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Cox v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Denial of application for Social Security Disability Benefits is affirmed over applicant's argument that, as a result of procedural errors and...

England v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Denial of application for Social Security disability benefits is affirmed where: 1) the ALJ's determinations were supported by substantial evidence;...

Bertrand v. Maram

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a suit challenging Illinois rules for the provision of residential habilitation services, one plaintiff's appeal is dismissed as moot where a...

Park Manor, Ltd, v. US Dep't of Health and Human Servs.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Health Law
Petition for review is denied after an agency decision to deny attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act for the challenger in a challenge...

Becker vs. Kroll

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit alleging constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state libel claims after an abandoned disciplinary action against a...

Wilson v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
Denial of disability benefits is reversed and remanded where the ALJ did not articulate why a hypothetical question posed to a vocational expert that...

Sosebee v. Barnhart

Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Health Law
Denial of attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act in a petition for social security disability benefits is reversed and remanded where:...

Ball v. Rodgers

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In an action brought by a certified class of elderly, physically disabled, and developmentally disabled Medicaid beneficiaries alleging Arizona is...

US v. Hackensack Univ. Med. Ctr.

Evidence, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies
In a qui tam action under the False Claims Act involving, inter alia, alleged false Medicare claims and invoices, an order denying reconsideration of...

Orn v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of an application for Social Security benefits is reversed and remanded for a calculation of beneifts where: 1) the ALJ did not give "specific,...