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CSX TRANSP. v. NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF REAL PROP. SERVS.

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In passing the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, Congress abrogated the states' Eleventh Amendment immunity pursuant to its...

TANIGUCHI v. SCHULTZ

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
An equal protection claim fails where the INS has advanced a rational explanation for the difference in treatment between lawful permanent resident...

MCQUILLION v. DUNCAN

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
A prisoner is entitled to habeas relief on grounds that rescission of his parole date violated due process, where none of the "good cause" grounds for...

KINNEY v. WEAVER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Law enforcement officials are not entitled to qualified immunity to police academy instructors' 42 U.S.C. section 1985 and section 1983 First...

ALABAMA POWER CO. v. US DEP'T OF ENERGY

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
The Department of Energy is not authorized by law to spend Nuclear Waste Fund monies on settlement agreements aimed at compensating utilities for...

SHENANGO INC. v. APFEL

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Assignments of responsibility for health care premiums under the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 were not unconstitutional as applied...

MONTANA RIGHT TO LIFE ASS'N v. EDDLEMAN

Constitutional Law, Elections
Challenged provisions in Montana campaign finance reform measures are sufficiently tailored to achieve the important state interest of preventing...

NAT'L AUDUBON SOC'Y, INC. v. DAVIS

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
In a challenge to a California proposition restricting the use of certain animal traps, California Fish & Game Code section 3003.1(c) is preempted...

WYATT v. TERHUNE

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Procedure used by a magistrate deprived a pro se prisoner litigant of fair notice. The Prison Litigation Reform Act exhaustion requirement is not a...

PEREZ v. REGION 20 EDUC. SERV. CTR.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employee's failure to promote and Title VII claims related to discharge were not supported by evidence, and because a regional education program...