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Greater Heights Acad. v. Zelman

Constitutional Law, Education Law
In a section 1983 Fourteenth Amendment action filed by two community schools against public officials concerning a denial of state educational...

People v. Carpenter

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In consolidated cases arising from instances where defendants had vehicle air bag compartments which contained something other than air bags and one...

Morales-Tanon v. Puerto Rico Elec. Power Auth.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action raising political discrimination and due process claims against an employer, grant of employer's motion to dismiss is affirmed where the...

Green v. City of Raleigh

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit challenging the constitutionality of city ordinances requiring those who wish to picket on public ways to provide the city with prior notice...

Lindquist v. City of Pasadena

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims arising from defendant-city's refusal to grant them a license to operate a used car dealership is reversed and...

Baze v. Rees

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Kentucky's lethal injection protocol used as its method of execution does not violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments....

US v. Quaintance

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In interlocutory appeals from denial of defendants' motions to dismiss an indictment for conspiracy to possess and possession of marijuana with intent...

Duncan's Point Lot Owners Ass'n Inc. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
Petition for review of an FERC decision that the grant of an easement for a wastewater discharge pipe and permission to build a seawall violated the...

Borden v. Sch. Dist. of the Township of E. Brunswick

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Sports Law
In an action instituted by a football coach alleging that a school district's policy, prohibiting faculty participation in student-initiated prayer,...

MeadWestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Dep't of Revenue

Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, M&A, Tax Law
In a case raising the issue of whether Illinois constitutionally taxed an apportioned share of the capital gain realized by Mead, an out-of-state...