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Although the district court properly granted the union member summary judgment on her claim that her intra-union discipline for slander (for reporting a work-related accident that she believed involved alcohol) violated her free speech rights under the Labor Management Reporting ...

Where defendant agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, reserving the right to argue at sentencing that the substance in question was cocaine powder, not cocaine base, in exchange for the government’s dismissal of two possession counts ...

Although the claims administrator initially informed plaintiff that it appeared his proposed dental surgery would be a covered expense under his health insurance plan and in fact paid the hospital and surgeon, plaintiff cannot rely on a theory of estoppel ...

Where the district court earlier dismissed this plaintiff’s February 1991 pro se petition to vacate an arbitration award for defendant securities firm on plaintiff’s complaint about the firm’s treatment of his “Special Memorandum Account,” the earlier dismissal operates as a ...

Execution Of Search Warrant Although plaintiffs, who were not named in a search warrant but were personally searched during execution of the warrant, contend that defendant police officers violated their Fourth Amendment rights by obtaining and executing a “no-knock” search ...

Although plaintiff contends her employer, a continuing education accrediting council, differentially disciplined her when it fired her for engaging in outside consulting work that posed a conflict of interest, the district court concludes that plaintiff has failed to prove that ...

Although the chapter 7 debtor has a contingent remainder interest in the corpus of two testamentary spendthrift trusts established by his grandparents, and may be entitled to a distribution of corpus when conditions precedent to termination of the trusts are ...

Although the creditor, who was a passenger in the car debtor drove into a locomotive, obtained a judgment against debtor which included a finding based on discovery admissions, that debtor was under the influence of alcohol or narcotics at the ...

Where the testator altered his typewritten will, prepared by a lawyer and properly executed, by marking handwritten lines through several provisions leaving property to his heirs, and wrote the word “delete” with his initials and the date alongside the lineations, ...

Where the sheriff refused to enforce pretrial detinue seizure orders by breaking into the debtor’s home to seize the property in question, the trial court erred in issuing a writ of mandamus ordering the sheriff to take this enforcement action ...