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Ortega v. Sacramento County Dep't of Health & Human Serv.

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case against Child Protective Services for the release of a minor who was later stabbed by her father, summary judgment for defendant based on...

Tosi v. City of Fresno

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies
In an action challenging a preliminary injunction order prohibiting the county from enforcing certain portions of its ordinances regulating scrap...

California Consumer Health Care v. California Dep't of Managed Health Care

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
In an action challenging California Department of Managed Health Care's implementation of the Knox-Keene Health Care Services Plan Act of 1975,...

Limestone Dev. Corp. v. Village of Lemont

Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit by a landowner alleging that a municipality and other public bodies acting together with another landowner constituted an enterprise whose...

Shipman v. Hamilton

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that a police officer violated plaintiff's rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by...

Mendiondo v. Centinela Hosp. Med. Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by a nurse alleging that, following her complaints regarding false billing and reimbursement practices and substandard patient...

Charles v. Grief

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 racial discrimination and employment retaliation suit brought by plaintiff whose job as a systems analyst with the Texas...

Donelon v. Louisiana Div. of Admin. Law

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Insurance Law
In a declaratory judgment action brought by the Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Louisiana attacking the constitutionality of a Louisiana...

County of Los Angeles v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In a case involving Medicare reimbursement of indirect medical education expenses (IME) incurred by a public teaching hospital with an approved intern...

Wood v. Peake

Government Law, Health Law
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims committed legal error by failing to let a veteran's widow obtain assistance from the VA in obtaining a...