all - Opinion Summaries

Amalgamated Sugar Co. v. Johanns

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Government Law
In a suit regarding the transfer of a sugar marketing allocation, summary judgment for USDA and the purported transferee is reversed where: 1) the...

Benson v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd.

Administrative Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Workers' Compensation
In a work-related personal injury, grant of total of $49,210 based on determination that two industrial injuries to petitioner's neck each caused 31...

Verizon California, Inc. v. Fed. Communications Comm'n

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law
In a challenge to an FCC order mandating that petitioner cease and desist the use of phone number port requests to contact defecting customers,...

Int'l Union, United Mine Workers of Am. v. Dep't of Labor

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
Petition for review of a final rule concerning mine rescue teams is granted where the final rule is inconsistent with the MINER Act insofar as it...

Biltmore Forest Broadcasting FM, Inc. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a broadcaster's suit under the Tucker Act alleging that the FCC breached an implied-in-fact contract that arose as the result of an auction for an...

Moore v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
A decision denying veteran's request for a higher disability rating is reversed and remanded where the Department of Veterans Affairs erred in failing...

Thomas v. Shewry

Administrative Law, Health Law, Remedies
In an action by plaintiff-podiatrist calling for defendant-director of Department of Health Care Services to reconsider plaintiff's application for...

Morongo Band of Mission Indians v. State Water Res. Control Bd.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In an administrative proceeding to revoke a water license, it does not violate the license holder's constitutional right to due process of law for the...

Dept. of Finance v. Com. On State Mandates

Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a case to brought by plaintiff-Department of Finance to overturn decision of defendant-Commission on State Mandates that the Public Safety Officers...

Sierra Club v. Wagner

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In conservation groups' challenges to the Forest Service's approval of two forest resource management projects in a national forest, a decision...