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Chambers v. Superior Court of San Diego County (San Diego Police Dep't)

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Derivative information, developed by independent investigation after Pitchess disclosure in an earlier case, is not generally subject to the...

Rodriguez v. Secretery for the Dep't of Corr.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In prisoner civil rights action alleging prison officials violated his rights, summary judgment for one defendant, and judgment for the other...

Ponce v. Socorro Indep. Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Student speech that threatens a Columbine-style attack on a school is not protected by the First Amendment, because such speech poses a direct threat...

Graoch Assocs. #33, L.P. v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Human Relations Comm'n

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Landlord Tenant Law
A plaintiff can, in principle, rely on evidence of some instances of disparate impact to show that a landlord violated the Fair Housing Act by...

Moore v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of the County of Leavenworth

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought by the parents of a volunteer fire fighter who was killed when his automobile was struck by one driven by defendant-deputy while...

Weise v. Casper

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
In a Bivens action alleging that defendants and others, acting under color of law and pursuant to White House policy, violated plaintiffs' First and...

Garretson v. Post

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In action for wrongful foreclosure arising from purchase of real property, denial of defendant's anti-SLAPP motion is affirmed as nonjudicial...

Mufied v. Mukasey

Civil Rights, Immigration Law
Petition for review challenging denial of withholding of removal is granted where the BIA considered only whether the petitioner had established that...

Amidon v. Student Ass'n of the State Univ. of N.Y. at Albany

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Defendant Student Association violated the First Amendment by using an advisory student referendum to determine how to allocate funds from a mandatory...

Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar, Inc. v. Kahana

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Corp. Governance
Resolution of an election controversy between two rival factions of a religious congregation cannot be achieved through the application of neutral...