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St. John's United Church of Christ v. City of Chicago

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In a challenge to renovation plans for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, denial of a church's motion for a preliminary restraining order...

Zarnow v. City of Wichita Falls

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging violation of plaintiff's constitutional rights as a result of a search for weapons, ammunition and explosive...

State of Texas v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Gaming Law, Government Law, Indian Law
In a suit by a state challenging the Department of the Interior's notice-and-comment regulations governing states' assertion of their sovereign...

Nilsson v. City of Mesa

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging discrimination and violation of the Constitution and state laws relating to a denial of employment by a city police department,...

Burella v. City of Philadelphia

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
In a due process and equal protection suit against police officers resulting from the shooting of a woman by her police-officer husband, summary...

FreeEats.com, Inc. v. State of IN

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit seeking to prevent Indiana from enforcing its statute prohibiting the use of automatic dialing machines to send prerecorded messages, denial...

Batt v. San Francisco

Class Actions, Government Law, Tax Law
In case involving claims for refund of a tax plaintiff alleged was erroneously collected from a class she proposed to represent, sustaining of...

Baccouche v. Blankenship

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
While defendant's easement for equine use is accessory to use of his residential property, and the easement is valid, applicable zoning ordinances...

Ass'n for L.A. Dep. Sheriffs v. County of L.A.

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Trial court's determination that defendant county has managerial power to force peace officer employees to use excess deferred vacation time in order...

Michael Simon Design, Inc. v. US

Administrative Law, Government Law, International Trade
In a suit over the classification of certain imported textile goods, summary judgment for plaintiff-importer is affirmed where the goods' utilitarian...