all - Opinion Summaries

Cardoso v. Calbone

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In an inmate's suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 seeking damages arising from a disciplinary proceeding and alleging that defendants abridged...

Banks v. US

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
The Fourth Amendment permits compulsory DNA testing of plaintiffs, non-violent felony offenders subject to the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act,...

Danso v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, International Law
Equal protection does not prohibit IJs or the BIA from refusing to give effect to an expungement under England's Rehabilitation of Offenders Act...

Marco Outdoor Adver., Inc. v. Reg'l Transit Auth.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that a transit authority deprived plaintiff-advertising company of property without due process of law...

Napleton v. The Village of Hinsdale

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action to invalidate certain amendments to the zoning code which changed the permitted uses available to plaintiff's property, dismissal of...

People v. Caballes

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the matter of a defendant found guilty of cannabis trafficking after a drug sniffing dog alerted officers to defendant's trunk during a routine...

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit regarding information requested from the FBI by Puerto Rico pertaining to criminal investigations of FBI employees, judgment that the FBI...

Spencer v. Staton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 arising from plaintiff's arrest, summary judgment for defendants-sheriff and detectives...

New Directions Treatment Servs. v. City of Reading

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law
In a methadone clinic's and patients' facial and as-applied challenge to a Pennsylvania statute that facially singles out methadone clinics and gave...

Davenport v. Washington Educ. Ass'n

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A state does not violate the First Amendment by requiring its public-sector unions to receive affirmative authorization from a non-member before...