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Aid for Women v. Foulston

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies
Minors possess a constitutional right to informational privacy. Entry of a preliminary injunction in a challenge to a state's reporting statute is...

Bloom v. Metro Heart Group of St. Louis, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant-employer on a retaliatory discharge claim and claimed violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is affirmed...

Sch. Bd. of Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 11 v. Renollet

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law
A judgment on the administrative record determining that a disabled student had received a free appropriate public education (FAPE) except with regard...

Robinson v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant, insurer and plan administrator, in an ERISA case challenging a termination of disability benefits is reversed where:...

Gomez v. St. Jude Med. Daig Div. Inc.

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Judgment as a matter of law under Rule 50(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for defendants in a product liability case arising from the use...

N. Coast Women's Care Med. Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Summary adjudication for plaintiff on a constitutional free exercise of religion affirmative defense is vacated in an Unruh Act action against a...

Xie v. Immigration & Naturalization Serv.

Health Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of the denial of petitioner's application for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where the immigration judge did not err...

Gibbs v. CIGNA Corp.

ERISA, Elder Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where an ERISA plan beneficiary's benefits have vested, the summary plan description in effect at the time the benefits vest governs for purposes of...

Genord v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Michigan

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
Denial of a motion to dismiss brought by defendant, health care corporation, as to a claim it had fraudulently denied plaintiffs-gynecologists' claims...

Ferraro v. Kellwood Co.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant-employer in an employment-discrimination lawsuit is affirmed where plaintiff failed to rebut defendant's proferred...