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Roberson v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims' affirmance of the Board of Veterans' Appeals' decision denying petitioner's claim for death and indemnity...

Strategic Hous. Fin. Corp. of Travis County v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Tax Law
In plaintiff's suit against the U.S. to recover its arbitrage rebate, the order of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) dismissing the suit for lack...

Bennett v. MIS Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In air traffic controllers' suit alleging personal injuries based on their exposure to toxic mold at the airport, district court's order dismissing...

Collins v. Plant Insulation Co.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In plaintiffs' suit for the death of a husband and father caused by mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure while working as a welder at a...

Bay City, Inc. v. Williams

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action seeking a declaratory judgment permitting a transfer and retention of plaintiff's mobile home in a city mobile housing park, judgment for...

Chaparro v. Ruiz-Hernandez

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a group of twenty-two contract employees against a Puerto Rican municipality and its officers, a grant of...

La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Fed. Emergency Mgmt. Agency

Administrative Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a case involving the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) administration of the home repair provisions of Section 408 of the Stafford Act,...

Crawford v. Silette

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In defendant's appeal from the district court's order granting a receiver's petition imposing an equitable lien on defendant's condominium and...

Castro v. US

Civil Rights, Government Law, Immigration Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) alleging that the government's negligence caused the wrongful deportation of plaintiff's son,...

Barnes-Wallace v. San Diego

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action claiming that the Boy Scouts' lease of public lands for its headquarters, accompanied by the Boy Scouts' prohibitions on atheism and...