all - Opinion Summaries

Bettencourt v. City and County of San Francisco

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of petition for writ of mandate and for injunctive relief filed by plaintiff police officers seeking dismissal of disciplinary proceedings is...

Breslin v. City and County of San Francisco

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of petition for writ of mandate and for injunctive relief filed by plaintiff police officers seeking dismissal of police disciplinary charges...

Wolf v. CIA

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendant, in FOIA action seeking records related to Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a late, former Colombian politician, is reversed to...

Stanley v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit challenging the Attorney General's removal of plaintiff from her position as a United States Trustee as a violation of the separation of...

Fisher v. City of San Jose

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging constitutional violations stemming from a twelve-hour standoff at plaintiff's apartment between him and...

Conlon v. US

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Summary judgment against plaintiff in a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) action involving his alleged improper arrest and imprisonment is affirmed where...

Spielbauer v. Santa Clara County

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where plaintiff was dismissed by his employer, defendant county, for engaging in conduct unbecoming a county employee by making deceptive...

Dahler v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of suit to recover the value of items lost during a prison shakedown is reversed where amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act...

US, ex rel., Atkinson v. Pa. Shipbuilding Co.

Banking Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Military Law
Dismissal of a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) alleging that defendants-companies conspired to, and did, defraud the United States...

Paulson v. City of San Diego

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Appeals of an order to enforce a 1991 injunction under California constitutional authority are dismissed as moot, and the matter is remanded for...