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Rockstead v. City of Crystal Lake

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit involving the permanent conversion of plaintiff's farmland to wetlands, dismissal of the takings clause suit against a municipality for...

Reinhart v. Lincoln County

Civil Rights, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action raising a disparate-impact claim under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) against defendants claiming that a new comprehensive land-use plan and...

Christian Heritage Academy v. Oklahoma Secondary Sch. Activities Ass'n

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a private religious school's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming, in pertinent part, that Oklahoma's state-organized school activities...

Kumar v. Superior Court of Sonoma County

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Tax Law
In proceedings arising from an order requiring petitioners-inn operators to comply with legislative subpoenas issued by a city for the production of...

Demps v. San Francisco Housing Auth.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the summary judgment context, a trial judge-s failure to rule on properly presented objections results in their being impliedly overruled, the...

Jennings v. Univ. of N. Carolina

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Sports Law
In a suit by a college athlete alleging sexual harassment by her coach, summary judgment for defendants is reversed on plaintiff's Title IX and 42...

Consejo de Desarrollo Economico de Mexicali, A.C. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, International Law, Water Law
In a dispute over a Bureau of Reclamation project to build a concrete-lined canal to replace an unlined portion of the All-American Canal, an...

US Dep't of State v. Coombs

Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving appellant's challenge to decision setting aside appellee's critical employee evaluation reports based on his mental illness and...

Greenhill v. Spellings

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving negative employment reference from former federal employer to a prospective federal employer, resulting in rescission of an offer of...

Spratt v. Rhode Island

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In suit arising out of a prison's refusal to let an inmate preach to his fellow inmates, summary judgment for the defendants is reversed and remanded...