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Wallace v. Kato

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
The statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim seeking damages for a false arrest in violation of the Fourth Amendment, where the...

Walton v. New York State Dep't of Corr. Servs.

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In case involving recipients of collect calls from prison inmates, dismissal of suit seeking to enjoin defendant from collecting a 57.5% commission on...

Brandt v. Bd. of Educ. of City of Chicago

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a class action suit brought on behalf of 24 eighth graders at a public school after they were disciplined for conducting a protest that they claim...

Ctr for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. v. City of Springboro

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a civil rights case brought by a pro-life public policy and advocacy group and members thereof arising from a police stop and detention, summary...

Boumediene v. Bush

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law
In consolidated habeas corpus cases filed by aliens captured abroad, held as enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, and now...

County of Dallas v. Walton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by a deputy who was not resworn after a new constable took over, the court rules that plaintiff's substantive...

County of Dallas v. Wiland

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by constables against a county claiming it terminated their employment without just cause and without a...

Philip Morris USA v. Williams

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies
A punitive damages award, based in part on a jury's desire to punish a defendant for harming nonparties, amounts to a taking of property from the...

County of Dallas v. Walton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by a deputy who was not resworn after a new constable took over, the court rules that plaintiff's substantive...

County of Dallas v. Wiland

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by constables against a county claiming it terminated their employment without just cause and without a...