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Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc.

Government Benefits, Health Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In consolidated cases challenging statutory Medicaid rate reductions by the state of California that were approved by the Centers for Medicare and...

Sauer v. Dep't of Education

Government Benefits, Government Contracts, Administrative Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a suit by a California state agency seeking review of an arbitration award that made it liable to a blind vendor for failing to sue the federal...

Fowlkes v. Thomas

Government Benefits
On a prisoner's postjudgment motion for an order directing the Social Security Administration (SSA) to re-tender a check for retroactive supplemental...

Hutcherson v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration

Elder Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that Arizona's Medicaid agency had no right at all to recover from an annuity purchased by a...

National Organization of Veterans' Advocates, Inc. v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
In a challenge to a rule issued by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with respect to claims for service-connected disability benefits for...

US v. Aguasvivas-Castillo

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Government Benefits
On appeal by an owner of a supermarket chain convicted for food stamp fraud and money laundering, the district court's application of sentence...

Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Oil and Gas Law, Workers' Compensation
In an appeal from a judgment of the appeals court vacating an administrative dismissal of respondent's Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) claim...

Hancock v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court affirming an administrative denial of appellant's application for SSI, judgment is affirmed where...

Chandler v. Commissioner of Social Security

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
In an appeal from an order of remand by the district court following the appeal of an administrative denial of social security benefits, order is...

Guillory v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
In a disabled veteran's suit for additional special monthly compensation for aid and attendance retroactive to the date of his service-related...