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Seeley v. Chase

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
An award for plaintiff pursuant to a jury verdict in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging that defendant-police officer sexually assaulted plaintiff...

Apodaca v. City of Albuquerque

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants, a city, its mayor, and officers, in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging a constitutionally wrongful arrest and...

Jalbert Leasing, Inc v. Mass. Port Authority

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Transportation
Summary judgment for defendant in a suit involving fees at Logan Airport is affirmed where the fees in question did not clearly fit enumerated...

Mineral Ass'ns Coalition v. State Mining & Geology Bd

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A regulation, requiring the Director of the Dep't of Conservation to concur in any lead agency determination that a mine operator has fulfilled the...

Council on Am. Islamic Relations v. Ballenger

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
Dismissal of a defamation suit brought by a nonprofit as barred by sovereign immunity is affirmed where a congressman acted "within the scope of...

Virgin Islands Tel. Corp. v. Fed. Communications Comm'n

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Government Law
A petition for review of an order finding that a provider of local telephone service in the U.S. Virgin Islands was liable to a provider of...

Gregory v. City of Louisville

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
Orders in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law case arising from plaintiff's now-vacated conviction and imprisonment on rape and related charges are...

Walton v. Tesuque Pueblo

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal in part of a suit against a pueblo and various tribal officials alleging violations of state and federal law after the tribe revoked his...

Manicki v. Zeilmann

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of retaliation suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 is affirmed where the issue was barred because of res judicata by a previous state suit that...

Scheerer v. Potter

Administrative Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for the defendant, United States Postal Service, in a suit alleging failure to reasonably accommodate a disability is affirmed where...