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D'Angelo v. School Bd. of Polk County

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where plaintiff high school principal alleges that defendant school board violated the First Amendment when it terminated him in retaliation...

White v. City of Sparks

Constitutional Law, Government Law
An artist's sale of his original artwork constitutes speech protected under the First Amendment.

Pruett v. Harris County Bail Bond Bd.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
A decision finding that a Texas statute restricting solicitation of potential customers denied bail bondsmen their First Amendment rights is affirmed...

Powers v. Hamilton County Pub. Defender Comm'n

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 class action, alleging that plaintiffs' constitutional rights were violated by the Public Defender Commission's policy or...

Anderson v. Suiters

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In an action brought against a police officer, a local television reporter and the TV station's owner pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and Oklahoma...

Martin v. Stewart

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Gaming Law
Dismissal of federal constitutional challenges to two South Carolina statutes regulating video poker based on abstention under Burford v. Sun Oil Co.,...

San Leandro Teachers Ass'n v. Governing Bd. of the San Leandro Unified Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Order granting peremptory writ of mandate prohibiting defendants from restricting the content of communications by plaintiff-union placed in...

Rodis v. City & County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against San Francisco, its police department, chief, and certain officers arising from plaintiff's arrest, denial of...

Campbell v. Miller

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a city and police officers regarding a strip search of the plaintiff, judgment for one of the...

Klementanovsky v. Gonzales

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of an application for a waiver of inadmissibility is denied where the distinction between deportable criminal aliens...