all - Opinion Summaries

Savory v. Lyons

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging that the government's refusal to grant access to the physical evidence underlying plaintiff's...

Veitch v. England

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In case where plaintiff, a former Navy Chaplain with conservative evangelical Protestant religious beliefs, alleged that he had been constructively...

Mohamed v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In an as-applied constitutional challenge to the REAL ID Act brought by petitioner, a mentally-ill Somalian illegal alien convicted in the U.S. of...

Ross v. Kish

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Denial of special motion to strike, under the anti-SLAPP statute, a cause of action for malicious prosecution filed against defendant by plaintiff,...

Lynd v. Terry

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Denial of habeas petition of death row inmate is affirmed over claims that petitioner was denied the right to: 1) assistance from necessary and...

Tibbs v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Summary judgment for city and police officer in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging violation of plaintiff's Fourth Amendment rights is affirmed...

Entm't Software Ass'n v. Blagojevich

Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law
Judgment for plaintiffs and grant of a permanent injunction prohibiting the enforcement of the Illinois Sexually Explicit Video Game Law is affirmed...

Roberts v. Ward

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case arising from plaintiffs' termination from employment for failing to comply with a state Department of Park's dress code, dismissal of claims...

Mohamed v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied is denied where: 1) petitioner's as-applied constitutional...