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In the Matter of Huckaby v. N.Y. State Division of Tax Appeals

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
New York's "convenience of the employer" test does not violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

People v. Andrades

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Professional Malpractice
Defense counsel's disclosure to the court that his client had offered perjured testimony did not deprive defendant of a fair hearing or of the...

Taylor v. Westly

Constitutional Law, Securities Law
The Eleventh Amendment does not bar the claims of persons who want to get back stock that was escheated to the state.

Cummings v. Connell

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law
When nominal damages are awarded in a civil rights class action, every member of the class whose constitutional rights were violated is entitled to...

San Diego Metro. Transit Dev. Bd. v. RV Cmty.

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A judgment in condemnation, awarding defendant compensation for property taken by eminent domain and inverse condemnation, is affirmed.

People v. Carmony

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's 25-year recidivist sentence, imposed solely for failure to provide duplicate registration information, is reversed where it is grossly...

Power Standards v. Fed. Express Corp.

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts
When a shipper has paid the contractual limit of its liability for damaged goods, state common law and statutory remedies cannot augment that...

US v. Brown

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The grant of defendant's motion to suppress evidence is affirmed where the police officers lacked sufficient justification under the Fourth Amendment...

Watson v. Boyajian

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Denial of plaintiff-debtors' proposed Chapter 13 plan is affirmed over plaintiffs' claim that the bankruptcy court erred in determining that parochial...

Levine v. United Healthcare Corp.

Constitutional Law, ERISA, Insurance Law
A New Jersey statute, which states that subrogation and reimbursement provisions are no longer permitted in New Jersey health insurance policies, is...