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Smith v. Ozmint

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action against prison administrators under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) for forcibly shaving plaintiff's...

Bryant v. Jones

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1981 action challenging a county's alleged plan to replace white county managers with African-Americans, denial of qualified...

Northwest Louisiana Fish & Game Preserve Comm'n v. U.S.

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Court of Federal Claims' dismissal of plaintiff's Fifth Amendment taking claim is affirmed where it correctly determined that plaintiff's property...

Merced v. Kasson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action under the Texas Religious Freedom and Restoration Act challenging an ordinance preventing the keeping and slaughter of four-legged...

Barnes v. City of Omaha

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment termination dispute, district court judgment is affirmed where: 1) the Elkhorn collective bargaining agreement and not the Omaha...

Walker v. Prince George's Cty.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant-officer wrongfully seized plaintiff's wolf, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed...

Valentino v. Village of South Chicago Heights

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for First Amendment retaliation and retaliatory discharge, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where: 1) plaintiff established a...

Biliski v. Red Clay Consolidated Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment termination action alleging that defendant violated plaintiff's procedural due process rights in terminating his employment, district...

Indiana Protection and Advocacy Serv. v. Indiana Family and Social Serv. Admin.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
In an action challenging provisions of the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act, district court judgment is vacated for...

Young America's Found. v. Gates

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Military Law
In an action seeking to compel the Secretary of Defense to withhold federal funds from a university that allegedly denied military recruiters equal...