all - Opinion Summaries

Hall v. Time Warner, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In case involving a former housekeeper of Marlon Brando's who was named in his will who sued a reporter for trespass and invasion of privacy, denial...

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Abbott

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Insurance Law
In a suit challenging a Texas statute restricting the right of an auto insurer to own and operate auto body shops, judgment rejecting plaintiff's...

Barber v. Overton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit concerning the release of several corrections officers' social security numbers and birth dates to prisoners, summary...

Washington v. Klem

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, state corrections department's restriction on inmates that they possess in...

Walczyk v. Rio

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
On interlocutory appeal in civil rights action arising from reversed conviction, order denying defendants qualified immunity on plaintiffs' federal...

D'Angelo v. School Bd. of Polk County, Fla.

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...

Perryman v. County of Los Angeles

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In suit alleging that the county coroner negligently failed to preserve the bodily remains of plaintiffs' murdered relative, dismissal of complaint is...

Venegas v. County of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary adjudication in defendants' favor is reversed as the doctrine of qualified immunity which applies to federal civil rights actions under 42...

Boim v. Fulton County Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In school speech case involving suspension of a female high school student who wrote a narrative "dream" involving shooting a teacher, summary...

Lopez-Reyes v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of the denial of petitioner's motion to administratively close or stay her removal proceedings is denied where: 1) petitioner did...