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Indiana Right to Life, Inc. v. Shepard

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit alleging that two canons of the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct violate the plaintiffs' rights under the First Amendment, the decision of...

Vose v. Kliment

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's constitutional right to free speech by dismissing him from a police department after he...

Hughes v. Stottlemyre

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by a former sergeant with the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) who was demoted and transferred,...

Morrison v. Bd. of Educ. of Boyd County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In an action brought against a board of education by Christian student at a county high school claiming that speech codes prevented students in the...

Peterson v. Baker

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving a hostile encounter between a teacher and her student where the teacher allegedly grabbed and squeezed the student's neck, summary...

Siebert v. Allen

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Denial of Emergency Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Stay Execution in section 1983 suit challenging the constitutionality of Alabama's lethal...

Mohammad Hussain v. Keisler

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of an order of voluntary departure is denied where: 1) petitioner filed an asylum application but later withdrew it in exchange...

Reyes-Canada v. Rey-Hernandez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against Puerto Rico government officials alleging political discrimination in violation of the first amendment, judgment for plaintiffs is...

Connection Distrib. Co. v. Keisler

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Media Law
The recordkeeping requirements of 18 U.S.C. section 2257, placed upon producers of images of "actual sexually explicit conduct", are facially...

Nichols v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of the County of La Plata

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought against a county board of commissioners alleging they violated plaintiffs' substantive and procedural due process rights by not...