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Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Coalition v. Kempthorne

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
In case involving question of whether the Alabama sturgeon is an endangered species, summary judgment for defendant Fish and Wildlife Service is...

Imhotep-Nguzo Saba Charter Sch. v. Dep't of Educ.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Denial of applications for new charter schools are affirmed where: 1) a school board policy which looked to the academic and financial success of the...

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation v. Wagnon

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Indian Law
On remand from the United States Supreme Court of an Indian nation's action against Kansas state officials for an order requiring that the state...

DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Hurst

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Petition for writ of certiorari is granted, and denial of motion for dismissal in an asbestos claim is quashed, where the application of the Asbestos...

Redwood v. Dobson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Sanctions
Summary judgment for defendants in a suit under 42 U.S.C. sections 1983 and 1985 alleging violation of the First Amendment and conspiracy to maintain...

Mannoia v. Farrow

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendant-detective in a suit brought by the suspect in a child abduction case alleging violation of the Fourth Amendment in the...

Buser v. Raymond

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Health Law
In an action alleging that a state board's practice of using an absentee judge during physician disciplinary hearings violated plaintiff's due process...

Myron v. Terhune

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A district court's sua sponte dismissal of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 prison condition claims is affirmed where: 1) classification of...

Livermore v. Lubelan

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a mother claiming excessive force by agents in the shooting death of her son during an armed standoff, denial of defendants'...

Morales-Izquierdo v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
A previously removed alien who reenters the country illegally is not entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge to determine whether to...