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AMMEX, INC. v. COX

Constitutional Law, False Advertising
Because plaintiff's pre-enforcement challenge to the applicability of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act is not ripe, and the judgment of the...

SIMON v. SAN PAOLO U.S. HOLDING CO., INC.

Constitutional Law, Remedies
In light of State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Campbell (2003) 538 U.S. ____, 123 S.Ct. 1513, the holding that the punitive damages assessed against...

STEMLER v. FLORENCE

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an action arising out of an encounter with the police, denial of summary judgment is reversed on equal protection claim as this issue was barred by...

CHIPMAN v. FLORENCE

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an action arising out of an encounter with the police, grant of summary judgment to defendants on plaintiff's substantive due process claim is...

NEWSOM v. ALBEMARLE COUNTY SCH. BD.

Constitutional Law, Education Law
Plaintiff's appeal of order denying preliminary injunction is reversed, as he satisfied the test governing preliminary injunctions with regard to his...

GILBERTSON v. ALBRIGHT

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Civil rights case reversed and remanded to determine whether plaintiff's action is barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and by claim preclusion.

AKERS v. MCGINNIS

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
A Michigan state department of corrections ruling that barred employees from any non-work-related contact with prisoners, parolees and probationers...

US v. BREDIMUS

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction for knowingly and willfully traveling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act with a person under 18 years of age...

G.M. ENTERS., INC. v. TOWN OF ST. JOSEPH

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
The record supports defendant's claim that ordinances at issue are not an attempt to regulate the expressive content of nude dancing; town had a...

N.W. ENTERS. INC. v. CITY OF HOUSTON

Constitutional Law
In an challenge to Houston's 1997 amendments to its ordinances governing sexually oriented businesses (SOBs), all of the provisions of City Ordinance...