all - Opinion Summaries

MARTINEZ-SANES v. TURNBULL

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Three government employees did not qualify as policy-makers under Virgin Islands law; hence, their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated...

GENTRY v. ROE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Legal Malpractice
Trial counsel's election in closing argument, to ignore evidence in the record that would help his client, and to highlight detrimental record and...

CARGLE v. MULLIN

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Legal Malpractice, Sentencing
Petitioner is entitled to relief from capital convictions and death sentences based on ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct,...

SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE NETWORK v. CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL

Constitutional Law, Transportation
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) acted appropriately, pursuant to its authority to direct traffic, in interfering with plaintiffs' display of...

DELANO FARMS CO. v. CALIFORNIA TABLE GRAPE COMM'N

Agriculture, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
Under the First Amendment, grape growers could not constitutionally be compelled by state law to pay money for the generic advertising of grapes.

RESNICK v. ADAMS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Requiring a prisoner to fill out a standard prison form in order to receive kosher food did not violate prisoner's First Amendment right to the free...

ANTHONY v. COUNCIL

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
The district court was correct in abstaining under the Younger doctrine, in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by persons under child support...

BRUGGEMAN v. RYAN

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
The Justice Department's filing of 1) an amicus brief in an appeal, and 2) a later brief as an intervenor, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2403(a), were...

U.S. v. RICKETTS

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Use of a firearm and committing a firearm murder in connection with a drug conspiracy, under 18 U.S.C. sections 924(c) and 924(i), are within...

SOB, INC. v. COUNTY OF BENTON

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law
County had sufficient evidence of adverse secondary effects to justify enactment of an ordinance banning live nude dancing, and the ordinance 1) was...