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REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA v. WHITE

Constitutional Law, Elections
A canon of judicial conduct, prohibiting a candidate for judicial office from "announcing his or her views on disputed legal or political issues,"...

BD. OF EDUC. OF INDEP. SCH. DIST. NO. 92 OF POTTAWATAMIE COUNTY v. EARLS

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law
A school district policy, requiring students participating in extracurricular activities to consent to drug testing, reasonably furthers the...

PAULSON v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO

Constitutional Law
After an injunction prohibited a city from maintaining a 43-foot high cross in a public park, the city's sale of the cross to a private entity was...

NEWDOW v. US CONGRESS

Constitutional Law, Education Law
The addition of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (via 1954 federal statute), and a school district policy of teacher-led...

PEATE v. MCCANN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In an inmate's action for Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations against a corrections officer, based on his facilitation of and failure to break...

ANDERSON v. TREADWELL

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A state's regulation of in-home real estate solicitation, establishing "cease-and-desist zones" in which homeowners can elect not to receive such...

BE&K CONSTR. CO. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The NLRB's definition of a retaliatory suit (by an employer against a union) as one brought with a motive to interfere with the exercise of protected...

HARDING v. HARDING

Constitutional Law, Family Law
The federal Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act, and its California equivalent, are not unconstitutional as infringements upon a local...

SANTA FE PAC. R.R. CO. v. US

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In a rail company's suit for the alleged taking of land in Arizona, through enactment of the Resolution of Western Lands Dispute Act of July 2, 1993...

BILLINGTON v. SMITH

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
A police officer was entitled to qualified immunity for shooting and killing a motorist, while the officer was off-duty and in an unmarked police car,...