Petitioner, James Dawson, retired from his position as a U.S. Marshal on March 31, 2008. Steager v. Dawson at 2. Dawson currently receives retirement income from the Federal Employee Retirement System (“FERS”). Id.
The State of West Virginia...
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The Constitution requires that the United States population be counted every ten years. New York v. United States Department of Commerce (“N.Y. v. Department”), at 2. The Census Act gives the Department of Commerce (“Department”) and the Secretary of...
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The University of Texas at Austin (“UT”) is a public education institution, authorized by the Texas Constitution and backed by state and federal funding. See Fisher v. Univ. of Tex. at Austin, 631 F.3d 213, 226 (5th Cir. 2011). UT guarantees...
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Curtis Flowers (“Flowers”) has been tried six times in relation to four 1996 murders in Winona, Mississippi. Flowers v. State at 1091. Flowers’ first two trials (“Flowers I” and “Flowers II”) each resulted in a guilty verdict and death sentence, but...
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Catholic Social Services (“CSS”) was established in 1797 in Philadelphia (“the City”), Pennsylvania as a religious non-profit foster care service. Fulton v. City of Philadelphia at 12. Although affiliated with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, CSS is...
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This case begins with a loan dispute between Valerie Hawkins and Janice Patterson, as guarantors, and the Community Bank of Raymore, (“Raymore”), as creditor. See Hawkins v. Cmty. Bank of Raymore, 761 F.3d 937, 939 (8th Cir. 2015). Hawkins and...
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In 2005, Carolyn M. Kloeckner (“Kloeckner”) stopped going to work as a Senior Investigator for the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration in the St. Louis office. Kloeckner v. Solis, 639 F.3d 834, 834 (8th Cir. 2011)....
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Landlord-tenant law governs the rental of commercial and residential property. It is composed primarily of state statutes and common law. A number of states have based their statutory law on either the Uniform Residential Landlord And...
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On November 14, 2011, Simon Tam filed an application to register the name of an Asian-American dance-rock band, THE SLANTS, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). In Re Simon Shiao Tam, 808 F.3d 1321, at 10–11 (2015). Tam and his...
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In 2008, a woman filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). See EEOC v. Mach Mining Inc., 738 F.3d 171, 173 (7th Cir. 2013). The woman alleged that Mach Mining, LLC (“MM”) denied her a job because of her sex...