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Haywood v. Drown

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Correction Law section 24, depriving New York courts of jurisdiction under state or federal law to entertain civil actions seeking money damages...

Tabbaa v. Chertoff

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case where five U.S. citizens and practicing Muslims with no criminal records were searched and detained at the U.S.-Canada border, upon...

Motorola Credit Corp. v. Uzan

Banking Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In case involving misrepresentations by Turkish family seeking financing for a Turkish telecommunications business to swindle plaintiffs of billions,...

Ponce v. Socorro Indep. Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Student speech that threatens a Columbine-style attack on a school is not protected by the First Amendment, because such speech poses a direct threat...

Garretson v. Post

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In action for wrongful foreclosure arising from purchase of real property, denial of defendant's anti-SLAPP motion is affirmed as nonjudicial...

Amidon v. Student Ass'n of the State Univ. of N.Y. at Albany

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Defendant Student Association violated the First Amendment by using an advisory student referendum to determine how to allocate funds from a mandatory...

Fisher v. City of San Jose

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming constitutional violations stemming from a twelve-hour standoff at plaintiff's apartment between him and a...

Property Clerk of the Police Dep't of the City of New York v. Harris

Administrative Law, Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
The N.Y.P.D. is not required to prove at a post-seizure retention hearing that the co-owner of a seized vehicle is not an "innocent owner" when trying...

Al-Haramain Islamic Found. v. Bush

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law, International Law, Military Law
In a suit brought by a designated terrorist organization and two of its attorneys against President Bush, other agencies, and officials, arising from...

Doe v. Bredesen

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification, and Tracking Act of 2004 and the Tennessee Serious and Violent...