all - Opinion Summaries

Camp Legal Def. Fund Inc. v. City of Atlanta

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Moratorium on issuance of outdoor festival permits is upheld where, as to all but one provision of the Atlanta Outdoor Festivals Ordinance of 2003,...

California v. US

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Denial of intervention as of right under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) is reversed where health care providers are entitled to intervene in a...

Simpson v. Nickel

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of a prisoner's suit alleging retaliation for a petition for redress of grievances is vacated and remanded where: 1) plaintiff did not need...

Hill v. McDonough

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Dismissal of petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of a three-drug sequence the state of Florida likely would use to execute him by lethal...

Lee County v. Brown

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Construction, Contracts, Education Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment for plaintiffs holding that a county's school impact fee ordinance constituted a facially unconstitutional impairment on construction...

Tanner Advertising Gp., LLC v. Fayette County, Ga.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
First Amendment challenge to a sign ordinance is dismissed where a newly enacted ordinance rendered all but one of the challenges moot and the...

Roth v. King

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Denial of a motion to dismiss plaintiffs-attorneys' Fifth Amendment claims and denial of immunity with respect to claims for injunctive relief are...

U.S. v. Anderson

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Convictions and sentences for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine are affirmed over defendants' claims that: 1) Sixth Amendment and due process...

Shrum v. City of Coweta

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The First Amendment applies to exercises of executive authority no less than it does to the passage of legislation. Partial denial of a police chief's...

In re Henry S.

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
A minor does not have a due process right to a full evidentiary hearing on a section 241.1 determination as to whether to treat the juvenile as a...