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O'Connor-Spinner v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court's affirmance of the Social Security Administration's denial of claimant's 2004 application for Supplemental Security Income and...

Greenfield v. Daniels

Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death suit against a doctor, claiming that the decedent was negligently discharged by the doctor and by the hospital without a proper...

Cenzon-DeCarlo v. Mt. Sinai Hosp.

Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Civil Rights, Health Law
In an action claiming that plaintiff nurse was compelled by her supervisors to participate in a late-term abortion, suffering serious emotional harm...

Sameyah v. Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Ass'n

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's petition for peremptory writ of mandate seeking an order compelling the Board of Retirement (Board) of the Los Angeles County Employees...

Thomas v. Comm'r of the Soc. Sec. Admin.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court's order partially remanding a final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security, denying plaintiff's claim for disability benefits...

Schwalm v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court's dismissal of plaintiff's suit against an insurer's decision to terminate plaintiff's long-term disability benefits for complications...

Loye v. County of Dakota

Civil Rights, Environmental Law, Government Law, Health Law
In an action claiming that defendants failed to provide American Sign Language interpreters for all of the services they were providing to the public...

Smith v. Adventist Health System/West

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a physician's suit against defendant and its affiliates for summarily suspending his privileges at a hospital for a brief time in 2004 and for...

Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability, Remedies
In plaintiffs' suit for fraud, negligence, and strict products liability on failure to warn and design defect theories, claiming that exposure to...

San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd.

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a school district's petition for writ of review of an ALJ's conclusion that the claimant suffered a psychiatric injury caused predominantly by...