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Russell v. Hennepin County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff's section 1983 claim is dismissed where defendant-municipality's policy regarding the monitoring of inmates subject to conditional release...

Members of the Peanut Quota v. US

Agriculture, Constitutional Law
The statutorily created peanut quota, under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act, is not a property right that is compensable under the...

Hawthorne v. Reliance Ins. Co.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
The McCarran-Ferguson Act does not bar the federal diversity statute, 28 U.S.C. section 1332, from preempting Pennsylvania's rehabilitation and...

Williams v. Roe

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of plaintiff's petition for writ of habeas corpus is reversed where the application of an amended version of California Penal Code section 654...

Sutton v. St. Jude Med.

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff has standing to seek medical testing and monitoring made necessary by the implantation of a medical device that has not yet malfunctioned or...

Manufactured Home Cmty. v. City of San Jose

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Plaintiff's challenge to defendant-City's Mobilehome Rent Ordinance is dismissed on the basis of res judicata, untimeliness, failure to state a...

Perez v. Ellington

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law, Tax Law
Plaintiffs have successfully established their First Amendment retaliation claim where defendants' quick decision to issue jeopardy tax assessments...

Ashley Creek Phosphate Co. v. Norton

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Plaintiff does not have standing to challenge a phosphate mining project since its interests were purely economic, which does not fall within the zone...

Biby v. Bd. of Regents

Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's constitutional rights were not violated by the search of his office computer where plaintiff failed to show he had a reasonable...

Morse v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Tax Law
Civil tax fraud penalties against plaintiff for unreported income, imposed after a criminal conviction for the same unpaid taxes, did not violate the...