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California Family Bioethics Council v. California Inst. for Regenerative Med.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Health Law
In cases challenging the validity of Proposition 71, the stem cell research initiative approved by a substantial majority of the voters, a judgment...

Dyer v. Childress

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case arising out of Tenth Anniversary Edition DVD of the film "Reality Bites," denial of defendants' special motion to strike plaintiff-s lawsuit...

Taus v. Loftus

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a tort and invasion of privacy case brought by the unnamed subject in a scholarly article, which described her apparent recovery of a...

Osborne v. Grussing

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A plaintiff who seeks relief from valid adverse regulatory action on the ground it was unconstitutional retaliation for First Amendment-protected...

Koulta v. Merciez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by a fatal car crash victim's estate against a city and police officers, denial of summary judgment for...

Acevedo-Luis v. Zayas

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging that defendants retaliated against plaintiff because of his political association, judgment limited to...

H and A Land Corp. v. City of Kennedale

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a dispute over the constitutionality of ordinances regulating sexually oriented businesses, a permanent injunction in favor of an off-site adult...

Brown v. Simmons

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case alleging that defendant-superintendent of schools infringed teacher's procedural due process rights by denying him a name-clearing hearing...

US v. Trotter

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
A conviction for intentionally causing damage to a protected computer without authorization is affirmed where the statute of conviction, 18 U.S.C....

Barrows v. Wiley

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit alleging violation of due process after a university placed a vice chancellor on unpaid administrative leave, summary...