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Bowman v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of an application for supplemental security income (SSI) benefits under Title XVI of the Social Security Act is reversed and remanded where: 1)...

Medalie v. Bayer Corp.

Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit under the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) statute against drug companies that developed, manufactured, and marketed the drug Baycol, seeking...

Village of Oak Lawn v. Faber

Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a declaratory judgment action alleging that, prior to the date plaintiff's newly elected board of trustees was to take office, the outgoing board...

Maximum Comfort, Inc. v. Sec'y of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In the context of reimbursement under Medicaid for a supplier of power-operated wheelchairs to Medicare beneficiaries, applicable provisions of the...

Chippewa Dialysis Servs. v. Leavitt

Government Benefits, Health Law
In a case where appellee denied requests by dialysis providers to be reimbursed at higher rates than Medicare normally pays for such services, summary...

Manning v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Debt Collection, Education Law, Government Benefits
In a Social Security benefits case, denial of plaintiff's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60 motion requesting that the court either set aside an administrative...

Cody v. Cox

Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
In suit brought by elderly veterans who seek to force the Armed Forces Retirement Home to provide "high quality" health care as required by law,...

Frantz v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of a claim for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act is reversed where: 1) the ALJ erred in improperly analyzing the...

Equal Access for El Paso, Inc. v. Hawkins

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Health Law
In light of the Supreme Court's decision in Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273 (2002), the Medicaid Act's Equal Access provision, 42 U.S.C. section...

Blakeman v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Social Security disability benefits case brought by an individual suffering from a genetic heart condition that allegedly causes disabling...