all - Opinion Summaries

CARDYN v. COMM'R OF SOC. SEC.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
In the absence of any facts demonstrating that plaintiff was prevented in some extraordinary way from timely asserting her rights, equitable tolling...

AUGUST v. FED. BUREAU OF INVESTIG.

Administrative Law, Government Law
A Freedom of Information Act claim is remanded where wholesale disclosure would jeopardize third parties involved in an FBI investigation, and...

MICHIGAN BELL TEL. CO. v. MFS INTELENET OF MICHIGAN, INC.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
A state administrative ruling requiring an incumbent local exchange carrier to provide reciprocal compensation to competing carriers did not violate...

CITY OF LOS ANGELES v. DAVID

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
A city's failure to provide a sufficiently prompt hearing to recover money paid for a parking violation did not amount to a due process violation, as...

FRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER v. SONOMA COUNTY WATER AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
Because an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) does not contain adequate cumulative impacts and alternatives analyses and its description of the...

LOWRY v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Benefits
A lawyer who frequently represents social security claimants could not bring a writ of mandamus to have an Administrative Law Judge investigated and...

KRISHNAN v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
Denial of a non-citizen's application for disability benefits under the Social Security Act is affirmed based on the pre-remand administrative record,...

OREKOYA v. MOONEY

Administrative Law, Injury & Tort Law
On a Nigerian national's Privacy Act claims against the secret service: (1) the Act permits an award of emotional distress damages subject to...

STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
In challenges to FERC approval of a corporate reorganization of a utility company's subsidiaries, 1) Federal Register notice adequately notified the...

NAT'L ORG. OF VETERANS' ADVOCATES, INC. v. SEC'Y OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
38 C.F.R. section 3.304, providing that evidence other than veteran service records may be sufficient to establish a stressor in claims for service...