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Payless ShoeSource, Inc. v. Travelers Cos., Inc.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against an insurer for coverage of a settlement in a wage and hour lawsuit, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where, by...

Kersey v. Wash. Metro. Area Trans. Auth.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a disability discrimination action alleging that defendant transit authority's refusal to promote plaintiff was the consequence of discrimination...

Wetzler v. Illinois CPA Soc'y & Found. Retirement Income Plan

Administrative Law, ERISA, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's ERISA suit against the Illinois CPA Society & Foundation Retirement Income Plan (Plan) for denying his request for a lump-sum...

White v. Nat'l Football League

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Sports Law
In a case involving whether, after NFL quarterback Michael Vick was convicted of dog fighting charges, his team was entitled to recover certain bonus...

Scruggs v. ExxonMobil Pension Plan

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action seeking retroactive pension and savings benefits allegedly owed to plaintiff under two of defendants' employee benefits plans,...

Williams v. Soc. Sec. Admin.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) affirming the Social Security Administration's removal of petitioner for his participation in...

Sunder v. U.S. Bancorp Pension Plan

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action seeking additional retirement benefits under defendant's retirement plan, an award of damages against defendant on the ground that...

Liberty Mut. ins. Co. v. Hurlbut

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a constitutional challenge to two amendments to the New York Workers' Compensation Law, the district court's judgment abstaining from the case is...

McCullough v. AEGON USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action alleging that various employee benefit plan fiduciaries breached their fiduciary duties to the plan and engaged in prohibited...

Schachter v. Citigroup, Inc.

Class Actions, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a putative class action against Citigroup by its former employees challenging the company's forfeiture provision of a voluntary employee incentive...