rights, Immigration Law
Denial of asylum application and order of removal are vacated where petitioner, a Colombian lawyer and political activist, suffered past persecution...

US v. Sheehan

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of Iraq War protester Cindy Sheehan for demonstrating without a permit on the White House sidewalk is reversed as Sheehan was convicted of...

Nat'l Inst. of Military Justice v. Dep't of Defense

Civil Rights, Government Law, Military Law
In FOIA action seeking records containing the opinions and recommendations of non-governmental lawyers whose advice the U.S. Department of Defense...

Rasul v. Rumsfeld

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In case brought by Guantanamo Bay detainees seeking damages for their alleged illegal detention and torture, dismissal of claims under the...