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Holmes v. State of Utah

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action raising Title VII claims of sexual harassment and sexually hostile work environment against plaintiffs' employer, a state agency, summary...

Coral Constr. v. City & County of San Francisco

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Contracts, Government Law
A decision striking down a San Francisco ordinance calling for race- and gender-conscious remedies to ameliorate the effects of past discrimination in...

Rendell v. Rumsfeld

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Military Law
In Pennsylvania officials' challenge to the legality of recommendations made by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to deactivate the 111th Fighter...

Summum v. Pleasant Grove City

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a religious organization against a city and officials alleging a violation of its First Amendment rights,...

Summum v. Duchesne City

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit brought by a religious organization against a city and council members for alleged violations of its First Amendment free speech rights in...

Amber-Messick v. US

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by the mother of a fourteen-year old "apprentice firefighter" with a fire department following his death in a traffic accident, a...

Zuni Pub. Sch. Dist. v. Dep't of Educ.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law
The federal Impact Aid Act sets forth a method that the Secretary of Education is to use when determining whether a state's public school funding...

Watters v. Wachovia Bank, N.A.

Banking Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A national bank's mortgage business, whether conducted by the bank itself or through the bank's operating subsidiary, is subject to Office of the...

Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians v. Ryan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Indian Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Native American tribe's suit for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the Maine Human Rights Commission from hearing an employment...

Aroostook Band of Micmacs v. Ryan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Indian Law, Labor & Employment Law
A magistrate judge's determination that federal law prevents an agency of the state of Maine from enforcing state employment discrimination laws...