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Jennings v. Pare

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against police officers for excessive force and battery, post-verdict judgment as a matter of law for one of the officers on grounds of...

Edwards v. Snyder

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit alleging deliberate indifference to a prisoner's injuries and medical negligence, dismissal of the prisoner's complaint is reversed and the...

Hill v. Kemp

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Tax Law
In an action brought by abortion rights supporters claiming that Oklahoma's statutory scheme for specialty motor vehicle license plates is...

Ex parte Blue

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law, Sentencing
A subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus in a capital case raising an Atkins claim is dismissed as an abuse of the writ where: 1) whether...

US v. Salinas

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is affirmed where: 1) since defendant was not read Miranda warnings after he was...

US v. Kukafka

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law
Defendant's conviction and sentence for willful failure to pay his support obligation is affirmed over claims that: 1) the Child Support Recovery Act...

Petty v. County of Franklin, Ohio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by former inmate who sustained serious injury to his jaw during a fight with other inmates, alleging county...

Aquilar-Avellaveda v. Terrell

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the context of prisoner Bivens complaints, only in rare cases will a district court be able to conclude from the face of a complaint that a...

California Statewide Cmtys. Dev. Auth. v. All Persons Interested in the Matter of the Validity of a Purchase Agreement

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Tax Law
In the context of a case involving bond financing agreements between a public entity and religiously affiliated schools assumed to be "pervasively...

Hudson Sav. Bank v. US

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an interpleader action brought by a bank to determine the proper disbursement of a foreclosure surplus fund encumbered by tax liens, dismissal is...