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PITSKER v. OFFICE OF PERSONELL MGMT.

Government Benefits
5 USC 8337(a) does not restrict eligibility for enhanced disability payments to only those law enforcement officers who meet the minimum age and...

CRAWFORD & CO. v. APFEL

Government Benefits
Under Title II, 42 USC 405, of the Social Security Act, an employer or the employer's worker's compensation carrier may not intervene in an employee's...

MCGARRAH v. HARTFORD LIFE INS. CO.

ERISA, Government Benefits
Videotape of plaintiff working and medical records documenting back condition improvement constituted substantial evidence that he was no longer...

FIELDS v. APFEL

Government Benefits
Commissioner acted reasonably under of 20 CFR 404.408(a)(2)(i) in reducing claimant's disability insurance benefits because she was receiving other...

HANNON v. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

Government Benefits
The Merit Systems Protection Board correctly determined that the petitioner was not a law enforcement officer under the six criteria of Bingaman v....

TX COMMUNITY BANK v. STATE OF MISSOURI DEPT. OF SOC. SERV.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
State was entitled to immunity under the Eleventh Amendment on plaintiff's claim for injunctive relief, seeking in part to garnish Medicaid funds,...

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYST. v. SHALALA

Government Benefits, Health Law
The plain language of 42 USC 1395 l(a)(2), et seq. mandates the separation of ambulatory surgical, radiology and diagnostic services from all other...

BURKS v. APFEL

Government Benefits
A putative "good faith" spouse is not entitled to recover a deceased spouse's social security benefits where the putative spouse subsequently...

CANTRELL v. APFEL

Government Benefits
Administrative law judge did not err in accepting a one-time consultants' evaluations and rejecting the treating physician's evaluation of...

ROANE v. US

Government Benefits
The decision in Small v. United States, 158 F.3d 576 (Fed. Cir. 1998), which holds that the Air Force-s division of its Promotion Review Boards into...