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State Route 4 Bypass Auth. v. Superior Ct. (Morimoto)

Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In condemnation cases brought by a joint powers agency empowered to acquire property for construction of a highway, writ petitions challenging trial...

Locke v. Karass

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A union, functioning as the exclusive bargaining agent for certain state employees, may, consistent with the First Amendment, charge non-members for...

Sides v. City of Champaign

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit arising out of a detention and prosecution for public indecency, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where:...

People ex rel. Brown v. PuriTec

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
California statutes prohibiting the seller of a water treatment device from making performance or benefit claims that the device affects health or the...

Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. Von Eschenbach

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Holding that the Constitution does not provide terminally ill patients with a right of access to experimental drugs that have passed limited safety is...

King v. E. St. Louis Sch. Dist. 189

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that school district officials had violated a student's rights under the Due Process Clause of the...

Guzman v. Sheahan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against several prison guards and law enforcement officials alleging violation of plaintiff's due process rights as...

Cavel Int'l, Inc. v. Madigan

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, International Trade
In a constitutional challenge to a statute banning the slaughter and export of horsemeat for human consumption by a producer and exporter of...

Martinez Rivera v. Sanchez-Ramos

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit arising out of a shooting death at the hands of Puerto Rico police officers, sua sponte dismissal of plaintiff's...

US v. Riedl

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In proceedings arising after defendant had served her 66-month sentence for offenses including money laundering, denial of her petition for a writ of...