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Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Bd. of Regents for the Univ. of Louisiana Sys.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a suit alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on Eleventh Amendment grounds is...

Mendez v. Knowles

Constitutional Law, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not abuse its discretion by granting petitioner's motion for an...

Morongo Band of Mission Indians v. State Water Res. Control Bd.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In an administrative proceeding to revoke a water license, it does not violate the license holder's constitutional right to due process of law for the...

Spielbauer v. County of Santa Clara

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for reinstatement brought by a former deputy public defender who was investigated by his employer for deceptive court conduct, and who...

Akande v. Gounds

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that defendants deprived plaintiff of a constitutionally-protected interest in his employment, summary judgment for defendants on...

Cloaninger v. McDevitt

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a claim against defendant-deputy sheriffs alleging violation of plaintiff's search and seizure rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments...

Christensen v. Park City Mun. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a case involving the enforcement against a visual artist selling his own work of municipal ordinances forbidding any person, with certain...

US v. Gentry

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction for drug and weapons charges is reversed and remanded where: 1) defendant's post-arrest silence was not a proper subject of examination; 2)...

Clark v. Mazgani

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving the eviction of plaintiff-tenant from a rent-controlled apartment, grant of a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)...

American Civil Liberties Union v. Miami-Dade Cty.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Media Law
In a claim contesting the removal of a non-fiction book at a public school for containing factual errors, grant for preliminary injuction in favor of...