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Hepting v. AT&T Corp.
Section 802 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which grants immunity to telecommunication companies assisting government, is constitutional. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 30, 2011
Wright v. Incline Village General Improvement District
Under First Amendment, improvement district may exclude persons who do not own property within district boundaries from access to beaches that it owns. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 28, 2011
Drake v. Obama
Plaintiffs alleging that President Obama is ineligible for presidency based on lack of citizenship do not have standing due to insufficient injury-in-fact. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 23, 2011
Alston v. Read
Prison official does not have clearly established duty to review prisoner’s original court records beyond those in institutional file in determining prisoner’s overdetention claim. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 15, 2011
Quantification Settlement Agreement Cases
Agreement unconditionally obligating state to pay excess costs, but not granting enforcement rights to draw money from state treasury, does not violate California Constitution. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 8, 2011
Flynn v. Holder
National Organ Transplant Act’s ban on compensation for organs does not apply to bone marrow donation performed through peripheral blood stem apheresis method. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 2, 2011
U.S. v. Kortlander
Public has qualified common law right of access to materials filed in support of search warrant applications after government's investigation has ended. 		Constitutional Law Oct. 2, 2011
Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy by Congress renders suit challenging constitutionality of policy moot. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 29, 2011
Gonzales v. Arrow Financial Services LLC
Cumulative recovery is allowed under complementary federal and state statutes, which protect consumers from unlawful debt collection practices. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 25, 2011
Comite De Jornaleros De Redondo Beach v. City of Redondo Beach
Ordinance that bars individuals from standing on street to solicit employment from occupants of motor vehicles is facially unconstitutional restriction on speech. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 19, 2011
Chan v. Judicial Council of California
Court interpreters do not possess property interests in continued employment beyond terms imposed by statute to support due process claim. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 16, 2011
Johnson v. Poway Unified School District
School district does not violate teacher’s First Amendment rights when ordering him to refrain from religious speech during math class. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 14, 2011
Diaz v. Brewer
Preliminary injunction properly bars enforcement of Arizona law that would have prohibited state employees' same-sex partners from obtaining health care benefits. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 7, 2011
Carrico v. City and County of San Francisco
Residential landlords lack standing to bar enforcement of amendment to rent-stabilization ordinance because they failed to allege intent to violate statute. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 7, 2011
Stinnett v. Tam
Statute capping amount of noneconomic damages in medical negligence actions against health care providers is constitutional as rationally related to state’s interest. 		Constitutional Law Sep. 6, 2011
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital v. Washington State Dept. of Health
Repealed act does not provide congressional authorization for state certificate of need regulations for purposes of providing defense to dormant Commerce Clause claim. 		Constitutional Law Aug. 22, 2011
Ammons v. State of Washington Dept. of Social and Health Services
Hospital administrator is not entitled to qualified immunity from suit alleging due process violation where she knew about accusations of sexual abuse against staff member. 		Constitutional Law Aug. 18, 2011
Baldwin v. Sebelius
Challengers to 'individual mandate' provision in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act lack standing because they failed to allege injury in fact or genuine threat of prosecution. 		Constitutional Law Aug. 15, 2011
DISH Network Corp. v. FCC
Court properly finds statute adjusting timetable for providing high-definition formatted programming is content-neutral restriction. 		Constitutional Law Aug. 10, 2011
Alpha Delta Chi-Delta Chapter v. Reed
University's nondiscrimination policy, which prohibited organizations from restricting membership on specified bases, including religion, does not violate First Amendment. 		Constitutional Law Aug. 3, 2011
Hoye v. City of Oakland
City’s policy of enforcing ordinance only against anti-abortion speakers outside reproductive clinic is unconstitutional. 		Constitutional Law Jul. 29, 2011
Fisher v. Tucson Unified School District
Federal court supervision over school district operating under desegregation decree must continue despite adoption of plan that promised future improvements. 		Constitutional Law Jul. 20, 2011
Patel v. Kent School District
Fourteenth Amendment due process claim fails where claim alleged that teacher failed to supervise disabled student who had sexual encounters at school. 		Constitutional Law Jul. 13, 2011
Centro Familiar Cristiano Buenas Nuevas v. City of Yuma
City’s treatment of church as blighting entertainment district violates ‘equal terms’ provision of Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. 		Constitutional Law Jul. 13, 2011
Vandevere v. Lloyd
Regulation that limits number of salmon commercial fishers can harvest is not unconstitutional as taking of property without just compensation. 		Constitutional Law Jul. 11, 2011
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
California law restricting sale and rental of violent videogames to minors is unconstitutional content-based restriction on protected speech. 		Constitutional Law Jun. 27, 2011
Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club Pac v. Bennett
Matching funds scheme, which gave additional funds to publicly financed candidates, substantially burdens political speech by suppressing privately funded candidates. 		Constitutional Law Jun. 27, 2011
Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.
Vermont law prohibiting use of prescriber-identifying information by pharmaceutical manufacturers unconstitutionally burdens speech without adequate justification. 		Constitutional Law Jun. 23, 2011
Sander v. State Bar of California
Court must determine whether State Bar must produce information regarding bar exam passage rates after balancing interests under right of access to documents. 		Constitutional Law Jun. 12, 2011
Thalheimer v. City of San Diego
City ordinance limiting both campaign contributions and expenditures is properly determined unconstitutional as applied to independent committees. 		Constitutional Law Jun. 9, 2011
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