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Bismullah v. Gates

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, International Law
On petitions for review brought by eight men detained at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba challenging the determination by a Combatant Status...

In re: Sealed Case

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In Bivens action brought by a former country attache for the D.E.A., against a former State Department Charge d'Affaires and a CIA employee for...

Carcieri v. Norton

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit by the State of Rhode Island against the Department of the Interior over the Department's taking of land into trust for an Indian tribe...

Becker vs. Kroll

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit alleging constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state libel claims after an abandoned disciplinary action against a...

Carrero-Nazario v. Lopez-Bonilla

Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law
In a suit alleging that the mayor of a municipality engaged in unlawful political discrimination against two developers, their development company,...

Sueiro Vazquez v. Torregrosa De La Ros

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit alleging violation of plaintiffs' First Amendment political affiliation and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights, a district court order...

Duckworth v. Saracino

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by female police officers alleging gender discrimination, denial of qualified immunity for defendants is reversed and remanded where the...

Hartsfield v. Colburn

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a suit alleging violation of the Eighth Amendment through deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical needs, judgment in favor of...

Helms v. Zubaty

Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against alleging that defendants violated plaintiff's right to free speech by ejecting her from a county...

Epps v. Watson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In civil rights action brought by plaintiff county employee who was terminated for allowing opponent of her supervisor to place a campaign sign on her...