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Jandreau v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
A decision denying claimant service connection for residuals of a right-shoulder dislocation is remanded for further proceedings where: 1) although a...

Groff v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In cases involving challenges to denials of Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act (PSOBA) claims for death benefits to the relatives of pilots who were...

Rosario v. Diagonal Realty, LLC

Government Benefits, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A landlord's determination to accept federal "Section 8" rent subsidy payments is a "term and condition" of a lease executed with a rent-stabilized...

Estate of Tomeck

Government Benefits, Health Law
In action to recoup Medicaid payments and involving spousal impoverishment provisions of the Medicaid Act and its state counterpart, New York's...

Tennison v. Cal. Victim Comp. & Gov't Claims Bd.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Benefits
Denial of compensation benefits to petitioner after he was granted a federal writ of habeas corpus vacating his conviction for murder and releasing...

Zeigler Coal Co. v. Office of Worker's Comp. Programs

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
A coal company's petition for review of an award of black lung benefits to a mine worker is denied, and the award affirmed, over petitioner's...

Quiocson v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In proceedings brought by the wife of an individual who worked for the Department of the Navy at the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility at Subic Bay in...

Nelson v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
In an appeal from a decision denying a claim for an earlier effective date for claimant's post traumatic stress disorder, dismissal of the appeal as...

Alpough v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Family Law, Government Benefits, Military Law
Denial of a claim for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) surviving spouse benefits is vacated and remanded where the United States Court of Appeals...

Mattis v. State Universities Retirement System

Education Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
In a matter concerning benefits calculation for a law professor retired from Southern Illinois University under early retirement provisions, the...