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Panetti v. Quarterman

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law, Sentencing
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by a prisoner convicted and sentenced to death in a Texas state court is reversed where: 1)...

Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In cases involving school districts that voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely upon race to determine which public schools certain...

Contemporary Servs Corp. v. Staff Pro Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Order granting defendants' special motion to strike the complaint under the anti-SLAPP statute is affirmed over claims that the trial court erred as:...

Simone D. v. Iverson

Constitutional Law, Health Law
Grant of application to acting director of a psychiatric center to administer electroconvulsive therapy to a patient without the patient's consent is...

Forty One News Inc. v. County of Lake

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a county seeking to enjoin enforcement of an adult bookstore regulation, dismissal on grounds of Younger...

Episcopal Church Cases

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In dispute over church property where a local congregation of a general church seeks to disaffiliate itself from that general church and take the...

Andrews v. Cervantes

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action alleging, inter alia, a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment premised on the danger of...

Johnston v. Tampa Sports Auth.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Sports Law
In suit by Tampa Bay Buccaneer football game season ticket holder challenging a policy of conducting limited above-the-waist pat-down searches of all...

Lindsey v. City of Orrick

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against a city alleging plaintiff-public works director was unlawfully dismissed for accusing the city council of...

Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle Co., Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a bank's declaratory judgment action brought against a husband and wife, and their family farm and ranch business located on tribal land, seeking...