all - Opinion Summaries

Missouri Public Entity Risk Mgmt. Fund v. Investors Ins. Co. of Am.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Government Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for an insured, a statutorily-created corporate body that provides liability insurance coverage for a state's public officials and...

Gomes v. Wood

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising out of a child protection caseworker's removal of a child from...

Walker v. City of Orem

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of qualified immunity to specific officer-defendants in a case arising out of a police shooting and subsequent detention of witnesses to the...

Tsosie v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
Dismissal of a suit against the U.S. under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) arising from the death of plaintiff's wife, a member of the Navajo...

League of United Latin Am. Citizens v. Perry

Elections, Government Law
In the context of challenges to Texas' new congressional districting map, Texas' redrawing of a district's lines amounted to vote dilution violative...

Sanchez-LLamas v. Oregon

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, International Law
In the context of detained foreign nationals, even assuming that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations creates judicially enforceable rights,...

City of Santa Monica v. Gonzalez

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Sentencing
Orders appointing a receiver, denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration, and granting the receiver's application to take specified actions are...

Bob Parrett Constr., Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought by plaintiff seeking tort and breach of contract damages arising out of a kickback scheme, defendant's petition for writ of mandate,...

Drago v. Jenne

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendants and denial of plaintiff's motion to amend the judgment in a Family Medical Leave Act, Age Discrimination in Employment...

Burke v. Johnston

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Dismissal of prisoner's 42 U.S.C. 1983 for violation of the Eighth Amendment is reversed where: 1) Rooker-Feldman did not create a jurisdictional bar...