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WIGGINS v. SMITH

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
An objective review of the performance by a criminal defendant's counsel in a capital case shows that the client's Sixth Amendment rights were...

LAWRENCE v. TEXAS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Texas law criminalizing two people of the same sex from engaging in private, consensual sex is unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court's decision in...

PAYNTER v. STATE OF NEW YORK

Constitutional Law, Education Law
Plaintiffs' novel theory, that the State's fault lies in practices and policies that have resulted in high concentrations of racial minorities and...

CAMPAIGN FOR FISCAL EQUITY v. STATE OF NEW YORK

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
The State has violated the mandate in art. XI, section 1 of the NY Constitution by establishing an education financing system that fails to afford New...

CARPINTERIA VALLEY FARMS, LTD. v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Claims of retaliation, denial of equal protection and due process grounded in acts pertaining to a polo field application and residential building...

US v. MORENO-MORILLO

Admiralty, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Fifth and Sixth Amendment challenges to the constitutionality of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act are rejected in an appeal arising out of the...

CLIFFORD v. CHANDLER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A police officer's racial voice identification of one the voices that the officer heard in apartment as belonging to a black male will not necessarily...

MACE v. CITY OF PALESTINE

Constitutional Law
Grant of summary judgment for police officer defendants based on qualified immunity is affirmed in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive...

DUDLEY v. HANNAFORD BROS. CO.

Constitutional Law
A policy, which forbade the manager of the store in question from reconsidering a clerk's initial refusal to sell alcohol to a disabled person whose...

IN RE: SERV. MERCH. CO., INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law
In light of In re Hood, 319 F.3d 755 (6th Cir. 2003), the Commissioner of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not entitled to sovereign...