all - Opinion Summaries

Mikeska v. City of Galveston

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
Summary judgment for defendant-city on property owners' suit arising from the city's refusal to grant permits for reconnection of plaintiffs' homes to...

Curay-Cramer v. Ursuline Acad. of Wilmington

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
In a case involving the firing of a private Catholic school teacher after she signed her name to a pro-choice advertisement in a newspaper, grant of...

Independence Park Apartments v. US

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
An award for plaintiffs, owners of rental property, in a takings case is reversed where the trial court erred in declining to consider the effects of...

Spencer v. Bouchard

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary judgment for defendants, officials within a sheriff's office, on civil rights claims brought by a prisoner under the First, Fourth, Eighth,...

People v. Brown

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Elder Law
Conviction of aggravated battery and assault, and finding of great bodily injury is affirmed over claim that verdicts of acquittal for elder abuse and...

Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana of Boca Raton, Inc. v. Broward County

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Judgment in favor of defendant county, finding that defendant did not violate section 2(b)(1) of the RLUIPA by denying plaintiff church a zoning...

US v. Arbolaez

Asset Forfeiture, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Sentence and order of forfeiture, after conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, and corrupt alteration, destruction,...

Jones v. Hinsley

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Dismissal of habeas corpus petition is affirmed where the petition was untimely since the time period during which petitioner could, but did not, file...

Hydrick v. Hunter

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
Denial of a motion to dismiss a class action alleging constitutional violations brought by persons civilly committed and awaiting commitment in a...

Camuglia v. City of Albuquerque

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment rejecting plaintiff's claims under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 that he was denied substantive and procedural due process when his...