Inadequate Written Notice on Eligibility or Benefit Amount Used by the Supplemental Security Income Program Violated Due Process

Plaintiffs Who Attained Legally Enforceable Settlement Agreement and Preliminary Injunction Are “Prevailing Party” for Attorney-Fee Purposes

Employee Who Took Leave to Care for Sick Child Was Discharged Without Good Cause

Seventh Circuit Vacates Judgment Voiding Indiana’s Policy Allowing Agency to Appeal Administrative Decisions Favorable to Medicaid Claimants

Claim for Children’s and Adult Disability Benefits Was Not Supported by Substantial Evidence

Consent Order Provides Community-Based Placements and Services for Plaintiffs on Remand from Supreme Court

Ninth Circuit Reinstates Challenge to Landlord’s Refusal to Rent to Welfare Recipients

Public Housing Authority Has Duty to Attempt to Accommodate Tenant’s Mental Disability Before Seeking to Evict Him

Eighth Circuit Articulates Proper Legal Standard for Consideration of Disability Claim Based on Obesity

Lead-Poisoned Children’s Action Against Paint Manufacturers Dismissed

Fathers and Putative Fathers Lacked Standing to Challenge Tennessee’s Paternity and Child Support Statutes

Inmates Challenge Prison Officials' Policy Restricting Reading Material

Bankruptcy Court Erred When It Lifted Automatic Stay and Allowed Eviction of Public Housing Residents

Seventh Circuit Affirms $10,000 Civil Penalty Against Landlord Who Sexually Harassed Section 8 Tenant

Legal Services Program That Lost Older Americans Act Grant to Rival Has No Right to Enforce Act’s Provisions Under Section 1983

District Court Applied Improper Legal Standard in Disability Discrimination Action

Supreme Court Holds That State May Not Refuse to Pay for Transcript in Appeal of Termination of Indigent Mother's Parental Rights

Supplemental Security Income Paid to Children May Not Be Counted as Household Income for Determining Eligibility for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Denial of Child’s Disability Claim Supported by Substantial Evidence Despite ALJ’s Failure to Ask Specific Questions of Claimant or His Mother

Cleveland Ordinance Requiring Peddlers to Pay $50 License Fee Does Not Unduly Restrain Peddlers’ First Amendment Rights

Former Employee May Sue Employer for Alleged Postemployment Discrimination Under Title VII

Welfare Act Provisions Terminating Supplemental Security Income and Food Stamps to Some Legal Aliens Are Upheld

Montana Agrees to Base Decisions About State Mental Health Facility Admissions and Discharges Only on Patients’ Need for Treatment and Support

ALJ’s Rejection of Treating Physician’s Opinion Was Supported by Substantial Evidence

Regulation Limiting Medicaid Coverage for Home Health Care to Services Provided at Recipient’s Residence Invalidated

Welfare Recipient Must Participate in Workfare Program That Conflicts with Independently Arranged Educational Program

Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas' Challenge to U.S. Failure to Enforce Immigration Laws

Minnesota’s Administrative Process for Child Support Found Unconstitutional

Tennessee’s Medicaid Managed Care Program Must Comply with Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Requirements

New York Officials Must Expedite Food Stamps and Medicaid Benefits to Applicants in Immediate Need

Court Denies Landlord’s Petition to Evict Tenant and Tables Tenant’s Claim of Retaliatory Eviction for a Later Proceeding

Employee Who Has Continued to Work with Accommodation May Be Disabled Within the Meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Court Erred in Imputing Income from Means-Tested Benefits to Child Support Obligor

Michigan Civil Rights Act Protects Unmarried Cohabitants from Housing Discrimination

Self-Help Legal Publisher Wins Right to Compel Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee to Disclose Information

Claim for Social Security Disability Income Does Not Necessarily Estop Claim Brought Under Americans with Disabilities Act

Title IX Precludes Student from Maintaining Section 1983 Claim Against School for Peer Sexual Harassment

Three-Day Notice to Pay Overdue Rent or Face Summary Eviction Violated Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Testers Challenging Racially Discriminatory Hiring Practices Appeal District Court’s Finding That They Lack Standing

Management Firm Sues Employment Testers for Fraud

Availability of Section 8 Vouchers and Replacement of Public Housing Moot Claim Against Department of Housing and Urban Development

Medicare Recipients Sue Department of Health and Human Services for Failing to Give Home Health Service Beneficiaries Written Notice of Terminations

Low-income Patients Appeal Trial Court Decision Allowing Privatization of County Hospital

Court Dismisses Challenge to Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Failure to Impose Low-income Use Restrictions and Project-Based Rental Assistance on Property Lost in Foreclosure

Students Seek to Enforce Florida Supreme Court Decision That State Constitution Entitles Public School Children to an Adequate Education

Second Circuit Rejects "Billing Judgment" Approach in Awarding Civil Rights Plaintiff Fees Proportionate to Her Final Recovery

Pending Hearing on Motion for Injunctive Relief, Housing Authority Must Not Issue or Enforce Trespass Notices Served on Tenant’s Invitees

Welfare Recipient May Not Be Forced to Work Until Proper Employability Determination and Notice Are Provided

Elderly and Disabled Food Stamp Households Are Entitled to Certification Periods of up to 24 Months