Defendant Avon Motors, Inc. (Avon) was engaged in the business of buying and selling used automobiles. Avon leased its place of business and all of its equipment to lessee (defendant Levin), who planned to operate his own used automobile business at the...

In 1965, parents purchased a property and included their daughter as a joint tenant with rights of survivorship on the deed to avoid probate upon their deaths. In 1980, the daughter moved to the property to care for her elderly parents. The father died...

The Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 9, New York, adopted a program of daily classroom prayers in public schools. The prayer was brief, denominationally neutral, and its observance on the part of the students was voluntary. Shortly...

The city of Providence, Rhode Island had a policy of permitting its public high school and middle school principals to invite members of the clergy to offer invocation and benediction prayers as part of the schools' formal graduation ceremonies. Pursuant...

In order to manage the allocation of water and to resolve conflicting claims thereto, Colorado enacted legislation under which the state was divided into seven Water Divisions, in each of which a procedure was established for the settlement of water claims...

Before the effective dates of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA") and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA"), § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality...

At his trial for intentional murder in a Kentucky state court, defendant Weir took the stand in his own defense, admitting that he stabbed the victim, Ronnie Buchanan, but claiming, for the first time, that he acted in self-defense and that the stabbing...

Under the federal-state programs of Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (AABD) Illinois public aid officials administered the benefits pursuant to their own regulations, which, as to the applicable time requirements, were less favorable to the recipients...

A tax against a distributor was assessed when it sold gasoline to the United States Army Post Exchange. The tax consisted of a license tax on the privilege of distributing motor vehicle fuel based on the California Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Ac t...

Lockheed Martin Corp. (“Lockheed”) removed Semtek International, Inc.'s (“Semtek”) California state-court suit to a California Federal District Court based on diversity of citizenship, and successfully moved to dismiss the...