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Myles v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court's judgment upholding the ALJ's rejection of plaintiff's claim for disability insurance benefits is vacated and remanded in light of...

Scharff v. Raytheon Co. Short-Term Disability Plan

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action seeking benefits under plaintiffs' employer's disability plan, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where, even if the doctrine...

Gossett v. Czech

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant unlawfully took a portion of plaintiff-committed inmate's Department of Veterans Affairs...

Rizzo v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
A decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) denying petitioner's service-connection for an eye disability is affirmed as, absent some...

Kardos v. Harrison

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In wrongful death/survival action claiming defendant-doctor violated the standard of care by failing to refer decedent (cancer victim) for a biopsy or...

Alvarez-Torres v. Ryder Mem'l Hosp., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's action against a hospital and several physicians alleging violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA),...

Boca Raton Comm. Hosp. v. Tenet Health Care Corp.

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a RICO action claiming that because defendant health care corporation's Medicare charge increases were unrelated to real cost increases, the...

Nat'l Ass'n of Chain Drug Stores v. First DataBank, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
On appeal from class action settlements involving actions brought by purchasers of pharmaceutical drugs against publishers of drug pricing data, the...

Schreiber v. Philips Display Components Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action claiming that defendant breached its collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with, and violated fiduciary duties owed to, plaintiffs...

Hobbs v. Zenderman

Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendants violated plaintiff's rights under the Medicaid Act and denied him due process by rejecting...