This case requires us to decide
whether an ordinance in the City of Portland, Maine that prohibits
standing, sitting, staying, driving, or parking on median strips
violates the constitutional guarantee of "the freedom of speech."
U.S. Const. Amend. I.1 We conclude that the ordinance does, because
it indiscriminately bans virtually all expressive activity in all
of the City'... More...   $0 (09-11-2015 - ME)

This appeal presents the recurring issue of statutory
interpretation that arises when express terms in one
provision of a statute are arguably in tension with language
in another provision of the same statute. The Supreme Court
recently encountered a similar issue when it interpreted a
provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
in Burwell v. King, 135 S. Ct... More...   $0 (09-10-2015 - NY)

Plaintiff Oliver Salmon sued the City of Albany, the Albany Police
Department, Police Officer Thomas Blesser, and two “John Doe” employees of
the Police Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and New York State law for
alleged constitutional and tort injuries resulting from the use of physical force to
eject him from the Albany City Court. Salmon now appeals from a judgment
entered ... More...   $0 (09-10-2015 - NY)

Since 1975, we have held that provisions precluding government employees
4 from seeking elective office are constitutionally permissible personnel rules
5 regulating conflicts of interest. See State ex rel. Gonzales v. Manzagol, 1975-NMSC-
6 002, ¶¶ 18-19, 87 N.M. 230, 531 P.2d 1203. These personnel rules act as conditions
7 of employment, and therefore do not constitute added qual... More...   $0 (09-09-2015 - NM)

The underlying facts are taken from this Court’s opinion on direct appeal:
Gerhard Hojan was charged with armed robbery, armed kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder arising out of the events of Monday, March 11, 2002. The evidence presented at Hojan’s trial established that at approximately 4 a.m., Hojan and Jimmy Mickel entered the Waffle House where the victims, Barbara Nunn, Christina ... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - FL)

In this appeal, we determine whether an
ordinance imposing restrictions on the right of sex offenders to
reside in the city of Lynn (city) is prohibited by the Home Rule
Amendment, art. 89, § 6, of the Amendments to the Massachusetts
Constitution, and the Home Rule Procedures Act, G. L. c. 43B,
§ 13. The plaintiffs, who represent a certified class of sex
offenders su... More...   $0 (08-28-2015 - MA)

The City maintains a drinking water distribution system. In December of 2011, the City commissioned the services of Riedesel Engineering to determine the present and future adequacy of the system with respect to laws and standards of the local fire authority, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
2
Riedesel Engineerin... More...   $0 (08-20-2015 - ID)

2 Narcisa Veliz Novack (“Novack”) and her brother Cristobal Veliz (“Veliz”)
3 appeal from judgments of conviction entered following a two-month jury trial in
4 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kenneth
5 M. Karas, Judge). Both were convicted of numerous offenses, including one
6 count of racketeering in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and... More...   $0 (08-19-2015 - NY)

In 2010, the plaintiffs sued their Iowa employers, Manley Toy Direct,
L.L.C., and Toy Network, L.L.C., and related companies for alleged violations of
the Iowa Civil Rights Act, Iowa Code chapter 216 (2009). Additional related
entity defendants were added in two amendments, including Manley Toys
Limited and Toy Quest, Ltd. (collectively, hereinafter “Entity Defendants”). The <... More...   $0 (08-19-2015 - IA)

  We draw the following facts from Chen’s first amended complaint 8
(“Complaint”) and the documents incorporated therein by reference. Fed. R. Civ. 9
P. 10(c); see Roth v. Jennnings, 489 F.3d 499, 509 (2d Cir. 2007) (“Documents that 10
are attached to the complaint or incorporated in it by reference are deemed part 11
of the pleading and may be considered.”). We accept the... More...   $0 (08-14-2015 - NY)

In early 2010, a group of seven Somalis — including defendants Mohamed Ali Said, Mohamed Abdi Jama, and Abdicasiis Cabaase — boarded a small skiff and entered the Gulf of Aden (in the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa), intending to seize a merchant ship at sea. Their objective was foiled by the British warship HMS Chatham, which was conducting a counter-piracy miss... More...   $0 (08-14-2015 - VA)

5 Plaintiff‐Appellant John Chen brought suit against Major League Baseball
6 Properties, Inc. and the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (“Defendants”)
7 alleging violations of the minimum wage and recordkeeping provisions of the
8 Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., and the New York
9 Labor Law (“NYLL”), §§ 190 et seq. & 650 et seq. Chen alleged ... More...   $0 (08-14-2015 - NY)

San Francisco, CA - Owner Of Yountville Art Gallery Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Traffick Protected Wildlife

Michael Polenske pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to wildlife trafficking and conspiracy.
Polenske, 53, of Napa, is the owner of Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley, a fine art and antique gallery as well as a wine tasting collective in Yountville, Calif. In pleading guil... More...   $0 (08-12-2015 - CA)

In this case, we must decide whether Oklahoma’s depiction of a Native American
shooting an arrow towards the sky on its standard vehicle license plates compels
Appellant Keith Cressman to speak in violation of his First Amendment rights.
In a prior appeal, we determined that Mr. Cressman had alleged sufficient injury to
confer standing and that he had stated a plausible compelled-s... More...   $0 (08-04-2015 - OK)

Respondent FibroGen, Inc., appeals the district court’s order granting an ex parte application, filed by Petitioner Akebia Therapeutics, Inc., pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782, for discovery in aid of foreign proceedings. The district court held, among other things, that Akebia was an “interested person” within the meaning of § 1782 and that the Japanese and European Patent Offices are “tribunals” to... More...   $0 (07-19-2015 - )

We begin with a brief summary of the regulation of the initiative petition signature collection process to provide context for our discussion of the relevant facts. The powers of initiative and referendum reserved by the people in Article IV, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution allow them to enact statutes, adopt or reject bills passed by the legislature, and adopt amendments to the state consti... More...   $0 (07-16-2015 - )

Appellants Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. (“Searcy Denney”), et al. appeal the refusal of the guardianship court to authorize payment of $2.5 million in attorneys’ fees to the firms involved in the litigation of a medical malpractice lawsuit, the appeal, and a subsequent lobbying effort to secure a claims bill (also deemed a “private relief act”) from the Legislature on behalf of A... More...   $0 (07-15-2015 - FL)

32 Luis Ramon Morales‐Santana asks us to review a March 3, 2011
33 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his motion to
3
reopen his removal 1 proceedings relating to his claim of derivative
2 citizenship. Under the statute in effect when Morales‐Santana was born – the
3 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the “1952 Act”) – a child bornMore...   $0 (07-09-2015 - NY)

Esteban Nunez--the son of Fabian Nunez, the former Speaker of the California State Assembly--aided in the killing of Luis Santos, the only son of Frederico and Kathy Santos, during a knife attack on October 4, 2008. The attack, initiated by Esteban Nunez and his acquaintances on Santos and on other young men, none of whom were armed, took place near the campus of San Diego State University. Among ... More...   $0 (07-01-2015 - CA)

Prisoners sentenced to death in the State of Oklahoma
filed an action in federal court under Rev. Stat. §1979, 42
U. S. C. §1983, contending that the method of execution
now used by the State violates the Eighth Amendment
because it creates an unacceptable risk of severe pain.
They argue that midazolam, the first drug employed in the
State’s current three-drug protocol,... More...   $0 (06-30-2015 - DC)

In 2000, Arizona voters adopted an initiative, Proposition
106, aimed at “ending the practice of gerrymandering
and improving voter and candidate participation in elections.�
App. 50. Proposition 106 amended Arizona’s Constitution
to remove redistricting authority from the Arizona
Legislature and vest that authority in an independent
commission, the Arizona Independen... More...   $0 (06-29-2015 - DC)

A jury found that the defendant, the
Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, acted
negligently and recklessly when it assigned Father Ivan
Ferguson, an alcoholic whose admitted acts of child
molestation were understood to be linked to his drinking,
to serve as the director of Saint Mary’s Elementary
School in Derby (Saint Mary’s School), where he sexually
abus... More...   $0 (06-27-2015 - CT)

The underlying dispute in this case concerns where housing for low-income persons should be constructed in Dallas, Texas—that is, whether the housing should be built in the inner city or in the suburbs. This dispute comes to the Court on a disparate-impact theory of liability. In contrast to a disparate-treatment case, where a “plaintiff must establish that the defendant had a discriminatory i... More...   $0 (06-25-2015 - TX)

Placed in removal proceedings
after his arrest on state charges, Michael Jonathan Mazariegos
sought to forestall his removal based on his marriage to a United
States citizen and the hardship his removal would cause his family.
He prevailed before an immigration judge (IJ), but lost when the
government appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
Mazariegos did not se... More...   $0 (06-24-2015 - MA)

New Have, CT - Matthew Tollis, 22, of Wethersfield, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to participating in a series of “swatting� incidents that occurred in Connecticut and other states in 2014.

“Swattingâ€� is the making of a hoax call to any emergency service to elicit an emergency response based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident. Incidents typicall... More...   $0 (06-23-2015 - CT)