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DEP'T OF ALCOHOLIC BEV. CONTROL v. ALCOHOLIC BEV. CONTROL APP. BD.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a challenge to a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control's administrative proceeding, the department's failure to separate the prosecutorial...

PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. SANCHEZ

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
The district court erred when it granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Texas Legislature's restriction on the distribution...

FRANK KRASNER ENTER. v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Constitutional Law, Government Law
A gun-show promoter and an exhibitor at that promoter's gun shows do not have standing to challenge in federal court a county law that denies public...

CROWLEY v. MCKINNEY

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Family Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit, alleging that defendant-principal's failure to give certain notices to non-custodial parents deprives him of a...

DISMAS CHARITIES, INC. v. US DEP'T OF JUSTICE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The district court properly dismissed, for lack of standing, plaintiff-charity's challenge to a Bureau of Prisons policy that reduced the number of...

ATLAS TEL. CO. v. OKLAHOMA CORP. COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission's orders, which established interconnection obligations under the federal Telecommunications Act between rural...

CRONUS INV. INC. v. CONCIERGE SERV.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
An arbitration agreement, calling for the application of the Federal Arbitration Act(FAA) "if it would be applicable," does not preclude the...

MEYERS v. REDWOOD CITY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a section 1983 suit alleging unlawful search and seizure, the district court's denial of summary judgment is reversed where defendant-police...

GILBERT v. FERRY

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff's action, alleging that defendant-justices improperly failed to recuse themselves, is dismissed pursuant to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine...

BIGBY v. DRETKE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Plaintiff-inmate's sentence is vacated where the jury instructions given by the trial judge at the sentencing phase were unconstitutional since they...