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Thornton v. Snyder

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiff-prisoner's appeal of his 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights claims, grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiff's cell...

Delgado v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a claim involving the existence of federal subject-matter jurisdiction in a challenge to agency decisions under the Aviation and Transportation...

Neilson v. City of California City

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
The California Constitution does not prohibit a tax on the mere ownership of real property if the tax is a special tax and not an ad valorem tax.

RLH Indus., Inc. v. SBC Communications, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law
The commerce clause does not bar application of California antitrust law to out-of-state anticompetitive conduct that causes injury in California.

Chaker v. Crogan

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
California Penal Code section 148.6 impermissibly discriminates on the basis of a speaker-s viewpoint in violation of the First Amendment since it...

Reichley v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the Secretary of Agriculture's actions in response to an outbreak of avian influenza did...

Fields v. Palmdale Sch. Dist.

Constitutional Law, Education Law
Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be...

Bayliss v. Barnhart

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits is affirmed over her claim that her due process rights were violated when the...

Schrier v. Univ. of Colorado

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Denial of plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction is affirmed where his First Amendment claims, alleging retaliatory termination, failed to...

Thompson v. Dist. of Columbia

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination dispute, the district court improperly dismissed plaintiff's claims, which alleged retaliation on the basis of...