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Indiana State Dist. Council of Laborers & Hod Carriers Pension & Welfare Fund v. Omnicare, Inc.

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Securities Law
In plaintiff-investors' lawsuit against defendant, nation's largest provider of pharmaceutical care for the elderly, district court's dismissal is...

Merryfield v. Jordan

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action concerning the conditions of plaintiff's involuntary confinement at a state hospital, dismissal of the complaint is...

A.M. v. Albertsons, LLC.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action against her employer under the state Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), trial court's judgment in favor of plaintiff and...

Jensen v. Franchise Tax Bd.

Constitutional Law, Health Law, Tax Law
In plaintiff's challenge to the constitutionality of the Mental Health Services Act, which expands funding for mental health services for all...

T.Y. v. N.Y. City Dep't of Educ.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Health Law
In an action for tuition reimbursement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA), summary judgment for defendant...

In re: Diet Drugs Prod. Liability Litig.

Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In multidistrict mass tort litigation concerning appetite suppressant drugs commonly known as fen-phen, district court's final award of attorneys'...

Harper v. Lawrence County

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to plaintiff's decedent's medical needs while he was in jail, denial of...

Loeffler v. Staten Island Univ. Hosp.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action alleging that defendant hospital failed to provide interpreting services to a patient and his wife (both deaf), so that their two...

Ekstrand v. Sch. Dist. of Somerset

Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's lawsuit against her former employer claiming that school district failed to accommodate her seasonal effective disorder and...

Krout v. Goemmer

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force by officers during an arrest, denial of summary judgment to defendants on qualified...