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Surrell v. California Water Serv. Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of Title VII and the exhaustion requirement, where a plaintiff is entitled to receive a right-to-sue letter from the EEOC, a plaintiff...

St. Margaret Mercy Healthcare Ctrs. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Petition for review of an NLRB finding that a hospital-owner interfered with the right of the hospital nurses to organize and discriminated against...

NLRB v. HQM of Bayside LLC.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
NLRB's application to enforce its order against defendant-nursing home operator is granted where: 1) substantial evidence supports the Board's finding...

Shafer v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of plaintiff's motion for attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) in a social security disability action is reversed where...

Hamilton v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision denying claimant Social Security disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income is affirmed where: 1) the record as a whole...

Warren v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment that a shipping company discriminated against an employee on the basis of a disability in violation of the Maine Human Rights Act is affirmed...

Torrech-Hernandez v. Gen. Electric Co

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging age discrimination, summary judgment for defendant-employer is affirmed where: 1) insomuch as the District Court did not consider...

Int'l B'hood of Teamsters v. N. Am. Airlines

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Section 2, First of the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. section 152 First, read in conjunction with other provisions of the RLA, does not impose a...

Lussier v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal by putative class representatives in wage dispute litigation, denial of their request for attorney's fees following a successful motion...

Day v. James Marine, Inc.

Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A ruling finding that a portion of the attorney's fees petitioner incurred in seeking workers' compensation did not shift to his employer under the...