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Where the pro se plaintiff has filed nine complaints in the last three years, most involving the same set of facts concerning a police detective’s alleged possession of plaintiff’s stolen property, the plaintiff is ordered to show cause why the ...

Although the habeas petitioner, an inmate incarcerated on a Virginia conviction, alleges that the detainer New York has lodged against him to initiate parole revocation proceedings adversely affects his custody classification in the Virginia prison system, this adverse effect does ...

Where a special probation provision in 18 U.S.C. § 3607(a) applies, under the language of the statute, to controlled substance “offense[s] described in” 21 U.S.C. § 844, this language means “offense under,” and the provision applies only to defendants convicted ...

Where the two military officers who supervised plaintiff civilian employees, who were Russian Jewish emigres hired to teach at the U.S. Army Russian Institute, made numerous comments indicating that the institute was permeated with an anti-Semitic and anti-Russian atmosphere,” and ...

The husband may not discharge in his chapter 7 bankruptcy his debt for his ex-wife’s attorney’s fees and 60 percent of the cost of their divorce. In this circuit, the question of whether or not a debt is in the ...

Although defendant attempts to challenge both the district judge’s order reversing the magistrate judge’s imposition of a special probation and the magistrate judge’s conviction and sentence on remand from the district court, the appellate court does not have jurisdiction to ...

Where defendant supplier of gas products sent a distributor’s agreement to plaintiff, who had purchased assets from a former distributor, with an attachment requesting the new distributor to, prior to a certain date, either conduct an audit of cylinders supplied ...

Where a state trooper attempted a roadside arrest of defendant for possession of more than 160 pounds of marijuana, and defendant resisted arrest, seized the trooper’s gun and escaped, defendant was properly convicted of using and carrying a firearm “during ...

Where the prosection based its case against petitioner, a farmer and academic accused of murdering his wife of 40 years, on the assumption that the burglary and rape crime scene and had been staged, and that the circumstantial evidence concerning ...

Where a Northern Virginia bookseller who sold sexually explicit materials received a letter from the U.S. Attorney advising her that if she continued to sell material in violation of the federal obscenity laws after June 1, 1992, she “should expect ...