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Marion v. Columbia Corr. Inst.

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an equal protection and due process action brought by a prison inmate, district court's dismissal for failure to state a claim is reversed and...

Levesque v. Doocy

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a defamation action against the Fox News Network, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is affirmed where plaintiff did...

Am. Booksellers Found. for Free Expression v. Strickland

Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law
In a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio obscenity statute, the Court of Appeals certified the following questions to the Ohio Supreme Court: 1) Is...

Colwell v. Dept. of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
The dismissal of Plaintiffs' challenge to a Department of Health and Human Services Policy Guidance is affirmed, where Plaintiffs' suit was unripe...

Am. Civil Rights Found. v. Berkeley Unified Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
Trial court's judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where a school board policy aiming to achieve social diversity by using neighborhood...

Croft v. Perry

Constitutional Law, Education Law
In an Establishment Clause challenge to a Texas law providing for a mandatory moment of silence in public schools, summary judgment for Defendant is...

Croft v. Perry

Constitutional Law, Education Law
In an Establishment Clause challenge to a Texas law providing for a mandatory moment of silence in public schools, summary judgment for Defendant is...

Pagan v. Glendale

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
In a First Amendment challenge to Defendant-Village's restriction on commercial speech, summary judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed where the Court of...

In re Lewis

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In an action involving five habeus corpus petitions, trial court order finding that section 2402 (c) of the Code of Regulations on parole hearings is...

Delaware Dept. of Natural Res. & Envt'l. Ctrl. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
Petitioner state agency's petition for review of FERC's approval of an application to operate a natural gas site is dismissed, where Petitioner lacked...