all - Opinion Summaries

LAND v. THE BD. OF EDUC. OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

Administrative Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A board of education was entitled to delegate its authority to lay off employees, under sections 34-84 and 34-85 of the School Code.

TETRO v. PRINCIPI

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
Even if the Board of Veterans' Appeals's failure to procure certain records constituted a grave procedural error, that error no longer invokes a...

EDWARDS v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
An administrative law judge's determinations, that a Social Security claimant's allegations of disabling pain were not credible and that her...

SIERRA CLUB v. ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Health Law
The EPA's approval of an extension of the statutory date for meeting ozone attainment standards was in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA), but the...

WILKINS v. ST. LOUIS HOUSING AUTH.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
For purposes of the anti-retaliation provisions of the False Claims Act, a housing authority was an employer and could be sued for damages. Sufficient...

JOHNSON v. HENDERSON

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
The doctrines of equitable tolling and equitable estoppel did not excuse plaintiff's late filing of administrative claims prior to filing suit in...

PHARM. RESEARCH & MFRS. OF AM. v. THOMPSON

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
The district court's rejection to a challenge to a state of Maine Medicaid demonstration project is reversed, as to the extent the Maine program...

NEW YORK NEW YORK, LLC v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
NLRB orders, finding that National Labor Relations Act section 7 rights of a contractor's employees were equivalent to those of the employer's own...

SIERRA CLUB v. US ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Transportation
A petition for review of an EPA order, finding an Atlanta Motor Vehicle Emissions Budget adequate for transportation conformity, is moot where a State...

PUB. CITIZEN HEALTH RESEARCH GROUP v. CHAO

Administrative Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
OSHA's delay in promulgating a lower permissible exposure limit for a known carcinogen in the workplace is not justified by scientific uncertainty or...