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Although plaintiff inmate had stored his legal materials on several contraband computer disks while making unauthorized use of prison computers, the fact that he chose to create his legal materials in this fashion, rather than using a pencil or typewriter ...

Where the trial court at petitioner’s North Carolina murder trial, in describing available aggravating circumstances, instructed the jury in determining whether the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel” to consider whether the murder was “particularly heinous or atrocious or ...

Where plaintiff bank has incurred certain costs for conducting an environmental cleanup on its property used by debtor, these costs can be given administrative expenses priority under 11 U.S.C. § 503(b)(1)(A). The issues before the court center on the environmental ...

Where the pro se debtor seeks leave to appeal in forma pauperis from a decision upholding objections of the trustee and a creditor to exemptions claimed by debtor, the district court finds that debtor is not impoverished and is not ...

Although the national park ranger who arrested defendant on the Blue Ridge Parkway did not follow Virginia statutory procedures for the withdrawal of blood for a blood analysis test, those procedures are inapplicable where the DUI offense for which defendant ...

Where the city had a lease agreement with several developers to develop a 350-acre trace of land in South Florida which called for the developers to improve the land and then lease it back from the city for recreational facilities, ...

Where the sheriff fired both a chief deputy and a staff assistant for special projects on the ground that their jobs were policymaking positions for which political affiliation mattered, the sheriff is not entitled to summary judgment in the terminated ...

Where the county board of supervisors waited until after the landowners had filed a notice of appeal from the order entered in the condemnation proceeding to withdraw the condemnation proceedings and offer to pay the landowners’ costs, this attempt at ...

Although the bank customer, who arranged an overseas wire transfer of funds from defendant bank to a Dutch bank, testified that he did not read the terms of the transfer request agreement, which required the customer to assume the risk ...

Where the insured was run off the road by a truck on U.S. Route 220 in West Virginia, but there was no contact between the truck and the insured’s car and the truck driver did not return to the scene ...