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State of North Dakota v. US Dep't of the Army

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
The principles of preemption preclude plaintiff-State's enforcement of its water-quality standards against the US Army Corps of Engineers' releases of...

Wuebker v. Wilbur-Ellis Co.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Neither the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, nor a related Environmental Protection Agency regulation, preempted plaintiffs' state...

IBM Personal Pension Plan v. City of San Francisco

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In a suit to recover property taxes, plaintiff lacked standing to seek the refund of the taxes paid because it did not pay them, as required by...

Brazos Valley Coalition For Life, Inc. v. City of Bryan Texas

Constitutional Law, Government Law
Defendant-City's sign code, which regulates where and how signs are displayed, is not unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

Wells Fargo Bank v. Boutris

Banking Law, Constitutional Law
Section 501 of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 does not preempt California's per diem loan interest statute.

Am.-Arab Anti-Discrimination Comm. v. City of Dearborn

Constitutional Law, Government Law
Defendant-City's ordinance, which regulates parades on the city streets and sidewalks, violates the First Amendment.

Swipies v. Kofka

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a section 1983 action, a jury properly found that plaintiff's procedural due process rights were violated; however, its award of punitive damages...

Ghafur v. Bernstein

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Defendant's motion to strike plaintiff's defamation complaint is granted where the alleged libel pertained to plaintiff's role as a public official,...

The Tool Box, Inc. v. Ogden City Corp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a First Amendment civil rights complaint, denial of plaintiff's postjudgment motion to amend its complaint is affirmed where the motion to amend...

SEC v. Smyth

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Securities Law
A judgment in favor of the SEC, recovering profits defendant reaped from insider trading, is vacated where the procedure the district court employed...