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Monks v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes

Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a real property matter related to an ordinance passed by defendant-city imposing a moratorium on construction of new homes in vicinity where...

Levasseur v. U.S. Postal Serv.

Communications Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case involving the so-called "postal matter exception" to the Federal Tort Claims Act, decision that postal-matter exception applies to...

Ricci v. Patrick

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
In a case in which the federal district court reopened a consent decree and then required certain steps as to the residents of development center for...

Estate of Marion Landers v. Leavitt

Class Actions, Government Benefits, Government Law, Insurance Law
In a putative class action brought by Medicare participants challenging denial of coverage for post-hospitalization care in skilled nursing...

Miller v. Clinton County

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a county employee alleging unlawful termination, denial of a motion to dismiss is vacated and cause remanded for dismissal where: 1)...

Ohio Republican Party v. Sec'y of State Jennifer Brunner

Civil Rights, Elections, Government Law
Ohio Secretary of State's emergency motion to stay a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) restraining enforcement of Advisory 2008-24, which advised...

SN Sands Corp. v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
Order directing city to award contract to plaintiff trucking company is affirmed where: 1) the anticipated cost of a proposed contract must be based...

Dominguez v. Hendley

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a city and a police officer involved in investigating plaintiff for a sex crime for which he was later...

Golden Gate Rest. Ass'n v. City and County of San Francisco

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, ERISA, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to municipally mandated employer health care spending requirements, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed and the case remanded...

Perez v. City of Los Angeles

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In proceedings brought after plaintiff-police officer was terminated based on misconduct, partial grant of her petition for a writ of administrative...