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Gish v. Thomas

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving an unusual suicide by a prisoner committed in the backseat of a police car, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed as plaintiff...

Role Models Am., Inc. v. Green

Administrative Law, Government Law, Military Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving the disposition of Fort Ritchie under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, the National Historic Preservation Act,...

Lemon v. Green

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Military Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving the disposition of Fort Ritchie under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act, dismissal of...

Gary v. Braddock Cemetery

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Sanctions, Transportation
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by plaintiffs, owners of burial plots, against a cemetery and other defendants alleging their actions...

Phillips v. County of Allegheny

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In an action against various defendants for violations of 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law, arising from a former 911 dispatcher's improper use of...

Hinsley v. Standing Rock Child Protective Servs.

Administrative Law, Family Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) alleging that defendant-agency negligently placed her half-brother in her home without...

Jordan v. Ector County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a county and clerk alleging they fired plaintiff in retaliation for her exercise of her First...

People ex rel Grijalva v. Superior Ct. (United Water Conserv. Dist.)

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In action to recover fire fighting costs for fire that real parties admit starting and that burned two weeks and cost millions to combat, petition for...

Szewczyk v. The Bd. of Fire and Police Comm'rs of the Vill. of Richmond, Illinois

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute arising from the termination of the village police chief, judgment directing the Commissioners to hold a hearing on plaintiff's petition...

Goldstein v. Pataki

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Sports Law
In case involving eminent domain and a proposed stadium for the New Jersey Nets, dismissal of complaint alleging that eminent domain action violates...