all - Opinion Summaries

Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. v. Cox

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
A decision declaring unconstitutional a state law that regulates abortion methods is affirmed where Michigan's law fails to comply with the explicit...

Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Media Law
Order issuing notices of apparent liability against two of petitioner Fox's broadcasts for violating the respondent FCC's indecency regime is vacated...

City of Elsa v. M.A.L.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
The court reaffirms that: 1) "sue and be sued" provisions in city charters do not waive immunity from suit for monetary damages; and 2) governmental...

Jordan v. Mosley

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiff's suit for false arrest and malicious prosecution, partial denial of summary judgment for defendant, plaintiff's niece's husband who is a...

Flint v. Dennison

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Elections, Government Law
The Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit a public university from imposing a $100 expenditure limit on...

Weilburg v. Shapiro

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Heck v. Humphrey does not bar prospective plaintiffs, who have not otherwise successfully challenged their...

DeLeon v. City of Corpus Christi

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
A deferred adjudication order is a conviction for the purposes of Heck v. Humphrey's favorable termination rule. In an action brought seeking damages...

Carr v. Kamins

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Denial of motions to vacate a judgment quieting title to property and for reconsideration is reversed where the judgment was obtained in violation of...

Rossi v. Gemma

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Construction, Remedies
In an 18 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging that the Rhode Island Mechanics' Lien Law violated due process: 1) dismissal of claims for injunctive and...