all - Opinion Summaries

LEVITAN v. ASHCROFT

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
To determine whether a prison rule violates the First Amendment by preventing inmates from observing religious practice, a trial court must make a...

US v. SELL

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
The government may, subject to several limitations, forcibly administer antipsychotic medication for the sole purpose of rendering a pre-trial...

HARGIS v. FOSTER

Constitutional Law
Defendant raised a triable issue of fact as to whether prison's coercion regulation was constitutional as applied to him; a court may not dismiss a...

BORGNER v. BROOKS

Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law
The disclosure provision of Florida Statutes section 466.0282, which requires Florida-licensed dentists to include disclaimers when advertising...

MARTINEZ-CAMARGO v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERV.

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
The following analysis should be used to assess when the INS's failure to adhere to its own administrative regime results in invalidation of the...

HOANG v. COMFORT

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which required the mandatory detention of criminal aliens pending administrative removal...

LEE v. FERRARO

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Where the female defendant was stopped by a male officer for excessive honking of her car's horn, the officer was entitled to qualified immunity on a...

NEXTEL WEST CORP. v. UNITY TOWNSHIP

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A wireless telecommunications company's claims, alleging that a zoning ordinance violated the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, were not mooted...

VASQUEZ-VELEZMORO v. US IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERV.

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Because petitioner received a term of state probation longer than that allowed for eligibility under the Federal First Offender Act, he is not...

FRIENDS FOR FERRELL PARKWAY, LLC v. STASKO

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Where plaintiffs described their injuries to be the deleterious effects they believed the Fish and Wildlife Service's acquisition of certain property...