Claimant Who Quit Her Part-Time Job After Being Laid Off from Her Full-Time Job Challenges Benefit Disqualification

California Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act’s Imposition of Fees on Lead Paint Manufacturers Upheld

Bowel and Liver Transplant for Three-Year-Old with Short-Bowel Syndrome Is a Covered Service Under Medicaid and TennCare

Court Denies County’s Motion to Dismiss Challenge to Its Failure to Establish, Modify, and Enforce Child-Support Orders

City Ordinance Restricting Group Homes for Children Is Invalidated

State Hearings Board Finds That City Ordinance Restricting Group Homes for Children Violates State Planning Act

Illinois Agency Agrees to Allow Nonparent Caretakers to Apply for WIC Benefits for Children in Their Care

Galveston County, Texas Required To Provide Written Notice of Available Assistance Program, Reasonable Assistance in Completing Forms, and Written Notice of Hearing Decisions.

Secretary May Not Reduce SSI Benefits on Grounds of Recipients’ Spouses’ Receiving Veterans’ Benefits for Unusual Medical Expenses

Vermont Supreme Court Remands Case to Determine if Claimant Could Not File Timely Appeal Because of Mental Disability

Student Who Brought a 1¼-Inch Blade in a Lipstick Case to School Challenges Her Expulsion for Possession of a Dangerous Weapon

Suspended Student Objects to Determination That His Current Placement Is Appropriate Under Stay-Put Provisions of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Challenge to Employer’s Failure to Give Employees Notice Prior to Closing Plant Is Settled

School District Enjoined from Expelling Student with Behavioral Problems Pending His Evaluation for Special Education Services

Pension Benefits Awarded to Medicaid Applicant’s Former Wife Are Not Income Available to Him

Public Housing Authority Agrees to Give Applicants Specific Reasons for Denial and More Time to File Appeals

Community Spouses of Institutionalized Medicaid Recipients Challenge Massachusetts Rule Deeming Income to Them Before Determining Their Resource Allocation

Seven-Day Notice Without Advice to Tenants of Right to Cure Breach Is Insufficient

HUD’s Motion to Dismiss Complaint Alleging Deplorable Conditions at Section 8 Housing Is Denied

Appeals Tribunal Must Consider Whether Claimant’s Part-Time Selectman Duties Are a Qualifying Limitation Restricting His Availability for Work

Claimant Discharged over the Phone After Expressing Discontent with Her Supervisor Appeals Denial of Benefits

SSI Claimant Whose Representative Never Received Denial Notice Has Good Cause for Late Hearing Request

Work Sheets and Computer Printouts Without Cancelled Checks Negotiated by Beneficiary Are Not Sufficient Evidence of Overpayment

Settlement Agreement Requires Landlord to Enact Only Rules and Lease Provisions Consistent With HUD Regulations

Section 8 Landlord to Cease Enforcing Unreasonable Rules On Occupancy, Guests, and Association with Banned Individuals

SSI Recipient Who Lived in Her Own House Rent-Free Following Foreclosure Did Not Receive In-Kind Support and Maintenance

Special Master Appointed to Oversee Implementation of Remedial Orders in Case Challenging School District’s Exclusion of Students with Disabilities

Child Support Enforcement Agency May Not Collect Pass-Through Paid to AFDC Recipient in Error

Low-Income Latino Residents’ Challenge to Proposed Expansion of Toxic-Waste Disposal Facility Remanded to State Court

Supreme Court Upholds School’s Policy Requiring Student Athletes to Submit to Random Drug Testing

Supreme Court Holds That Federal Race-Based Preferences Are Subject to Strict Scrutiny

Timely Motion for Reconsideration of Decision Upholding Deportation Order Does Not Toll 90-Day Period for Review of Final Order

Zoning Ordinance Restricting Number of Unrelated Individuals But Not Number of Family Members in Single-Family Dwelling Is Not Exempt from Fair Housing Act

Second Circuit Holds That Eleventh Amendment Bars Federal Court Challenge to Amendment Reducing Benefits from Aid to Families with Dependent Children

Child with Physical Disability and Excluded from Athletics by School Is Awarded over $37,000 in Fees`

Child’s SSI Claim Remanded Under Sentence Four for Reconsideration of Evidence of Behavioral Impairments

Ohio Agency Agrees to Improve Qualified Medical Beneficiary and Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary Programs

Tenant Whose Rent Was Abated Because of Untenantable Premises Is Prevailing Party in Eviction Action

Judgment Debt Agreed to by Debtor Before Learning That His Income Is Exempt from Attachment Is Vacated

Mother Equitably Estopped from Seeking Child Support from Father for Period Prior to Paternity and Support Action Filing

Utah Court of Appeals Upholds State’s Grandparent Visitation Statute

Refugee from Forced Sterilization Asks Second Circuit to Find Him Eligible for Political Asylum and Withholding of Deportation

Debtor Argues That Lender Did Not Qualify for Federal Preemption of State Law Limiting Loan Origination Fee

Rural Electric Cooperative Agrees to Accept Medical Certification Forms from Persons Who Rely on Electricity to Protect Their Health

Terminated Employee Challenges Employer’s Interference with His Rights Under the Family and Medical Leave Act

General Assistance Claimant with Mental Disability Is Entitled to Retroactive Benefits

Tenant in Jail Was Not in Material Noncompliance with Lease Requiring Her to Live in Apartment

Social Security Administration Commissioner Grants Survivors’ Benefits to Child Conceived After Her Father’s Death