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Dougherty v. City of Covina

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a Section 1983 action involving a Monell claim and arising from the illegal seizure of evidence of child pornography from the plaintiff's home...

Barrese v. Murray

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Family Law
In a stylized Marvin v. Marvin dispute involving the trial court's authority to hear and determine a motion for a new trial on remand, judgment of the...

Cybersource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute involving a method and system for detecting online credit card fraud, judgment of the district court is affirmed where the court...

In re C.F.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Juvenile Law
In a dispute arising from a motion challenging a child abuse report submitted in support of a dependency petition against mother, judgment of the...

Voices of the Wetlands v. State Water Resources Control Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Public Utilities, Remedies, Water Law
In a dispute arising from an administrative mandamus proceeding challenging defendant's issuance of a cooling water intake permit to...

In Defense of Animals v. US Department of the Interior

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law
In dispute involving the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, 16 U.S.C. section 1331 et seq., and the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C....

Howard v. Criminal Information Services, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law
In a consolidate dispute involving the scope of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), 18 U.S.C. sections 2721-2725, judgments of the district...

Briscoe v. City of New Haven

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute involving a disparate-impact challenge to defendant's promotion practices and where the plaintiff, an African-American firefighter for...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Kirtsaeng

Evidence, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law
In a copyright infringement dispute involving the sale of foreign edition textbooks on eBay and the scope of the first sale doctrine, 17 U.S.C....

Goodrich v. Long Island Rail Road Co.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Federal Employers' Liability Act dispute, 45 U.S.C. section 51 et seq., arising from an action for negligent infliction of emotional distress and...