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Abbott Laboratories v. Franchise Tax Board

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Tax Law
Order sustaining defendant's demurrer to plaintiff's action for a tax refund is affirmed where writing or reforming Revenue and Taxation Code sec....

Dedrick v. Berry

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a mixed disability discrimination and disability retirement claim, the matter is transferred in its entirety to the Fourth Circuit for lack of...

California Trout v. FERC

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
In a petition for review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's denial of petitioner's motion to intervene in a license renewal proceeding, the...

Zanders v. Swanson

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
District court's dismissal of plaintiffs' preenforcement challenge to a state criminal statute for lack of standing is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs...

Robinson-Reeder v. Am. Coun. on Educ.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a Title VII action alleging that Defendant racially discriminated against Plaintiff in placing her on probation, Plaintiff's appeal is dismissed,...

Consumer Products Research & Design, Inc. v. Jensen

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Intellectual Property
In an action for fraudulent inducement and breach of contract, district court judgment against defendants is affirmed where: 1) defendant's failure to...

Apex Digital, Inc. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts
In an action for breach of contract and other related claims, district court's grant of defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter...

BNSF Rwy. Co. v. O'Dea

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure
In an employment discrimination action, dismissal of the complaint for lack of jurisdiction is reversed where district courts have diversity...

Cloverleaf Realty of N.Y., Inc. v. Town of Wawayanda

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
District court order dismissing a procedural due process claim as precluded by an earlier dismissal of a similar claim by a New York state court for...

Branner v. Regents of the Univ. of California

Civil Procedure
Appeal of a trial court order granting in part and denying in part defendants' special motion to strike plaintiff's race and age discrimination claims...