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Sherbrooke v. City of Pelican Rapids

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging, inter alia, that defendants-officers violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment by stopping his car...

Jenkins v. Rock Hill Local Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law
In an action against a school district and a school superintendent raising First Amendment retaliation and privacy claims, summary judgment for...

Preserve Shorecliff Homeowners v. City of San Clemente

Constitutional Law, Elections
In case involving challenge to signatures on a referendum petition obtained by a group seeking to have a referendum on an ordinance restricting...

KRL v. Estate of Moore

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a civil rights case arising from a criminal investigation into the removal and disposal of an underground gasoline storage tank located on...

Curry v. Hensiner

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In a suit brought by a child's parents against a school district and principal arising when the principal did not allow the child to "sell" certain...

New York State Bd. of Elections v. Torres

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
New York's system of choosing party nominees for the State Supreme Court, in which political parties select their nominees for Supreme Court Justice...

Hammer v. Ashcroft

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In a prisoner suit alleging that prison officials violated plaintiff's First Amendment and equal protection rights by implementing and enforcing a...

McMahon v. Kindlarski

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. sections 1983 and 1985 alleging that police officers conspired to deny plaintiff's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment,...

Bingue v. Prunchak

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Police officers involved in all high-speed chases are entitled to qualified immunity under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 unless the plaintiff can prove that...

Matsuda v. City & County of Honolulu

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action raising the issue of whether the Constitution imposes any limit on the City of Honolulu's power to repudiate a contract to convey...