all - Opinion Summaries

S.D. MYER, INC. v. CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Constitutional Law, ERISA
City ordinance that requires city contractors to provide benefits to domestic partners does not facially violate the Dormant Commerce Clause.

HOLMAN v. U.S. R.R. RETIREMENT BD.

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits
Computing railroad retirement widower benefits under 45 USC 231c(g)(4) is narrowly tailored to protect reliance interests of railroad retirees and...

SMITH v. DEP'T OF JUSTICE

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC 552, a federal prisoner is entitled to obtain copies of monitored and recorded telephone conversations...

DANSKINE v. MIAMI DADE FIRE DEP'T

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Past practice of excluding women from firefighting positions justified affirmative action plan that set long-term goal of hiring 36% female...

LEWIS v. WILSON

Constitutional Law
Missouri statute allowing the Department of Revenue to refuse to issue license plates that are "contrary to public policy" violates the First...

KANSAS v. COLORADO

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Money damages for violation of the Arkansas River Compact do not violate the Eleventh Amendment because the parties to the compact are states, not...

KYLLO v. US

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The government's use of a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable...

NGUYEN v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
8 USC 1409(a), setting forth citizenship requirements for one born out of wedlock and abroad to a citizen father and a noncitizen mother, does not...

GOOD NEWS CLUB v. MILFORD CENT. SCH.

Constitutional Law
Government actors may not exclude speech from a limited public forum on the basis of the religious nature of the speech, because the exclusion...

GARDNER v. VESPIA

Constitutional Law
Because the Second Amendment does not confer an absolute right to bear arms, plaintiff's inability to purchase a gun because of a misinterpretation of...