all - Opinion Summaries

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

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed on remand to revise regulations related to the award of dependency and indemnity compensation to surviving...

STEENHOLDT v. FED. AVIATION ADMIN.

Administrative Law, Transportation
The court has no jurisdiction to determine whether the FAA erred in deciding not to renew petitioner's authority to examine certain aircraft repairs...

JONES v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Insurance Law
An administrative law judge (ALJ) did not err in finding a deceased disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income claimant's...

CURRAN-KICKSEY v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Insurance Law
District court did not err in discounting a disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income claimant's subjective complaints of pain,...

BRINDISI v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
The record does not adequately articulate the administrative law judge's basis for denying Supplemental Social Security Income benefits to a minor.

CATALINA CAR WASH, INC. v. DEP'T OF INDUS. RELATIONS

Administrative Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Workers' Compensation
An employer was insured as a matter of law against workers' compensation liability at the time of an inspection of its premises by the Division of...

CALIFORNIA ADVOCATES FOR NURSING HOME REFORM v. BONTA

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Plaintiffs produced sufficient evidence showing that Department of Health Services (DHS) policies interpreting federal and state statutes relating to...

PEOPLE v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY (ISENHOWER)

Administrative Law, Injury & Tort Law, Government Law
The trial court abused its discretion in relieving claimants from the six-month deadline to file a government claim under Gov. Code section 911.2,...

NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD. v. BREDE, INC.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
The NLRB did not err in finding employer was liable for unilaterally changing an employee referral system, as the temporary impasse in bargaining...

MONTANA WILDERNESS ASS'N, INC. v. US FOREST SERV.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
A claim alleging that the U.S. Forest Service (U.S.F.S.) violated the Montana Wilderness Study Act, by failing to maintain wilderness study areas, was...