all - Opinion Summaries

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Donegan

Constitutional Law, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of Vermont finding that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) does not preempt a Vermont statute and...

Dixon v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims dismissing claimant's appeal as untimely is reversed and remanded, where: 1) the...

US v. Antone

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
The district court's order of defendant's civil commitment under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 is reversed and remanded,...

Airlines Pilots Association v. United Airlines, Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
California's Kin Care Law, which requires employers who provide paid sick leave to their employees, to allow employees to use sick leave to care for...

City of Riverside v. Horspool

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a nuisance abatement action brought against defendants by plaintiff-city, the trial court's orders appointing a receiver, permitting the sale of...

Driscoll v. Superior Court (Spencer)

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of defendant's cross-complaint alleging retaliation under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) is reversed and remanded, where state courts...

Pickup v. Brown

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
California Senate Bill 1172, which bans state-licensed mental health providers from engaging in "sexual orientation change efforts" with patients...

People v. Kisling

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
The trial court's order determining defendant was not entitled to a hearing on whether his indeterminate commitment as a sexually violent predator...

Coleman v. Medtronic, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint alleging he suffered painful complications after a spinal surgery in which defendants' federally-approved bone...

Elsheref v. Applied Materials, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability
Judgment entered in favor of defendant-employer on plaintiffs' preconception tort claims alleging that plaintiff-minor was born with a number of birth...