More than fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held that the public disclosure of “who is being hired, who is putting up the money, and how much” they are spending to influence legislation is “a vital national interest.” United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612, 625-26 (1954). Today, we consider a constitutional challenge to Congress’ latest effort to ensure greater transparency, the Honest

A non-profit group known as EMILY’s List promotes abortion rights and supports prochoice Democratic women candidates. It challenges several new Federal Election Commission regulations that restrict how non-profits may spend and raise money to advance their preferred policy positions and candidates. EMILY’s List argues that the regulations violate the First Amendment. The First Amendment, as in

In June 2006, Albert Snyder instituted this diversity action in the District of Maryland against Westboro Baptist Church, Incorporated (the "Church"), and several of its members (collectively, the "Defendants"). Snyder’s lawsuit is predicated on two related events: a protest the Defendants conducted in Maryland near the funeral of Snyder’s son Matthew (an enlisted Marine who tragically died in

Dr. Thomas Abbey petitions this court for a writ of certiorari to review an order by the trial court denying his motion for summary judgment. He contends that the motion should have been granted because the statute of limitations expired before the plaintiff filed suit against him for medical negligence. We conclude that the alleged error in computing the time for filing a lawsuit did not deprive

Plaintiff Sara Cho filed a representative class action against Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc. (Seagate) for falsely overstating in advertising and packaging the storage capacity of computer disc drives that it manufactures for public sale. The case was settled and David Klausner objected to the settlement. Klausner argued the class definition was imprecise and misleading, and that there w

Plaintiff Nancy Lewis’s pro se complaint for copyright infringement charged that defendant, New Mexico newspaper Rio Grande Sun, ran a front page story she had written without crediting her authorship and published another article with an editorial change she had not approved.1 The district court referred the case to a magistrate judge who recommended that it be dismissed for lack of jurisdic

In January 2007, Gregory J. Maddalone, the appellee, was fired from his “Administrator VI” job with the Maryland Department of Transportation (“MDOT”), the appellant. As he acknowledges, that job was the last in a series of patronage positions he held during the administration of Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., for whom he had worked and campaigned.

Maddalone challenged his termina

In January 2007, Gregory J. Maddalone, the appellee, was fired from his “Administrator VI” job with the Maryland Department of Transportation (“MDOT”), the appellant. As he acknowledges, that job was the last in a series of patronage positions he held during the administration of Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., for whom he had worked and campaigned.

Maddalone challenged his termina

Brian Prowel appeals the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of his former employer, Wise Business Forms, Inc. Prowel sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, alleging that Wise harassed and retaliated against him because of sex and religion. The principal issue on appeal is whether Prowel has marshaled sufficient facts for his claim o

This appeal concerns the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (the "FCA"), 31 U.S.C. § 3730, which allow whistleblowers (called "relators") to bring certain fraud claims on behalf of the United States. Footnote The relators in this case, the plaintiffs-appellants Mark Duxbury and Dean McClellan (together, the "Relators"), alleged that defendant-appellee Ortho Biotech Products, L.P. ("OBP")

Gelsa A. Valenzuela appeals the entry of final summary judgment in favor of GlobeGround North America, LLC (“GlobeGround”). Because we conclude that Valenzuela failed to establish a prima facie case of gender discrimination and further failed to present evidence that GlobeGround’s legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for terminating her employment were pretextual, we affirm the entry of sum

This case arises from Debbie Krenkel’s slip and fall at the Atlantis Hotel in The Bahamas. She and her husband 1 George appeal the district court’s dismissal of their claims, based on a forum-selection clause the Krenkels signed upon checkin at the hotel. For the following reasons, we affirm the dismissal.

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In May 2007, the Krenkels traveled from New Jersey, where they resi

In 1986, professional model Russell Christoff was paid $250 to pose for a photograph to be used in Canada on a label for bricks of coffee. Sixteen years later, Christoff saw his face on a jar of Taster‟s Choice instant coffee in the United States and discovered that his image had been used without his consent on millions of labels sold internationally for the preceding five years. Christoff file

In this defamation action, plaintiff David N. Missner appeals from an order in which the circuit court converted defendant Robert A. Clifford’s motion to dismiss under section 2- 619(a)(9) of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (735 ILCS 5/2-619(a)(9) (West 2006)) into a motion for summary judgment under section 2-1005 of the Code (735 ILCS 5/2-1005 (West 2006)), and subsequently granted summary

Plaintiff Elizabeth Sanchez was a high-ranking employee of the County of San Bernardino (the County), widely regarded as a “rising superstar.” Among her other accomplishments, she negotiated a labor contract with the Safety Employees Benefits Association (the Association), the labor union responsible for representing sheriff‟s deputies. Thereafter, however, she and James Erwin, the president

The present appeal comes to this Court by way of discretionary review from an action asserting negligence brought by Appellees, Orville Green, Catherine Green and Green's Motorcycle Salvage, Inc., against Appellants, Caneyville Volunteer Fire Department (hereinafter CVFD), the City of Caneyville and CVFD Fire Chief, Anthony Clark. At the outset, we note that the City of Caneyville was entitled to

Plaintiffs-Appellants Marylon Marie Boyd, Isabel Gonzales, and Kanani Boyd (the Boyd Family), who are the mother and daughters of Cammerin Boyd (Cammerin), appeal the district court’s judgment in favor of Defendants- Appellees, the City and County of San Francisco and police officers James O’Malley and Timothy Paine (collectively, San Francisco). The Boyd Family alleges that the district court

This is an appeal from the denial of appellant City of Elsa's (the City) plea to the jurisdiction and the granting of summary judgment in favor of appellee Joel Homer Gonzalez. By three issues, the City contends that the trial court erred in denying its plea because Gonzalez failed to establish jurisdiction under the Texas Whistleblower Act, the Texas Public Information Act, (1) and the Texas Ope

This case presents the question whether the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment prohibit a State from imposing a generally applicable sales and use tax on the distribution of religious materials by a religious organization.




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California's Sales and Use Tax Law requires retailers to pay a sales tax "[f]or the privilege of selling tangible personal property

Appellant Russell A. Puls Jr. appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees Landmark Community Newspapers, Inc. and Landmark Community Newspapers of Colorado, Inc. (collectively referred to as LCNI) in a dispute over their alleged breach of a severance of employment agreement with Mr. Puls and intentional interference with his at-will employment contract with Trade

Under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA), 43 P.S. §§ 951-963, employers with four or more employees are prohibited from discriminating against their employees on the basis of sex. See 43 P.S. §§ 954 (defining employer), 955 (listing “unlawful discriminatory practices”). At common law, an employer may terminate an at-will employee for any reason unless that reason violates a clear

The plaintiff, Carol A. Warfield, the former chief of anesthesiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (BIDMC), filed this action in the Superior Court against her employers, alleging gender-based discrimination and retaliation in violation of G.L. c. 151B, and factually related common-law claims. The BIDMC and the other defendants moved to dismiss Warfield's complaint and compel arbit

In 1998, despite the fact that police had obtained DNA evidence excluding him as the perpetrator, Edmund Burke was arrested for murder and forced to spend a total of forty-two days in jail. Burke subsequently filed a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a panoply of those involved in the investigation of the crime, and after years of litigation, a federal jury found Massachusetts S

Appellant, Jonathan A. Lawrence, appeals from the trial court’s judgment in favor of Geico General Insurance Company (“Geico”). In four issues, Lawrence alleges that Geico’s claim is barred by the statute of limitations because Geico did not diligently pursue service of citation, that the trial court erroneously admitted a police report, and that there was no evidence that Lawrence’s veh

This is an appeal from the denial of appellant City of Elsa's (the City) plea to the jurisdiction and the granting of summary judgment in favor of appellee Joel Homer Gonzalez. By three issues, the City contends that the trial court erred in denying its plea because Gonzalez failed to establish jurisdiction under the Texas Whistleblower Act, the Texas Public Information Act, (1) and the Texas Open