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DaimlerChrysler v. Aakala

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a worker's compensation case stemming from an industrial accident in an employer's paint shop, a decision awarding an employee compensation is...

Pafford v. Sec'y of Health & Human Servs.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
An adverse decision on a claim under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that certain vaccinations resulted in a child's onset of systemic...

US v. Weber

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Sentencing
When the government seeks to restrict a defendant's liberty through a term of supervised release, it has the burden of proving that a particular...

Farlow v. Wyndham Int'l, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case arising from a slip and fall accident at a hotel, plaintiff's motion to proceed in forma pauperis is granted, and service of process shall...

Smith v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Elder Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
A decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims reversing in part a decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals holding that certain...

Magallon v. Livingston

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Sentencing
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case brought by an inmate convicted of capital murder challenging Texas's lethal injection execution method on Eight...

Diaz-Fonseca v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Education Law, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies
In suits where the essence of the claim is one stated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for denial of free and appropriate public...

Liberty Nat'l Life Ins. Co. v. Bailey

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
An order awarding attorneys' fees and costs under Florida Statutes section 627.428 to plaintiff in a breach of contract suit against her insurer is...

Garbacik v. Wal-Mart Transp., LLC

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
A petition for a writ of certiorari to review a denial of petitioner's motion for protective order, which sought to prohibit further discovery in a...

Jackson v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
An administrative law judge's (ALJ) order on the issues of compensability and notice under Florida's Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation...