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Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. New York

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
The State's estimated cost of providing children in New York City's public schools with a sound basic education of $1.93 billion, in 2004 dollars, in...

Rosenbaum v. City of New York

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A letter sent by the attorney for plaintiff to an attorney in the New York City Housing Preservation Department does not satisfy General Municipal Law...

Hawkins v. US

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A Court of Federal Claims order holding that plaintiff, a member of a county Volunteer Mounted Posse, was a "public safety officer" who died as a...

Volusia County Sch. Bd. v. Volusia Homes Builders Ass'n

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A ruling, that a school board's recommendation to a county council to increase the school impact fee constituted either the enactment of a rule or the...

Natural Fuel Gas Supply Corp. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law
Defendant's issuance of Standards of Conduct to regulate natural gas pipelines' interactions with their marketing affiliates, and later revision to...

Smith v. City of Fort Myers

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment for city and county in a declaratory judgment action challenging the validity of the city's transfer to the county of its ownership...

Via v. LaGrand

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law
Denial of summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity for one defendant in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against employees and officials of the...

Yale New Haven Hosp. v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
Reversal of defendant's decision that denied Medicare reimbursement claims is vacated as the denial was predicated on a new rule altering the previous...

Cason v. Florida Dep't of Mgmt. Servs.

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
The jurisdictional non-claim provisions of section 194.171 do not apply to a claim by the State challenging a tax assessment as void on the ground...

Buchanan v. State of Maine

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983, ADA and equal protection suit arising out of the treatment of a mentally ill man and his...