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Bowen v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case arising from a denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits from the Social Security Administration, a ruling in...

In re Needles Cases

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
After one of real party's phlebotomists was terminated for reusing needles to draw blood from patients, one patient acquired HIV and another may have...

Ellenberg v. New Mexico Military Inst.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
Before a party may seek relief in federal court alleging a violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) substantive...

Gambini v. Total Renal Care, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action setting forth Family Medical Leave Act and state discrimination law claims, denial of employee's motion seeking judgment as a matter of...

Admin. Comm. of the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Assocs.' Health & Welfare Plan v. Gamboa

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action brought by a family injured in a drunk driving accident, summary judgment for defendants, refusing to enforce a reimbursement...

Kirkendall v. Dep't of the Army

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Dismissal of disabled veteran's claims that he had been discriminated against in violation of the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) and the...

Skinner v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Denial of Supplemental Security Income is affirmed where: 1) petitioner received an adequate explanation of the consequences of waiving her personal...

Ex parte Blue

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law, Sentencing
A subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus in a capital case raising an Atkins claim is dismissed as an abuse of the writ where: 1) whether...

Petty v. County of Franklin, Ohio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by former inmate who sustained serious injury to his jaw during a fight with other inmates, alleging county...

Mr. I v. ME Sch. Admin. Dist. No. 55

Education Law, Health Law, Remedies
District court determination that a child qualified as a "child with a disability" eligible for special education and related services under the...