all - Opinion Summaries

Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment for defendants is affirmed, where: 1) The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act, the...

Acosta v. Brown

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
Judgment for defendants on writ of mandate seeking to direct the Governor and other state officials to ensure in specified ways that plaintiffs and...

Deloach v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims correctly concluded that remand rather than reversal is the appropriate remedy, where the Board of Veterans'...

Mary Jo C. v. New York State and Local Retirement System

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment of dismissal of plaintiff's claims brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for defendants' refusal to waive filing deadlines...

Kirkendall v. Halliburton, Inc.

Administrative Law, Contracts, ERISA
Judgment dismissing plaintiffs' class action claims for clarification of the benefits to which they might be entitled in the future under their ERISA...

Osterweil v. Bartlett

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
The following question is certified to the New York Court of Appeals: Is an applicant who owns a part-time residence in New York but makes his...

Dichter-Mad Family Partners v. US

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
District court properly dismissed plaintiffs' claims of negligence against the SEC and the US for their losses in the Madoff Ponzi scheme, where: 1)...

Patel v. Napolitano

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In action by federal inmate under 8 USC section 1503(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for a judgment declaring him a United States national,...

Zimmerman v. Norfolk Southern Corporation

Injury & Tort Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence
In negligence action against defendant-railroad, summary judgment for defendant is: 1) reversed on plaintiff's failure to warn claim where his...

Alaska Survival v. Surface Transportation Board

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Transportation
Petition for review challenging the Surface Transportation Board's decision to grant an exemption and authorize Alaska Railroad Corporation to...