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Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

Hollingsworth v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law
In defendant-intervenors' application for a stay of an order of the district court in the California Proposition 8 trial permitting the trial to be...

Ohton v. California State Univ. of San Diego

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of a petition for a writ of mandate seeking leave to file a civil action for damages against a university for retaliation is reversed as the...

Full Throttle Films, Inc. v. Nat'l Mobile Television, Inc.

Asset Forfeiture, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Debt Collection, Judgement Enforcement
In ex parte proceedings, arising after plaintiff obtained a writ of attachment and levied on certain deposit accounts of defendant, a grant of...

LaFary v. Rogers Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer for age and sex discrimination and retaliation after she was let go for taking more than six months of...

Carr v. Tillery

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In an attorney-plaintiff's RICO suit against his former law partners involving a dispute over the division of legal fees in cases handled by the law...

U.S. Philips Corp. v. KBC Bank N.V.

Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Intellectual Property, Judgement Enforcement, Patent
In plaintiff's appeal from the district court's order granting movant-bank's motion to modify a preliminary injunction freezing the assets of the...

Nebraska Pub. Power Dist. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities
In an action for a breach of contract against the United States over a dispute involving the interaction between a provision of the Nuclear Waste...

Lawson v. Sup. Ct.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Inmate's petition for a writ of mandate seeking review of trial court's ruling sustaining demurrers to several of her and her infant daughter's causes...