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Andujar v. Rodriguez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In suit alleging defendant paramedics acted with deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical needs arising after plaintiff jumped from a...

Menkes v. Dep't Homeland Sec.

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Constitutional Law, Contracts
In case involving ship pilot who sued the Coast Guard after it refused to hire him permanently as an independent pilot unless he rejoined the St....

Vasquez v. Los Angeles County

Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a civil rights action alleging defendants, LA county and members of the board of supervisors, violated the Establishment Clause of the First...

Bach v. First Union Nat'l Bank

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Debt Collection, Remedies
In an appeal arising in circumstances in which defendant-bank had been found after a jury trial to have breached certain provisions of the Fair Credit...

Mitchell v. McNeil

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action involving a claim that a city, agencies, and police officers violated plaintiff's substantive due process rights when they permitted a...

Kronemyer v. Internet Movie Data Base, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law
In a dispute with defendant website IMDb, plaintiff claimed he was executive producer of motion pictures "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Wishcraft"...

Minch v. City of Chicago

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a due process challenge to a fire department's mandatory retirement policy, dismissal of the claim is affirmed where the plaintiffs did not have a...

Beth-El All Nations Church v. City of Chicago

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Tax Law
In a suit challenging a tax deed obtained by a municipality on property occupied by a church, a preliminary injunction in favor of the church is...

Kahle v. Gonzales

Constitutional Law, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law
Dismissal of a complaint brought by the builders of an "Internet library" is affirmed where Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), foreclosed their...

Lewis v. Jacks

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of prisoner's federal equal protection and retaliation claims, and state law claims, is affirmed as: 1) telling admittedly noisy inmates to...