all - Opinion Summaries

Porter v. Knickrehm

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Arkansas's procedures governing admission to a human development center (HDC) were constitutionally adequate. Further, intervenors did not have...

Smith v. Clark

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Neb. Rev. Stat. section 81-8,239.08 does not provide contracted medical service providers the full scope of protection offered by the Nebraska State...

Silver v. Executive Car Leasing Long-Term Disability Plan

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision upholding the denial of plaintiff's claim for disability benefits under an ERISA-governed policy is reversed where a finding that plaintiff...

Moore v. Lafayette Life Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
Judgment for defendants, an insurer and employer, on plaintiff-s ERISA claims, an award of partial attorney's fees and costs, and the imposition of...

Loughlin v. Loughlin

Family Law, Health Law
An order in a dissolution action specifying that a husband's visitation with the parties' children be supervised, that he submit to drug testing, and...

Amgen, Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent case involving patents directed to recombinant DNA technology relating to the production of a certain hormone, a judgment of the district...

Karlix v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
An order affirmed a denial of claimant's applications for social security benefits is affirmed over claims that an ALJ erred by: 1) failing to...

Adamson v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-plan administrator in an ERISA case alleging wrongful denial of benefits and a breach of fiduciary duty is...

Caman v. Cont'l Airlines, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Transportation
Summary judgment for an airline in an action under the Warsaw Convention is affirmed where the district court correctly ruled in favor of the airline...

Kaucher v. County of Bucks

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a corrections officer and his wife against a county and employees responsible for the operation of a...