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Couture v. Bd. of Educ. of the Albuquerque Pub. Sch.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit involving plaintiff's young child who suffers from severe emotional and mental health problems, challenging a...

Horina v. City of Granite City

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
In a civil rights suit alleging that plaintiff's First Amendment rights were violated by city ordinances regulating the distribution of handbills,...

Baude v. Heath

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
In a commerce-clause challenge to Indiana's regulations on direct wine shipments, an injunction against enforcement of the contested provisions is...

Lukovsky v. City and County of San Francisco

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In an action against San Francisco, its Municipal Transportation Agency (MUNI), and various individual defendants for race and national origin...

Habhab v. Hon

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Transportation
In a towing and car repair operator's civil rights suit against several Iowa state patrol troopers claiming violations of equal protection, as well as...

Muhammad v. McCarrell

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against a Supermax Unit and several of its officers raising a tort claim for battery and alleging that...

Iko v. Raley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a survival and wrongful death action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 following inmate's death after being forcibly removed from his cell...

Briscoe v. Klaus

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an inmate's suit alleging violations of constitutional rights by corrections officers, order of dismissal is vacated and remanded where, when the...

Lebanon Farms Disposal, Inc. v. County of Lebanon

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
In a suit challenging county waste-management ordinances as unconstitutional, partial summary judgment for plaintiff, declaration that the ordinances...

Vondrak v. City of Las Cruces

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against defendants-officers and city claiming illegal arrest, excessive force, inadequate medical...