August 24 – 28, 2009. To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, August 24, 2009 Calderon-Garnier v. Sanchez-Ramos, No. 08-1284 In an employment discrimination case brought by a former prosecutor of Puerto Rico,…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. July 20-24. 2009. U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, July 21, 2009 Oscar Renda Contracting Inc. v. Lubbock, No. 08-10481 In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant city violated…
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To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. July 6-10. 2009. U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, July 08, 2009 McCullen v. Coakley , No. 08-2310 In an action challenging a statute creating a fixed buffer zone around reproductive health…
TITLE: A Right to Discriminate? SUBTITLE: How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association AUTHOR: Andrew Koppelman with Tobias Barrington Wolff PUBLICATION DATE: July 2009 PUBLISHER: Yale University Press PAGE COUNT: 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-12127-8 PROBABLE PRICE: $38.00 Koppelman (law &…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. June 15-19, 2009. U.S. Supreme Court, June 15, 2009 Polar Tankers, Inc. v. Valdez, No. 08–310 In a Tonnage Clause challenge to an Alaska ordinance imposing a personal property tax on large…
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Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW, SANCTIONS Gollomp v. Spitzer, No. 07-0847 District court judgment dismissing plaintiff’s second amended complaint against various state entities and imposing sanctions on his attorneys is affirmed where: 1) the New York State Unified Court System is an arm of the…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. May 25-29, 2009. U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, May 27, 2009 Pyke v. Cuomo, No. 07-0334 District court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants on plaintiffs’ claim that defendants’ response to…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. May 11-15, 2009. U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, May 12, 2009 Midi v. Holder, No. 08-1367 Petitioner’s petition for review of the BIA’s order removing her from the U.S. is denied,…