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Pirtle v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of an application for Social Security disability insurance and supplemental security income benefits is affirmed over claims that the ALJ erred...

DeJesus v. US

Administrative Law, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
A judgment finding that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was liable on a theory of gross negligence for the shooting deaths of plaintiffs'...

Dixon v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI alleging that plaintiff was denied reinstatement as an FBI Special Agent as a...

Toyama v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a discrimination case arising from petitioner's removal from her position as a Public Health Advisor for failing to accept a directed reassignment...

Sierra Club v. Delaware Dep't of Natural Res. & Envtl. Control

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Remedies, Water Law
In a suit by the Sierra Club seeking to bar state agency and officials from conducting dredging operations in a canal until they complied with earlier...

Suburban Mortgage Assocs., Inc. v. US Dep't of Housing & Urban Dev.

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute between a commercial mortgage lender and a government agency over an insurance contract, district court's denial of the government's...

Navajo Nation v. US Forest Serv.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Indian Law
In a case brought by Indian tribes challenging the Forest Service's approval of an expansion to a ski area's facilities on sacred Arizona mountain...

NSTAR Elec. & Gas Corp. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
In dispute over agreements for wholesale price of electricity in situations where local transmission shortages obstructed competitive market pricing...

North Baja Pipeline LLC v. FERC

Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law
In case involving a rate filing by petitioner, a pipeline that transports natural gas from Arizona to Mexico through California, petition for review...

Bowen v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case arising from a denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits from the Social Security Administration, a ruling in...