all - Opinion Summaries

Siwek v. Police Bd.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
In the matter of a Chicago police department officer who was discharged by the Police Board for violating department rules prohibiting other...

Hackwell v. US

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action challenging a regulation that interprets the attorney's fee limitations set forth by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA),...

Fedosseeva v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of asylum and withholding of removal is denied where a claim of statelessness is not grounds for asylum, and...

Wisniewski v. Bd. of Educ. of Weedsport Cent. Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Education Law
In suit over suspension of student who, using his parents' home computer, displayed via Internet instant messaging an icon depicting the shooting of a...

Lewis v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal arising from a denial of an application for supplementary security income and a finding that claimant was not disabled, summary judgment...

Sherman v. Sec. & Exch. Comm'n

Administrative Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Debt Collection, Oil and Gas Law, Securities Law
A decision reversing a bankruptcy court's denial of a motion brought by the SEC to dismiss debtors' bankruptcy petition is reversed where, although...

Lary v. US Postal Serv.

Administrative Law, Contracts, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Upon petition for rehearing of an original opinion which held that the United States Postal Service (USPS) materially breached its settlement...

Jandreau v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
A decision denying claimant service connection for residuals of a right-shoulder dislocation is remanded for further proceedings where: 1) although a...

Groff v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In cases involving challenges to denials of Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act (PSOBA) claims for death benefits to the relatives of pilots who were...

US v. BDO Seidman, LLP

Administrative Law, Evidence, Tax Law
In a suit by the IRS to enforce administrative summonses against an accounting firm that allegedly failed to disclose potentially abusive tax shelters...