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MOFFAT v. BROYLES

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where a disciplinary committee concluded that plaintiff prisoner had attempted to smuggle two pieces of jewelry into the prison, because he did not...

EEOC v. BD. OF REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN SYS.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
Although defendant, a state university, enjoys Eleventh Amendment immunity from private lawsuits, sovereign immunity does not bar a suit brought...

BRYCE v. COLORADO DISTRICT CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
When a church makes a personnel decision based on religious doctrine and holds meetings to discuss that decision and the ecclesiastical doctrine...

ZICCARDI v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment based on qualified immunity properly denied, where paramedics moved decedent, who complained of neck injury, without stabilizing his...

GRIFFIN v. SEC'Y OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
38 C.F.R. section 1.218(a)(14), which governs the conduct of visitors on property under the charge and control of the VA, including national...

GREEN v. ADMINS. OF THE TULANE EDUC. FUND

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the Title VII context, where a supervisor's harassment of the plaintiff was not sexual, but occurred only after his consensual relationship with...

SHIELDS v. NORTON

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Action challenging the constitutionality of the Take Provision of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. section 1538(a)(1)(B), as applied to the...

SOUTHERN BLASTING SERVS., INC. v. WILKES COUNTY

Constitutional Law, Government Law
Where there was no state or federal intent to occupy the field of licensing and regulating explosives operations, two county ordinances, one which...

SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS v. COMM'R OF VIRGINIA DEP'T MOTOR VEHICLES

Constitutional Law, Transportation
A logo restriction provision in Virginia statute authorizing the issuance of special license plates to members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,...

THOMPSON v. W. STATES MED. CTR.

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
The Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997's prohibitions on soliciting prescriptions for, and advertising, compounded drugs, which are exempt from...