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San Diego Police Offcrs. Ass'n. v. San Diego Employees' Ret. Sys.

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by a police union claiming that a city ordinance that reduced the city's contributions to the employees' retirement fund violated...

People v. Haller

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for criminal threats, stalking, and assault with a deadly weapon is affirmed where defendant's aggregate sentence of 78 years to life does...

State of Missouri v. Metro. St. Louis Water Dist.

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law
District court judgment denying the State's motion to strike defendant's affirmative defenses and to dismiss its counterclaims is affirmed where: 1)...

Green v. Haskell Cty. Bd. of Comm'rs.

Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an Establishment Clause challenge to a Ten Commandments monument on the lawn of a county courthouse, judgment for Defendants is reversed where a...

Gollomp v. Spitzer

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Sanctions
District court judgment dismissing plaintiff's second amended complaint against various state entities and imposing sanctions on his attorneys is...

Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In an appeal from the denial of a motion to recuse a state supreme court justice, where the justice had received campaign contributions in an...

Harrell v. State of Texas

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a dispute involving an order directing prison officials to withdraw money from an inmate trust account, court of appeal's judgment is reversed and...

Sorenson Comms., Inc. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
In a petition for review of an FCC regulation prohibiting contacting telecommunications relay services users for lobbying purposes, the petition is...

Independence News, Inc. v. Charlotte

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In a First Amendment challenge to an adult bookstore zoning ordinance, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed where the ordinance did not ban...

Catholic League for Relig. and Civ. Rts. v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that a city resolution disapproving of the Catholic Church's position on same-sex adoptions violated the...