Hearing Request Deadline Waived for Spanish-Speaking Claimant Who Received English-Only Notice

Child Welfare Agency Must Provide Drug-Treatment Services to Mothers Whose Children Have Been Placed in Foster Care Because of Drug-Related Neglect

Child Living with and Supported by Alleged Father at Time of Father’s Death Is Entitled to Child’s Benefits

Iowa Supreme Court Articulates New Standards for Determining the Need for Guardianships

Low-Income Residents Challenge California County’s Adoption of Inadequate Land Use and Infrastructure Plan

Public Housing Authority Agrees to Waive Battered Woman’s Liability for Fire Damage to Her Apartment

Venue Is Proper in Judicial District Where Consumer Received Collection Notice

Section 8 Tenant Agrees Not to Allow Her Batterer into Her Apartment Complex

Omaha Public Housing Authority Rescinds Prohibition of Tenants from Having Overnight Guests Without Permission

Claimant Argues That His Benefits Should Not Be Recouped When Employer Does Not File Written Protest Prior to Fact Finding

Vermont Supreme Court Holds Involuntary Treatment Order Unnecessary to Effect Patient’s Interstate Transfer

Public Housing Authority Did Not Prove That Guest Arrested for Drug Possession and Sale Was Living with Tenant

Social Security Benefits Paid to Children on Noncustodial Parent’s Work Record Should Not Be Credited Against Parent’s Support Obligation

Board of Veterans Appeals’ Decisions Are Not Subject to Collateral Review for Clear and Unmistakable Error

Veterans Who Filed Initial Notices of Disagreement with VA Denials Before 1988 Are Not Entitled to Court of Veterans Appeals Hearings

Section 8 Tenant Challenges Housing Rule Prohibiting Hanging Almost Any Decoration Inside or Outside Apartments

Section 8 Landlord Agrees to Adopt New Occupancy Rule

Challenge to Wisconsin Emergency Assistance Rule Moot After Statute Expires.

Farmworker Appeals Decision That He Was Not Harmed by County Department’s Failure to Enforce Sanitary Code

City Violated Settlement Agreement with City Workers’ Union by Hiring Prisoners and Welfare Recipients to Perform Work

Golf Course, in Settlement of Americans with Disabilities Act Suit. Agrees to Give Access to Persons Using Wheelchairs

School Board Enjoined from Closing Occupational High School for Students with Mental Disabilities

Illinois Appellate Court Holds That Motor Vehicle Installment Sales Law Does Not Preclude Challenge to Sale of Repossessed Car

South Carolina Court of Appeals Holds That Employee with Bad Attitude May Be Disqualified from Receiving Benefits

Minnesota Court of Appeals Holds That Mutual Restraining Order Was Not Warranted Without Evidence of Mutual Abuse

Redevelopment Agency Agrees to Acquire Single-Room-Occupancy Hotel After Tenants Intervene in District Attorney’s Suit to Close It

Department of Education Halts Collection Activities Against Students Attending Career Institute Who Did Not Have “Ability to Benefit”

Parties Settle Class Action Challenging Conditions in Pennsylvania Prisons

Polygraph Examiner’s Motion to Dismiss Employee’s Claim Under Employee Polygraph Protection Act Denied

Ombudsman’s Records of Investigation of Allegations That Hospital Mistreated Ward Are Not Privileged and Subject to Discovery by Hospital

Jury Refuses to Evict Public Housing Tenant Who Alleged She Did Not Have Control over Her Sons’ Criminal Behavior

Court Denies Class Certification and Summary Judgment in Action Against Searches at Migrant Labor Camp

Claimant Who Was Offered Leave of Absence After Domestic Abuse But Quit Instead Is Not Disqualified from Receiving Benefits

Homeless Men Challenge Cleveland’s Policy of Forcibly Removing Them from Certain Areas

Regional Transit Authority Agrees to Paratransit Recipients’ Pretermination Notice and Hearing Rights

Residents Challenge New York City’s Adoption of Inadequate Protocol for Removal of Lead Paint from Elevated Transportation Structures

Connecticut Law Limiting Reimbursement for Private-School Placement of Children with Disabilities Is Upheld

Amici Oppose Defendant’s Appeal of Ruling to Enforce New York City’s Lead Paint Law

Spanish-Speaking Student Awarded Damages for School’s Failure to Replace Spanish-Speaking Instructor

Farmworkers’ Claim for Wrongful Discharge for Organizing Is Upheld

Farm Operator’s Reliance on Old Employee to Refer New Workers Defeats Family Business Exemption from Agricultural Workers Protection Act

Landlord Agrees to Install Air Conditioning Unit with No Rent Hike in Apartment of Man with Coronary Artery Disease

Michigan Court Declines Jurisdiction over Custody Case Filed by Father with Child-Abuse Record in Texas

Claimant with Obesity and Heart Disease Is Entitled to Medicare Coverage for Seat-Lift Chair

Agency Erred in Failing to Inform Applicant in Writing of Her Right to Choose Head of Household

Washington Agency Agrees to Cease Filing Liens to Secure Repayment of Public Benefits Before Appeal Period Expires

Appeals Council Remands SSI Claim of 11-Year-Old with Seizures and Brain Abscess for Development of Additional Evidence

Agency May Not Deny Emergency Assistance to Prevent Utility Shutoff to Claimant with “Positive Cash Flow”

Court Awards Damages to Tenant Whose Landlord Turned Off Water Supply in Effort to Cause Her to Move Out