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Poindexter v. The State of Illinois

Health Law
In a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief arising out of the state's administrative efforts to recover from plaintiffs costs of their respective...

Consol. Coal Co. v. Office of Workers' Comp. Programs

Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Petition for review of a decision granting benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act is denied where the ALJ's determination was supported by...

Williams v. Peake

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
A decision denying claimant-veteran an effective date earlier than May 2, 1994, for an award of a 100 percent disability rating for schizophrenia is...

Garibay v. Hemmat

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice suit arising from a surgery performed by defendant-doctor, summary judgment for defendant is reversed based on defendant's...

California Consumer Health Care v. California Dep't of Managed Health Care

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
In an action challenging California Department of Managed Health Care's implementation of the Knox-Keene Health Care Services Plan Act of 1975,...

Maclin v. SBC-Ameritech

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against an employer alleging discrimination on the basis of disability, race and gender, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where:...

Shipman v. Hamilton

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that a police officer violated plaintiff's rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by...

Mendiondo v. Centinela Hosp. Med. Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by a nurse alleging that, following her complaints regarding false billing and reimbursement practices and substandard patient...

County of Los Angeles v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In a case involving Medicare reimbursement of indirect medical education expenses (IME) incurred by a public teaching hospital with an approved intern...

Wood v. Peake

Government Law, Health Law
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims committed legal error by failing to let a veteran's widow obtain assistance from the VA in obtaining a...