all - Opinion Summaries

MOORE v. KINNEY

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Nebraska's "exceptional depravity" statute, Nebraska Revised Statutes Sections 29-2523(1)(d), which allows enhnaced sentencing in a murder case if the...

LARSEN v. FREDERICKSEN

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case involving the Federal Officer Removal Statute, 28 U.S.C. Section 1442(a)(1), a plaintiff's allegation that the US Attorney was incompetent...

LONG ISLAND BD. OF REALTORS, INC. v. INC. VILLAGE OF MASSAPEQUA PARK

Constitutional Law
When a local entity-s regulation of the size, placement, and number of commercial signs placed on residential property, and prohibition of off-site...

ABRAMSON v. PATAKI

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between a number of unions and a State convention center did not guarantee employment or limit the center-s...

HOLLOWAY v, REEVES

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Aside from economic benefits, there are no constitutionally-protected property interests in a public policy-making decision.

REGENSBURGER v. CITY OF BOWLING GREEN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Where a challenged voting apportionment scheme demonstrated a population deviation as high as 66.85%, the scheme exceeded Fourteenth Amendment Equal...

US v. CANTRELL

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Because Congress intended money laundering, 18 U.S.C. section 1957, to be a punishable criminal offense separate from the underlying offense of mail...

RICHLAND BOOKMART, INC. v. NICHOLS

Constitutional Law
A statute imposing operating-hour restrictions on certain adult-oriented establishments does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...

STAR SCIENTIFIC, INC. v. BEALES

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Va. Code Ann. SS 3.1-336.1 and 3.1-336.2, enacted pursuant to the Master Settlement Agreement with tobacco companies for smoking-related illnesses,...

VUKADINOVICH v. BD. SCH. TRUSTEES OF N. NEWTON SCH. CORP.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where an employee is fired for insubordination, evidence that the defendant supervisor was under pressure to "get rid of" employee is insufficient to...