Administrative Hearing Authorizes Payment of Cash Assistance In Circumstances, Despite Withdrawal of Application

Public Assistance Recipients Allege That Social Services Department Discriminates Against Those with Limited English Proficiency

Persons With Disabilities in Louisiana Challenge Lack of Medicaid-Funded Community-Based Long-Term Care Services

Legal Services Programs Must Disclose Client Names to Legal Services Corporation Office of the Inspector General

Summary Judgment Denied Because Jury Could Find Check-Cashing Business Usurious

California Department of Health Services Rescinds Challenged Regulations Restricting Immigrants’ Nonemergency Prenatal Care

Low-Income Elderly Plaintiffs Allege Inadequate Information, Counseling, and Assistance for Medicare Buy-In Program

Intermediate Court of Appeals Holds That Public Housing Tenant Was Given Insufficient Notice of Eviction for Behavior of Male Visitors

Administrative Law Judge Adequately Investigated Supplemental Security Income Applicant’s Claim That Her Mental Impairment Prevented Her from Appealing Prior Denials of Benefits

Plaintiff Need Not Exhaust Administrative Processes Under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Before Suing School District for Money Damages

Tribal Housing Authority Held to Be Exempt from Title VII

Tenth Circuit Upholds Denial of Disability Benefits Where Applicant Could Not Perform Past Work But Could Perform Alternate Work

South Dakota Regulations That Deny Welfare Benefits to Certain Legal Resident Aliens Do Not Violate State and Federal Constitutions

Third Circuit Holds That Bankrupt Company Was No Longer an 'Employer' at Time it Terminated Employees, Who Therefore Do Not Receive Administrative Priority

Third Circuit Holds That Indirect Victims of Sex Discrimination Have Standing to Sue, and That Evidence Was Improperly Dismissed

Second Circuit Holds Lengthy Segregation in Special Housining Unit Not to Violate Due Process

Second Circuit Holds That, Subject to Safe Harbor Provision, Americans with Disabilities Act Regulates Insurance Underwriting Practices

Toll on Infant’s Claim Against City for Lead Paint Poisoning Is Not Terminated by Parent’s Failure to Pursue Action Timely After Filing Notice of Claim

Eleventh Circuit Holds That Pregnant Employee Failed to Establish Disparate Impact of Policy Leading to Her Termination

Magistrate Judge Certifies Class Action Against Representative Payee

Eleventh Circuit Holds That Catalyst Test for Award of Fees Applied When City Voluntarily Repealed the Challenged Ordinance

Employee's Inability to Obtain Child Care is Not a Defense to Termination for Excessive Absenteeism

Ninth Circuit Holds That Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act Did Not Repeal Statutory Basis for Habeas Review for Aliens in Custody Pursuant to Deportation Order

Paternity Judgment Is Not Dischargeable Even When Owed to Nonspouse

Eighth Circuit Remands Disability Benefits Denial for Development of Record on Requirements of Listed Impairment

Oral Protest to a Repossession Does Not Constitute a Breach of the Peace Under Minnesota Uniform Commercial Code

Employee Was Not Entitled to Leave Under Family and Medical Leave Act to Care for Troubled Teenager

Arkansas Department of Human Services Agrees to Improve Child Protective Services and Foster Care

Migrant Workers Allege Virginia Farm Owners Violated Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act and Fair Labor Standards Act

Massachusetts Must Provide Specialized Services to Adults Who Have Mental Retardation and Reside in Nursing Homes

Supreme Court Holds That a “Class of One” May Allege Equal Protection Claim

Ninth Circuit Holds That Administrative Law Judge Erred in Dismissing Case in Which Claimant’s Attorney Appeared at Hearing Without Client

Ninth Circuit Holds That Abuse of Discretion Is the Proper Standard of Review for District Court Remand

Regulation Requiring Falsely Certified Student to Seek Employment Before Loan Discharge Is Inconsistent with Statute Mandating Discharge in Fraud Cases

Employee Who Abandoned Job By Refusing To Work Late Not Constructively Dischaged

Disabled Parent Is Entitled to Credit Against Child Support Obligation for Social Security Benefits Paid Directly to Child on Her Behalf

Maryland Foster Care Children Are Parties to Guardianship Proceedings and Have the Right to Object to the Termination of Parental Rights

Court Grants Time Extension for Filing Certiorari Petition Where Legislative “Confusion” Surrounded Enactment of Administrative Appeals Rule