Mead's amended § 1983 complaint alleged that the defendants "denied [him] adequate dental care" by depriving him of "extensive dental care that he is unable to afford" and were "deliberately indifferent to [his] need for dental care in violation of his constitutional rights." He alleged that he had many teeth pulled while in custody, was unable to chew food properly, suffered from acid reflux, and

Hurricane Ike made landfall over Galveston Island in September 2008 and wrought widespread devastation on the region. Among the ruins were 569 public housing units comprising four sites located in impoverished areas of Galveston County. This case centers on a plan to replace those units in part by redeveloping on two of the sites destroyed by Ike. We address questions concerning the scope of stand

We draw the following facts, which we assume “to be true for purposes of 13  
our de novo review of the district court’s grant of defendants’ motion to dismiss,” 14  
from the plaintiff’s complaint. See Ricci v. Teamsters Union Local 456, 781 F.3d 25, 15  
26 (2d Cir. 2015). 16  
Dolan served as an ILC representative at Fishkill for two terms. On the ILC 17  
Dolan advocated “f

In Nevada, employers and coemployees of a person injured in
the course of employment are immune from liability for the injury under
the exclusive remedy provision of the workers' compensation statutes.
Additionally, some subcontractors and independent contractors are
accorded the same status as employers or coemployees of the injured
employee and are thus immune from liabi

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe (“Tribe”) appeals the
preliminary injunction prohibiting the Tribe from offering
Texas Hold’em (“Hold’em”) poker. The Tribe argues that
tribal sovereign immunity was not abrogated and that venue
was improper under the terms of the Tribal-State Gaming
Compact (“Compact”). We affirm because the Indian
Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”) severed tribal immun

Defendant Michael Bulgarelli owns a
boat that ran aground in Lake St. Clair, necessitating the services of a salvage ship to
tug it free by towing it several feet. Plaintiff St. Clair Marine Salvage, Inc., alleges that the
agreed-upon price was approximately $9,000, while Bulgarelli insists he was quoted a price
range of $1,000–$1,200. The district court denied St. Clair Marine’s m

Plaintiffs are borrowers who failed to purchase hazard insurance on their
mortgaged properties, as required by the terms of their loan agreements. Their
loan servicer, GMAC Mortgage LLC (“GMAC”), bought lender-placed insurance
(“LPI”) from Balboa Insurance Company and MeritPlan Insurance Company
(together, “Balboa”) at rates that were approved by regulators. GMAC then
sought re

1. J.J. is placed in Marshall's Care
J.J. was born on November 22, 2003. Within days of his birth, the trial court
declared J.J. a dependent of the court and the Agency placed him with Marshall.
In June 2004, Marshall informed the Agency that she wanted to adopt J.J.
Throughout his placement with Marshall, respondent Noreen Harmelink, the
primary social worker assigned

In this Engle1 progeny case, plaintiff Beatrice Skolnick recovered compensatory damages from two tobacco companies—Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The jury found for the defendants on claims of fraudulent concealment and conspiracy to commit fraudulent concealment.
1Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 So. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006).
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We confront a novel issue in a

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

This case arises from a dispute between plaintiffsappellants Centurion Properties III, LLC (“CPIII”) and SMI Group XIV, LLC (“SMI”) (together, “Plaintiffs”), and defendant-appellee Chicago Title Insurance Company (“Chicago Title”) over whether Chicago Title breached a duty of care to Plaintiffs, causing damages, when it recorded unauthorized liens on CPIII’s property. We have jurisdiction under 2

The state of Arizona had a coyote problem: Not the fourlegged furry kind that occasionally abscond with pets, but the kind who smuggle undocumented aliens into the United States for a fee. As part of the effort to combat the proliferation of coyotes, between 2001 and 2006 Arizona officials executed over twenty warrants to seize thousands of wire transfers that they claimed were highly likely to

In October 2010 Nasreen Quadri
bought an apartment in the West Ridge area of Chicago. At
some point thereafter, she learned that the police had investigated
a disturbance there, and so in January 2011 she visited
the apartment with her real estate agent and a locksmith.
Quadri’s agent called 911 after the group found Dzevad
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Hurem in the unit. Hurem told an

A disabled Louisiana inmate sued several of his doctors and jailers, claiming they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical condition in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The district court held perfunctorily that there was a genuine issue of material fact and denied qualified immunity, rejecting the magistrate judge’s contrary recommendat

In 2003, Schlegel and Stoltze contracted for Schlegel to log Stoltze’s property.
The logging contract contains a provision in which Schlegel agreed to procure liability
insurance indemnifying Stoltze from liability for any loss or injury arising from the
logging operations. Schlegelalsoagreed that indemnification “shall not be limited . . . by
immunity of suit of [Schlegel],

Following his arrest for firing a handgun at a Coast Guard helicopter, appellant John Watson, Jr. (“Watson”), who suffers from Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type, was found incompetent to stand trial and committed to the custody of the Attorney General for mental health treatment and evaluation. After Watson refused to take antipsychotic medication in order to render himself competent, the dis

Plaintiff Francis Brauner is a paraplegic incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Brauner resides in the R. E. Barrow Treatment Center, which is staffed at all times by doctors, nurses, and medical orderlies. A physician medical director oversees treatment and an assistant warden oversees the facility. Brauner’s immobility has led to the development of decubitus ulcers, more

On November 3, 2009, Appellant was elected the seventy-first Governor of Virginia. From the outset, he made economic development and the promotion of Virginia businesses priorities of his administration. The economic downturn preceding the election had taken a personal toll on Appellant. Mobo Real Estate Partners LLC (“Mobo”), a business operated by Appellant and his sister, was losing money on

The issue before the Court is whether, on the facts of this case viewed in the light most
favorable to Plaintiff-Appellant Reisha Simpson (“Ms. Simpson”), a reasonable juror could
find that Defendant-Appellee New York City Police Officer Kenson Nelson (“Officer
Nelson”) had probable cause to arrest Ms. Simpson for theft of services after she rebuffed
his flirtatious advances, enter

Plaintiff Rosalinda Baez brought claims against defendants JetBlue
Airways Corporation (“JetBlue”) and its former employee, Tiffany Malabet
(“Malabet”), arising out of an encounter at John F. Kennedy Airport (“JFK
Airport”), in which Baez was reported by Malabet for making an alleged bomb
2
threat and was then arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”). Baez
ar

2 The question in this case is whether a Connecticut rule restricting the
3 use of certain teeth‐whitening procedures to licenced dentists is unconstitutional
4 under the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses. Because we conclude that
5 there are any number of rational grounds for the rule, we affirm the judgment of
6 the District Court.
7 BACKGROUND
8 Under Connect

There were several individuals who served as Receiver for the City of Central Falls during the period of time preceding the filing of these cases and during the pendency of the cases. We shall simply make a generic reference to “the Receiver.” On November 14, 2013, by order of this Court, Allan M. Shine, Esq. (the Trustee) was substituted as Appellee in the place of the Receiver in all three of

Gregory Stokes (Stokes) appeals from an order issued by the Eighth Judicial
District Court, Cascade County, granting summary judgment in favor of Golden Triangle,
Inc. (Golden Triangle). After recovering workers’ compensation insurance benefits in
the amount of $207,147, Stokes brought a civil action against his employer, Golden
Triangle, seeking additional damages for injuries

These consolidated cases come before this Court on
appeal from a decision of the Providence County Superior Court, which contained three distinct
holdings. First, the Superior Court granted the Central Falls Receiver’s1 motion for partial
1 There were several individuals who served as Receiver for the City of Central Falls during th

Appellant Stephanie Ilene Lazarus, a 25-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), was charged and convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of Sheri Rasmussen, the wife of appellant’s former lover, John Ruetten. The 1986 crime was not solved until 2009, when a DNA profile obtained from a bite mark on Rasmussen’s arm was matched to appellant. At trial, the prosecution