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UNITED PARCEL SERV., INC. v. FLORES-GALARZA

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Tax Law, Transportation
Puerto Rico's statutory regime, prohibiting an interstate air carrier from delivering certain packages without proof of excise tax payment, falls...

MARTINEZ v. DEP'T OF THE U.S. ARMY

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Where a federal agency has not taken final action within 180 days of an employee complaint, and where plaintiff's abandonment of his EEOC appeal was...

ROLE MODELS AM., INC. v. WHITE

Administrative Law, Government Law, Military Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The procedure followed by the Secretary of Defense, in conveying a closed military base to a state-created development corporation, violated...

MUNSON v. MERIT SYS. PROT. BD.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Merit Systems Protection Board erred in finding untimely a federal employee's appeal after denial of a within-grade increase, where the employee...

DAWKINS v. WITT

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Plaintiffs who suffered hurricane damage could not recover from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where they failed to file proof of loss...

NICHOLS v. MUSKINGUM COLL.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff satisfied administrative prerequisites for bringing a Title VII action in federal court, where her actions constituted initially instituting...

MANRIQUEZ v. GOURLEY

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In overturning suspension of driving privileges, the trial court based its ruling on an incorrect interpretation of the regulation setting forth the...

21ST CENTURY TELESIS JOINT VENTURE v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Cyberspace Law
Appellant lacked standing to bring challenges to the FCC's automatic cancellation of its broadband licenses, as its subsequent decision not to seek...

RUGIERRO v. FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
The character qualification provision of the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000, making ineligible for a certain radio license anyone who...

STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT, COUNTY OF KINGS (BODDE)

Administrative Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Compliance with the California Tort Claims Act is a procedural prerequisite to, and neither creates nor is an element of, a tort cause of action...