all - Opinion Summaries

CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS & INTERNET ASS'N v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
A challenge to the FCC's authority to impose wireless number portability is time-barred. Because the FCC found that number portability rules are...

AMEREN SERVS. CO. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
FERC correctly interpreted a settlement agreement between plaintiff and a municipal utilities company unambiguously prohibits plaintiff from adjusting...

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE v. HOGARTH

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Trade
The Court of International Trade did not err in concluding that the Interim-Final Rule promulgated by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is in...

BLAKES v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
The administrative law judge failed to apply the proper legal standard in considering a minor's application for Social Security Income disability...

SKOKOMISH INDIAN TRIBE v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Indian Law, Water Law
The district court correctly refused to entertain an Indian tribe's claims of harm due to a hydroelectric project owned by a city, where the challenge...

TPS, INC. v. US DEP'T OF DEF.

Administrative Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law
The principle of "business as usual," in regulations governing production of electronic data under the Freedom of Information Act, is not restricted...

DIR., OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMP. PROGRAMS v. PEABODY COAL CO.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
The ALJ and the Benefits Review Board lack jurisdiction over an action for reimbursement from a former employer for survivor-benefit payments made by...

ANGEL v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Denial of disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act is reversed where the ALJ erred by...

BEJAR v. ASHCROFT

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
The INA does not provide for an automatic stay of removal during this 30-day appeal period, during which she could appeal the INS's denial of her...

GAYTAN v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
The WCAB's denial of plaintiff's disability is annulled and remanded where the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) should have...