all - Opinion Summaries

Hassell v. Bird

Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit involving defamatory posts made about an attorney by a former client on Yelp, an online review website, the trial court's judgment in favor...

McGowan v. US

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Media Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a suit arising out of the publication of an article authored by a prisoner, asserting claims for violation of his First Amendment rights under...

Simmons v. Himmelreich

Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which a federal prisoner filed two suits against the U.S. and individual Bureau of Prison employees, under the Federal Tort Claims Act...

Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v. Cortes

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In a challenge to the constitutionality of two provisions of Pennsylvania's election code, 25 Pa. Stat. Ann. sections 2911(b) and 2937, which regulate...

Bruni v. City of Pittsburgh

Health Law, Constitutional Law
In an action challenging a City ordinance that prohibits certain speech within fifteen feet of health care facilities, claiming the ordinance violates...

Tilton v. SEC

Civil Procedure, Securities Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law
In an action brought by investment firms that are defendants in an onging administrative proceeding initiated by the SEC and conducted by an...

Farkas v. Williams

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an action brought by a civil-service employee under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), against...

Wittman v. Personhuballah

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law
In an action brought by voters from Virginia's Congressional District 3 challenging the Commonwealth's 2013 congressional redistricting plan on the...

Morgan v. Lexington, MA

Civil Rights, Education Law, Constitutional Law
In a civil rights suit filed by a mother who complained that the defendants inadequately responded to the bullying of her son by his middle school...

Green v. Brennan

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit brought by a former U.S. Postal Service employee, alleging discrimination or retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...