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Dunn v. Matatall

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendants-officers violated plaintiff's Fourth Amendment rights by using excessive force when...

Estate of Bennett

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit against defendant-police officers for the shooting death of decedent following gunfire initiated by decedent, judgment in favor of...

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Brunner

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a claim by plaintiff-voting rights organizations claiming that state voting system was deficient and alleging violations of equal protection,...

Pointdexter v. The Bd. of County Comm'rs of the County of Sequoyah

Constitutional Law, Elections, Labor & Employment Law
In an action involving First Amendment rights of political association and speech, summary judgment for the defendants is affirmed where: 1) the...

Cooper v. S.E. Pennsylvania Transp. Auth.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act, alleging defendant undercompensates its bus drivers by failing to fully account for their...

Equity Lifestyle Props., Inc. v. County of San Luis Obispo

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action involving a municipal rent control ordinance, the district court's order dismissing the plaintiff's complaint is affirmed where: 1) the...

Houskins v. Sheahan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, judgment against a county is reversed where: 1) the defendant's failure to include the issue of...

In reTerrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa (Fourth Amendment Challenges)

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, International Law
Judgments of convictions for offenses arising from involvement in an international conspiracy, led by Osama Bin Laden and organized through the al...

In reTerrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, International Law, Sentencing
Judgments of convictions for offenses arising from involvement in an international conspiracy, led by Osama Bin Laden and organized through the al...

Walker v. Epps

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In an Eight Amendment challenge to lethal injection as the method of execution for two death-row inmates, rulings that the applicable statute of...