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VASQUEZ v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Commercial Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
A Code of Civil Procedure section 526a taxpayer action may be brought to compel the state to discharge its duty under the Prison Inmate Labor...

JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. v. ROSSOTTI

Government Law, Remedies, Tax Law
The Anti-Injunction Act bars requested injunctive relief against the IRS for a purportedly retaliatory tax audit, and no recognized exception to the...

DYACK v. COMMONWEALTH OF THE N. MARIANA ISLANDS

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A physician with the Department of Public Health was not a member of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Civil Service, and was not...

VAUGHN v. COX

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
A sheriff deputy is entitled to qualified immunity from a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit arising out of a police chase, because U.S. Supreme Court...

ELEC. INSPECTORS, INC. v. VILLAGE OF E. HILLS

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Contracts, Government Law
The state-action immunity doctrine does not shield a municipality and a private corporation from alleged federal antitrust-law violations, resulting...

PHILLIP v. UNIV. OF ROCHESTER

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
The equal benefit clause of 42 U.S.C. section 1981(a) does not require state action, and students' allegations stated a claim that private university...

ATKINSON v. TAYLOR

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law
Corrections officials and officers were not entitled to qualified immunity for an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and Eighth Amendment environmental...

STATE POLICE FOR AUTOMATIC RETIREMENT ASS'N v. DIFAVA

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
Neither the Supreme Court's decision in Kimel v. Florida Bd. of Regents, 528 U.S. 62 (2002), nor Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence prevents individuals...

FORD v. REYNOLDS

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
The district court must consider qualified immunity issues in claims against college officials in their individual capacities, arising from...

DUENAS v. COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY

Administrative Law, Government Law
A Freedom of Information Act claimant did not preserve a challenge to the sufficiency of a State Department affidavit and, in attacking the adequacy...