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NEVADA DEP'T OF HUMAN RES. v. HIBBS

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Employees of the state of Nevada may recover money damages in the event of the state's failure to comply with the family-care provision of the Family...

DEP'T OF FIN. v. COMM'N ON STATE MANDATES (KERN HIGH SCH. DIST.)

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
Public school districts and a county that participate in certain state and federally-funded programs are not constitutionally-entitled to...

US v. MCGOVERN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Benefits, Sentencing
Medicare and Medicaid audits had an adequate link to ensuing criminal fraud and obstruction proceedings, and thus were during the course of the...

ORTCO CONTRACTORS, INC v. CHARPENTIER

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Government Benefits, Workers' Compensation
The Benefits Review Board used an improper evidentiary standard in reviewing an ALJ's initial determination, which had correctly found that a presumed...

CARDYN v. COMM'R OF SOC. SEC.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
In the absence of any facts demonstrating that plaintiff was prevented in some extraordinary way from timely asserting her rights, equitable tolling...

PHARM. RESEARCH & MFRS. OF AM. v. WALSH

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Remedies
A preliminary injunction preventing implementation of a state program reducing prescription drug prices for state residents was improper, where an...

LOWRY v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Benefits
A lawyer who frequently represents social security claimants could not bring a writ of mandamus to have an Administrative Law Judge investigated and...

KRISHNAN v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
Denial of a non-citizen's application for disability benefits under the Social Security Act is affirmed based on the pre-remand administrative record,...

NAT'L ORG. OF VETERANS' ADVOCATES, INC. v. SEC'Y OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
38 C.F.R. section 3.304, providing that evidence other than veteran service records may be sufficient to establish a stressor in claims for service...

MILLER v. TEXAS TECH UNIV. HEALTH SCIENCES CTR.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A state-run university was entitled to sovereign immunity from an administrator/professor's Rehabilitation Act section 504 claim, and the university...