all - Opinion Summaries

County of Dallas v. Wiland

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by constables against a county claiming it terminated their employment without just cause and without a...

Hadley v. The Illinois Dept. of Corrs.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Law
In a class action seeking to enjoin the Illinois Department of Corrections from charging indigent inmates a co-payment for nonemergency medical and...

Mount Royal Joint Venture v. Kempthorne

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving land in the Sweet Grass Hills of Montana, summary judgment for appellees on decision declaring void ab initio appellants' mining...

US v. JG-24, Inc.

Environmental Law, Government Law
In a suit against the owners and operators of two fiberglass manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico to recover the costs of a hazardous-substance...

US v. Reff

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Military Law
A conviction for first degree murder on a government reservation is affirmed where the government sufficiently proved that defendant was within the...

Henning v. O'Leary

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit against a police officer alleging violations of the Fourth Amendment and the right to society and companionship after the...

Watson v. Abington Township

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought against a township, its police department, and police officers and chief involving police's harassment of a...

Petty v. County of Franklin

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case arising from plaintiff-inmate's injuries in a jail fight and the alleged failure of defendants to protect him or...

Chesher v. Neyer

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action lawsuit against a county, county morgue employees, and a private photographer stemming from an "art project" he did at the morgue in...

Hernandez v. City of Sacramento

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Since state laws fully occupy the fields of vehicle forfeiture involving prostitution and drug transactions, areas of statewide concern, they preempt...