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Shakur v. Schriro

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action alleging prison officials violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the Free Exercise Clause, and the Equal...

Doe v. Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation & Parole

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Sentencing
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by an anonymous plaintiff seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from aspects of Pennsylvania's...

Price v. Sery

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging, inter alia, that police officers unconstitutionally used deadly force for which defendant-City was...

Greene v. Solano County Jail

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action brought by a former maximum security prisoner claiming that a jail's policy of prohibiting maximum security prisoners from participating...

Chmielinski v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that termination proceedings for a probation officer violated his procedural due process rights, dismissal for failure to state a...

Parm v. Shumate

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that plaintiffs-recreational fishermen were falsely arrested for trespass when they refused to cease...

Roe v. Crawford

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Remedies
An elective, non-therapeutic abortion does not constitute a serious medical need, and a prison institution's refusal to provide an inmate with access...

Naser Jewelers, Inc. v. City of Concord

Constitutional Law, Media Law
Denial of a preliminary injunction to prohibit the enforcement of a municipal ban on signs which display electronically changeable messages is...

Gagliardi v. Sullivan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that the dissolution of a municipal board for failure to achieve the required state certification...

Amtower v. Photon Dynamics, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, M&A, Securities Law
In action arising out of merger of two companies, judgment for defendants is affirmed over primary claims that: 1) trial court's use of an in limine...