After the employer suspended petitioner state employee Keeler for 10 days without pay due to the state employee's refusal to perform a certain duty, the state employee sought review by the state personnel board from the order of suspension. The appeal...

A three-judge court convened by the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California under 18 U.S.C.S. § 3626 issued an order requiring appellant Governor of the State of California to reduce overcrowding in its prisons to...

Nken v. Holder Supreme Court of the United States January 21, 2009, Argued; April 22, 2009, Decided No. 08-681 Case Summary Procedural Posture Petitioner alien sought a stay of removal pending review of the removal order, but respondent U.S. Attorney...

Woodford v. Garceau Supreme Court of the United States January 21, 2003, Argued ; March 25, 2003, Decided No. 01-1862 Case Summary Procedural Posture Petitioner prison warden sought a writ of certiorari challenging the United States Court of Appeals for...

Petitioner immigrant was admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident because of his marriage to a United States citizen. In 1980, petitioner was convicted in California of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to seven...

Appellant Hawaii Housing Authority ("HHA") enacted the Act after the Hawaiian legislature discovered only a small number of landholders owned the state's land. The legislature concluded that concentrated land ownership was responsible for...

Respondent property seller conveyed approximately twenty-three acres to the petitioner property buyer by a warranty deed that contained a restrictive covenant that limited construction to a colonial-type residence of a specified value. Respondent no longer...

Petitioner prisoner and an accomplice went to a house to accost an individual who had been reported as making disparaging comments about the prisoner. When the prisoner arrived at the house with a pistol, the mother of the other man became alarmed about...

Appellant mother's five-year old child was accidentally shot and killed while appellant was temporarily absent. Appellee undertaker took the child's body to his establishment without appellant's authority or the authority of anyone authorized...

Carl A. Morse, Inc. v. Rentar Indus. Dev. Corp. Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department January 24, 1977 No Number in Original Opinion  [*30]   [**426]  In an action to foreclose certain mechanics' liens, and for other related...