all - Opinion Summaries

DaCosta v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of BIA decision denying adjustment of status is denied where: 1) petitioner did not exhaust claims of equitable tolling and...

Dep't of Parks & Recreation v. Bazaar del Mundo Inc.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Trademark
Denial of plaintiff-agency's motion to preliminarily enjoin defendant from using certain registered trademarks in the operation of restaurants located...

Wang vs Gonzales

Administrative Law, Evidence, Immigration Law
Denial of application for asylum and withholding of removal under former 8 U.S.C. section 1182(a)(20) is upheld where the BIA's 2003...

Paese v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment for plaintiff is affirmed as to the finding of permanent disability and the award of longterm disability benefits and attorney's fees,...

Walker v. McDonough

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint against the Departments of Corrections and Insurance for failure to prosecute is reversed where the court erred in...

Auerbach v. City of Miami

Administrative Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Certiorari is granted where a variance issued by the City of Miami Commission did not satisfy the "legal hardship" requirement under the governing...

Lightfoot v. Dist. of Columbia

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of partial summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C section 1983 suit to a class of former government employees whose disability compensation benefits had...

Delgado-Reynua v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Where the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) reverses an immigration judge's (IJ) grant of discretionary relief and gives effect to the IJ's original...

Akhtar v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
A regulation precluding applications for adjustment of status from "paroled" "arriving aliens" in removal proceedings, 8 C.F.R. section 245.1(c)(8),...

Pan v. US Attorney Gen.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, is granted where the...