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Hodges v. Mack Trucks, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability, Remedies, Workers' Compensation
In appeals arising out of a product-liability action for injuries sustained because of a secondary collision in Texas, involving a tractor-trailer...

Young v. Township of Green Oak

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for former employer, a Michigan township, on claims that plaintiff was wrongfully discharged from his position as a police officer is...

Diaz-Reyes v. Fuentes-Ortiz

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action brought by an employee against several agency employees and against the Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department...

Hernandez v. Security Windows & Doors, Inc.

Administrative Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
Order of Unemployment Appeals Commission (UAC) is reversed and remanded where there is a precedent of judicially created exceptions to an otherwise...

Huseman v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment against plaintiff finding that his Jones Act and unseaworthiness claims against defendant were time-barred and that his maintenance...

McGee v. Pub. Water Supply

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Public Utilities
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming unconstitutional retaliation arising from plaintiff's termination as District Manager for a county water...

Richlin Sec. Serv. Co. v. Chertoff, Sec'y of Homeland Sec.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), paralegal services are not recoverable as fees, but are only recoverable as expenses at the cost to the...

Burnett v. LFW Inc.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against a former employer,...

Garcia v. Federal Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
After dismissal of action against defendant, in case alleging that homeowner policy insuring employer extended coverage to plaintiff, Court of Appeals...

Castro v. Secretary of Homeland Sec.

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A disabled applicant for a transportation security screening position cannot sue the Department of Homeland Security for violation of the...