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LG v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law
Decision by the administrative law judge (ALJ) denying plaintiff's application for Supplemental Security Income benefits is vacated and remanded as...

Malloy v. US Postal Service

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
The decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board affirming petitioner's removal from employment by the United States Postal Service (USPS) is...

Crickon v. Thomas

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a drug prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where the Bureau of Prisons failed to provide a rational explanation for...

S-Yong v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of an order removing petitioner from the U.S., the petition is granted where there was no record documentation supporting the...

Benyamin v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's asylum application on the ground that his daughter faced the threat of genital...

Bryant v. Comm'r. of Soc. Sec.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits
In an appeal from a district court's order awarding attorney's fees directly to plaintiffs rather than to their attorneys under the Equal Access to...

Parlak v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing petitioner from the U.S., the petition is denied where: 1) in determining that petitioner was...

Baur v. Wkrs.' Comp. Appeals Bd.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a petition for review of a worker's compensation judge's order granting petitioner's employer a credit against future worker's compensation...

Shipbuilders Coun. of Am. v. U.S. Coast Guard

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Remedies
In a challenge to the Coast Guard's regulatory scheme governing the issuance of coastwide endorsements to vessels, an order enjoining the regulations...

Western Radio Servs. Co. v. U.S. Forest Serv.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a Bivens action claiming that the Forest Service improperly delayed plaintiff's efforts to construct radio antennae, dismissal of the complaint is...