all - Opinion Summaries

Neilson v. City of Cal. City

Administrative Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Judgments finding amendments to defendants' redevelopment plan, resulting in the building of an automobile test track facility on desert land, to be...

Colonial Pipeline Co. v. Morgan

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Tax Law
In an Equal Protection, Commerce Clause, and Supremacy Clause constitutional challenge to Tennessee's statutory scheme for classifying real and...

McNamara v. City of Rittman

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In a case involving a federal takings claim arising from defendant-city's operation of water wells that allegedly caused damage to plaintiffs, summary...

N. Contracting, Inc. v. State of Illinois

Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law, Transportation
Summary judgment for defendant-state in a suit alleging that a program designed to increase the participation of socially and economically...

Lee v. Pine Bluff Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims against a school district and a school's band director arising from the death of her son while...

Trackwell v. US Gov't

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Military Law
In a pro se action alleging that the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court had repeatedly and improperly withheld from Justice Stephen Breyer an...

Padgett v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Military Law
In the context of claims for service-connected disability benefits, where a veteran dies after his case is submitted for decision, but before the...

Vives v. Fajardo

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment for the Puerto Rico Secretary of Education in a suit alleging retaliation in violation of the Rehabilitation Act is affirmed where...

City of Port Hueneme v. Oxnard Harbor Dist.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
Sustaining of demurrers without leave to amend, in case challenging defendant harbor district's acquisition of land without defendant city's prior...

Granda v. City of St. Louis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law, Government Law, Sanctions
Summary judgment for the city of St. Louis in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action is affirmed where a judicial order incarcerating plaintiff for a...