all - Opinion Summaries

Ronald F. v. Department of Developmental Servs.

Government Benefits
In a petition for writ of administrative mandamus seeking to overturn the denial of his claim for services under the Lanterman Developmental...

Williams v. Snyder

Government Benefits, Military Law
In a veteran's benefits case, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) judgment affirming a decision by the Board of Veterans'...

Kays v. Snyder

Government Benefits, Military Law
In a veteran's appeal for disability compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder, United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims' denial of...

Patterson v. Commissioner of SSA

Government Benefits, Administrative Law
In an issue of first impression involving Social Security disability benefits claims, the district-court order affirming the Social Security...

Metro Machine Corporation v. DOWCP

Government Benefits, Administrative Law, Workers' Compensation
In a petition for review of an order of the Benefits Review Board affirming decisions of an ALJ granting a claim for medical benefits under the...

San Joaquin County Correctional v. County of San Joaquin

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
In an action over government pensions, challenging defendant county's elimination of its cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) contribution toward...

Gutierrez v. Colvin

Government Benefits
In an action for Social Security disability benefits, the district court's judgment, that a Social Security administrative law judge (ALJ) did not err...

RB&F Coal, Inc. v. Mullins

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law
In an action relief from an order of the Department of Labor's (DOL) Benefits Review Board (BRB) holding petitioner responsible for the payment of...

Armani v. Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. Co.

Government Benefits, ERISA
In an action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, challenging a denial of benefits under a long term disability insurance policy, the...

Marriage of Cassinelli

Government Benefits
In a case in which the trial court awarded ex-Wife her community property interest in ex-Husband's military retired pay in 1986, and in 2012 he became...