all - Opinion Summaries

Mayor of the City of N.Y.v. Council of the City of N.Y.

Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Mayor's challenge to validity of two local laws, passed by the City Council over his veto, that give certain fire department employees the status of...

Girot v. Keith

Elections, Government Law
In the matter of a man who sought to be placed on the primary ballot for mayor, which is addressed under the public interest exception to the mootness...

Lane v. City of LaFollette

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by a city's former recreational director against defendants, mayor and officials, arising from plaintiff's...

Flint v. Dennison

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Elections, Government Law
The Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit a public university from imposing a $100 expenditure limit on...

US v. Ratcliff

Criminal Law & Procedure, Elections, Government Law, White Collar Crime
In a prosecution for mail fraud based on alleged activities involving election fraud in Louisiana, dismissal of mail fraud counts based on a...

Pennsylvania Family Inst., Inc. v. Black

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In a case involving the free speech rights of candidates for state judicial office, various provisions of Pennsylvania's Code of Judicial Conduct and...

Cinkus v. Village of Stickney Mun. Officers Electoral Bd.

Elections
Reversal of the respondent's decision that found petitioner ineligible to candidacy because petitioner owed money to the village is reversed where the...

Pascente v. County Officers Electoral Bd. of the County of Cook

Administrative Law, Elections
An order validating the nominating papers of candidate John O'Sullivan over claims that the papers created a basis for confusion as to the office for...

Nguyen v. Superior Ct. (Nguyen)

Civil Procedure, Elections, Government Law
Petition for writ of mandate challenging trial court decision allowing recount of only paper absentee ballots in an election contest over a seat on...

Ass'n of Am. Physicians & Surgeons v. Brewer

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a suit brought against Arizona and officials challenging the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act, an appeal from dismissal for failure to state a...