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Ontiveros v. Flores

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit for fraudulent transfer, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with a contract, conspiracy, conversion, and fraud, a court of...

Planned Parenthood of Cent. Texas v. Sanchez

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies
Following litigation prompted by the Texas Legislature's passage of legislation barring distribution of federal family planning money to entities that...

Bhd. of Maint. of Way Employees v. CSX Transp., Inc.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a suit alleging that railroad carriers violated collective bargaining rights by substituting contractual leave for leave under the Family and...

Bd. of Educ. of Fayette County v. L.M.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Health Law, Remedies
In a suit brought by a child with a disability within the meaning of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a judgment of the...

Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Partial summary judgment to the EEOC and a refusal to alter a judgment following a jury verdict awarding employee backpay, frontpay, and punitive...

Smith v. James Thompson & Co.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
The previously established rule, that a claimant who suffers a work-related injury is entitled to disability compensation based only on a treating...

Travis v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's disability-insurance and supplemental security income (SSI) claims under the Social Security Act is affirmed where: 1)...

Wood v. Valley Forge Life Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a coverage case arising from a drug and alcohol overdose death, partial summary against an insurer and entry of judgment against it for accidental...

DKT Int'l, Inc. v. US Agency for Int'l Dev.

Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Health Law
A contractual provision conditioning public funding to private organizations for HIV/AIDS relief on the certification that they have a policy opposing...

FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Inc. v. Carefirst of Maryland, Inc.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's dismissal of appellant's counterclaim to cancel trademarks registered by appellee is affirmed where the Board did...