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Bismullah v. Gates

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, International Law
On petitions for review brought by eight men detained at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba challenging the determination by a Combatant Status...

Sec'y of Labor v. Nat'l Cement Co. of Cal., Inc.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Petition for review of decision of respondent commission reversing ALJ, who had upheld the jurisdiction of petitioner to issue a citation to...

Transmission Agency of N. Cal. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
Petition for review challenging orders requiring the City of Vernon, California to issue refunds to the California Independent System Operator...

In re: Sealed Case

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In Bivens action brought by a former country attache for the D.E.A., against a former State Department Charge d'Affaires and a CIA employee for...

Wis. Pub. Power Inc v. FERC

Administrative Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
Petitions for review challenging respondent's orders accepting proposed tariffs affecting wholesale power markets are denied as to two groups of...

Carcieri v. Norton

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit by the State of Rhode Island against the Department of the Interior over the Department's taking of land into trust for an Indian tribe...

Poland v. Chertoff

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a former government employee alleging age discrimination, retaliation and constructive discharge, judgment for plaintiff on the...

City of Dinuba v. County of Tulare

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Tax Law
In an action by the City of Dinuba Redevelopment Agency to recover misallocated tax revenue to which it was statutorily entitled, section 860.2 of the...

Carrero-Nazario v. Lopez-Bonilla

Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law
In a suit alleging that the mayor of a municipality engaged in unlawful political discrimination against two developers, their development company,...

Sueiro Vazquez v. Torregrosa De La Ros

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit alleging violation of plaintiffs' First Amendment political affiliation and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights, a district court order...