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Cleghorn v. Blue Shield of Cal.

Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit for reimbursement of medical services fees, plaintiff's California state court claim, alleging that defendant violated an emergency care...

Lingle v. Chevron

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The "substantially advances" formula, announced in Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255 (1980), is not an appropriate test for determining whether a...

Johanns v. Livestock Mktg. Ass'n

Agriculture, Constitutional Law
Generic advertising to promote beef and beef products, financed through assessments on the sale of cattle, is the government's own speech and is not...

Clingman v. Beaver

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
Oklahoma's semiclosed primary system does not violate the right to freedom of association since any burden it imposes is minor and justified by...

Deck v. Missouri

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Constitution forbids the use of visible shackles during a capital trial's penalty phase, as it does during the guilt phase, unless that use is...

Zheng v. Ashcroft

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is denied over her claim that she was prejudiced in her appeal before the Board of Immigration Appeals by her...

US v. Roy

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction for assaulting a federal officer, entered along with a conviction for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, is reversed...

Hernandez-Moran v. Ashcroft

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Denial of plaintiff's motion to reopen is affirmed over his claim that his Fifth Amendment due process rights were violated because his counsel was...

Fontani v. Wells Fargo Inv.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's defamation claim is dismissed under the anti-SLAPP law where defendant's submission of a Form U-5 to the National Association of...

US v. Molina

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The district court's refusal to allow defendant to cross-examine a witness completely excluded a potentially viable line of defense in violation of...