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Gillmor v. Thomas

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute between several landowners and a Utah county and its zoning regime alleging that their administration of county's zoning ordinances...

Dyer v. Lee

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In civil rights suit alleging use of excessive force during arrest, summary judgment for defendants under Heck v. Humphrey 512 U.S. 485 (1994) is...

People v. Moss

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Motion to suppress evidence that was seized during a pat-down search concomitant to a vehicle search performed during a lawful traffic stop is denied...

People v. Whitfield

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Dismissal of defendant's second-stage postconviction petition is reversed where defendant established that his constitutional rights were violated...

US v. Voelker

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Sentencing
Special conditions, which a district court imposed on defendant's lifetime term of supervised release after he pled guilty to possessing child...

Poolman v. City of Grafton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by police officer who was terminated for misconduct, setting forth due process and state law claims,...

Saberi v. Commodity Futures Trading Comm'n

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Sanctions, Securities Law
In a matter arising from circumstances where petitioner was found to have intentionally violated a speculative position limit rule of the Chicago...

Taylor v. Crawford

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A district court's judgment, holding that Missouri's lethal injection protocol for imposing a death sentence is unconstitutional, is reversed as the...

Erickson v. Pardus

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging his constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment were violated by prison...

Sole v. Wyner

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
In the context of attorney's fee awards in private actions brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and other specified measures designed to secure civil...