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CALIFORNIA ASS'N OF RETAIL TOBACCONISTS v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Constitutional Law, Health Law, Tax Law
The California Children and Families Act of 1998 Act, which increased the tobacco excise tax, is facially constitutional. The Board of Equalization...

REEVES v. ROCKLIN UNIFIED SCH. DIST.

Constitutional Law, Education Law
Because a high school is not a college campus or public forum, the school administration may constitutionally limit access by outsiders, regardless of...

ESCALANTE v. WILSON?S ART STUDIO, INC.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer's policy against employee fighting, even in self-defense if retreat is possible, does not violate any public policy, and an employer can...

HENRIETTA D. v. BLOOMBERG

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies
The ADA and the Rehabilitation Act ("Acts") make states liable for the failure of their delegates to comply with requirements of the Acts. Injunctive...

FITZGERALD v. RACING ASS'N OF CENT. IOWA

Constitutional Law, Tax Law
Iowa's differential tax rate, distinguishing between adjusted revenues from slot machines at racetracks and revenues from riverboat slot machines,...

NGUYEN v. US

Constitutional Law
A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals consisting of two Article III judges and one Article IV territorial-court judge did not have authority...

HILLSIDE DAIRY INC. v. LYONS

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
California's milk pricing and pooling regulations are not exempted from Commerce Clause scrutiny by the Federal Agriculture and Reform Act of 1996....

LOSHONKOHL v. KINDER

Constitutional Law
Civil Code section 47.5, which creates an absolute privilege from liability for a publication made in any legislative or judicial proceeding or any...

BOGLE v. MCCLURE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In claims of race discrimination at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, a $17 million award for compensatory and punitive damages is affirmed,...

VAN SUSTEREN v. JONES

Constitutional Law, Elections
Plaintiff did not meet the disaffiliation requirement in California Elections Code section 8001 because he had been registered as a Republican within...