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Kode v. Carlson

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a personal injury action, a ruling for defendant is vacated where the district court did not weigh the substantiality of the evidence presented to...

Garcia-Perez v. Hosp. Metropolitano

Civil Procedure, Sanctions
Dismissal of the case by the district court, acting sua sponte, for lack of prosecution based on plaintiffs' non-compliance with discovery deadlines...

Wilkins v. Gaddy

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force by a correctional officer, a court of appeals' affirmance of dismissal of the complaint is...

Thaler v. Haynes

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter, the court of appeals' reversal of the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed and the matter remanded where...

Mack v. Dillon

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on injuries plaintiff sustained when defendant-officers shot at him as he was fleeing after an armed robbery,...

Grossman v. State of Florida

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Trial court's order summarily denying defendant's third successive motion to vacate his death sentence is affirmed where: 1) summary denial of...

Arnold v. Sec'y. Dep't of Corr.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In the government's appeal from the grant of petitioner's habeas petition, the grant of the petition is affirmed for the reasons stated by the...

Gildernew v. Quarantillo

Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
In an action seeking a declaratory judgment that plaintiff, an Irish national, was entitled to naturalize in the U.S., summary judgment for defendant...

US v. Young

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a tax fraud prosecution, the district court's wage garnishment order in favor of the government and its denial of defendant's motion to proceed in...

US v. Osborne

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's bank robbery sentence is affirmed where the facts of defendant's high-speed car chase following the robbery, which formed the basis for...