all - Opinion Summaries

CareFirst of Maryland Inc. v. First Care, P.C.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Summary judgment for defendants, a small group of family care physicians, in a trademark infringement and dilution action is affirmed in an action...

Seitz v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendants regarding their denial of plaintiff's ERISA claim for disability benefits is reversed where defendant plan...

Gibson v. Weber

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Summary judgment for defendants on claims they were deliberately indifferent to diabetic inmate plaintiff's medical needs is affirmed where plaintiff...

US v. Georgia

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Insofar as Title II of the American with Disabilities Act creates a private cause of action for damages against states for conduct that actually...

Heiko v. Colombo Sav. Bank

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Elimination of bodily waste is a "major life activity" within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Summary judgment for...

ADAPT of Philadelphia v. Philadelphia Hous. Auth.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Appeals from litigation involving the statutory obligation of defendant to furnish housing for disabled tenants are dismissed for lack of jurisdiction...

Wertish v. Krueger

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for police officer defendant on civil rights and state law claims involving diabetic plaintiff's traffic arrest and allegedly...

Team Nursing Servs., Inc. v. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Soc'y

Contracts, Health Law, Immigration Law, International Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant in a contract dispute, regarding plaintiff's recruitment of foreign nurses to work in defendant's nursing homes, is...

Chen v. US Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Health Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of the denial of an application for asylum and withholding of removal is dismissed in part for lack of jurisdiction, and denied in...

US v. Baldovinos

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Sentencing
Defendant's convictions and sentence for drug and firearm offenses are affirmed over his claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel...