Recipient Who Continued to Receive Food Stamps After Son Left Household Did Not Commit Intentional Program Violation

Supreme Court Holds That Any Increased Penalty For Race-Motivated Crime Requires Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt Before a Jury

Oklahoma Supreme Court Prohibits Trial Judge from Holding Proceedings Not in Compliance with Indian Child Welfare Act

Alien Convicted of Aggravated Felony Following His Entry into United States Is Deportable

First Circuit Court Finds That Undue Hardship Under ADA Requires Individualized Assessment, and That Employer Was Not Financially Burdened by Using Temporary Replacements of Person on Long-Term Leave

Second Circuit Court Upholds Denial of Injunction Against New York to Prevent Bulldozing of Community Gardens on Disparate Impact Grounds

Third Circuit Court Upholds District Court's Dismissal Without Leave to Amend Due to Deficiency of Pro Se Unconstitutional Conditions Case

Third Circuit Court Holds That State's Placing Person in Custody With an Abuser Did Not Violate Constitutional Rights

Third Circuit Court Holds That Solitary Confinement Procedures Comport With Due Process and Outweigh Protected Liberty Interest

Third Circuit Court Upholds Constitutionality of Levying Funds for Housing Costs Associated With Reincarceration After Parole Violations

Incapacitated Patient Moved to Interstate Hospital Becomes Resident of That State; also Spouse Can Take Over Assets for Purposes of Medicaid Planning

Sixth Circuit Court Holds Employer Did Not Give Sufficient Notice That 12-Week Period Had Begun to Run, But Also Finds That Employee Did Not Prove Disability

Arbitration Agreement Is Unenforceable Because Without Mutuality of Obligation There Is No Consideration

Sixth Circuit Court Dismisses RICO Undisclosed Charges Claim as Failing to Properly Allege Fraud

Fifth Circuit Court Holds That Without Some Value in Principal Residence, Body Holding Secondary Lien is not Protected by Bankruptcy Antimodification Provisions

Fifth Circuit Court Affirms That Company Could Not Meet Reliance Requirement to Challenge Discharge, Since Cardholder Made No Representation as to Creditworthiness

Fifth Circuit Court Affirms That Ex-Spouse Is Not Entitled to Proceeds of Annuity After a QDRO is Issued

Fourth Circuit Court Holds That Black Lung Benefit ALJ Failed to Adequately Explain Weighting Given to Evidence and Remands

Fourth Circuit Court Finds Black Lung ALJ Wrongly Weighed Evidence Piecemeal and Remands Case

Eighth Circuit Holds That Finding That Impairments are Severe Does Not Require Finding That They are Disabling for SSI Purposes

Eighth Circuit Affirms That Disability Finding is Not Mandated by Work Activity Being Made Painful by Degenerative Spinal Condition

Eighth Circuit Holds That Collection Fee Based Not on Cost of Collection But on Principal Balance Remaining Violated Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Eighth Circuit Affirms SSI Commissioner's Rejection of One Expert's Opinion in Favor of Another in Light of Other Available Evidence

Eighth Circuit Broadens Scope for Relief, Holding That District Court Used Wrong Form of Remand of SSI Disability Appeal

Eighth Circuit Holds Collection Notice That Slightly Overstated Debtors Potential Liability Still Violated Plain Language of FDCPA

Seventh Circuit Court Holds SSA Not to Blame For Appointing Uncle Who Misappropriated SSI Payments

Seventh Circuit Court Reverses Award of Punitive Damages Under ADA As Employer Did Not Show Reckless Indifference

Seventh Circuit Court Holds Individuals Not Subject of ADA Provisions, Hence Claim Against Prison Officials Should be Pursued in State Court

Seventh Circuit Court Permits Random Drug Testing of Students Going Outside School for Drugs and Alcohol But Not Nicotine

Seventh Circuit Court Vacates District Court's Dismissal Without Warning of Disability Benefit Suit as an Abuse of Discretion

Seventh Circuit Court Affirms That Appearance of "Creditors Bureau" in Name of Collection Agency Was Not Misleading

Seventh Circuit Court Finds That Lien Can be Lifted from Bankrupt's Automobile Because Creditor Failed to Act Before Plan Was Confirmed

Seventh Circuit Court Finds TILA Violations in Passed-On Finance Charges and in Useless 'Auto Club' Membership Fee

Seventh Circuit Court Affirms That Recovering Alcoholic Was Not Discriminated Against Under ADA or Vocational Rehabilitation Act

Sixth Circuit Court Finds That School Acted in Accordance With ADA and Rehabilitation Act by Putting Hep-C Carrying Basketball Team Member on 'Hold' Status

Colorado Regulation Validly Restricted use of Income Trusts to Medicaid Applicants Whose Income is Less Than Nursing Home Costs

In ADA Dismissal Claim, Tenth Circuit Court Holds Depression Not a 'Substantial Limitation'

Representation by Lay Advocates at Due Process Hearings Is Unauthorized Practice of Law

Ninth Circuit Court Finds That 35% Deduction of Inmates' Funds Doesn't Violate ERISA But is an Excessive Fine

First Circuit Court Holds Fugitive Disentitlement Rule Not to Apply to Family Matters, But Risk of Physical or Psychological Harm Precludes Return of Children Under Hague Convention

San Francisco Officials Agree to Assess for Possible Home and Community-Based Services Persons in Need of Long-Term Care and Persons at Risk of Institutionalization

Payment Moratorium Request May Not Be Denied Because of Policy That Income Loss After Separation or Divorce Is Permanent

Each Employee Represented by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission May Receive Full Statutory Damages

When Veteran Submits Well-Grounded Claim for Service-Connected Disability, Agency Must Assist in Development of All Bases for Claim

First Circuit Court Holds that Administrative Remedies become Futile when their Pursuance Actively Leads to an Injustice, not merely when Party has Prevailed Once Already

In Appeal Against Attorney Fees, Federal Circuit Court Holds That Substantial Justification of Attorney’s Actions is a Question of Fact Outside Jurisdiction

After Medicare Exhaustion Hospitals May Charge Reasonably More than Approved Rate for Medicare-Covered Days in Hospital

Eleventh Circuit Court Holds That Pawbroker Transactions are Governed by Pawnbroker Statute Not Usury Statute

Need for Transportation to Medical Provider Deemed Essential and Therefore Claimable as an Expense