all - Opinion Summaries

Green v. Bd of County Comm'rs

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment for defendants in a drug-lab technician/detention officer's employment-related 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state-law action is...

In Re: County of Erie

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence
Order compelling production of emails and other documents claimed to be protected under attorney-client privilege, in case involving class of arrested...

US v. Campbell

Constitutional Law, Sentencing
The rule in U.S. v. Jones, 899 F.2d 1097 (11th Cir. 1990), that after imposing sentence, the district court should elicit fully-articulated objections...

Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Granholm

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Remedies
In a challenge to a statewide ballot initiative which amended the Michigan Constitution to prohibit discrimination or preferential treatment based on...

Madison v. Commonwealth of VA

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In case involving state prisoner's claim that his requests for kosher meals were denied in violation of section 3 of the Religious Land Use and...

Lovelace v. Lee

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary judgment for defendants -- in case alleging violations of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Religious Land Use and...

Hallco Texas, Inc. v. McMullen County

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action claiming that a county-s denial of a variance from an ordinance prohibiting the location of landfills within three miles of a...

Arrington v. US

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendants, in case seeking relief under the Federal Tort Claims Act and 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for alleged police brutality, is...

People v. Galland

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Denial of motions to quash and traverse a search warrant and to suppress evidence seized during the execution of that warrant -- in case where...

People v. Jordan

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of attempted second degree robbery, finding of priors for forgery and second degree robbery, and 10-year sentence, is affirmed over claims...