Eighth Circuit Court Holds IEP was Legitimately Devised

Eighth Circuit Court Finds that Evidence Presented for SSI Disability Claim was Reasonably Capable of Confirming Pain Alleged

Eighth Circuit Court Invalidates DOL Regulations Made Under FMLA that would too Greatly Extend Leave Allowances

Eighth Circuit Court Holds that FMLA Unfitness to Work is even Broader than Opinion Given by Physician

Eighth Circuit Court Holds that Disability Determination Must be Made by the Social Security Administration Itself

Eighth Circuit Court Holds that National Bank Act Pre-empts State Law Actions

Eighth Circuit Court Overturns Disability Determination that Over-relied on Job Classifications

Eighth Circuit Court Holds that Denial of Disability Benefits was not Contrary to Evidence

Eighth Circuit Court Holds that Depression may be Independent of Alcoholism as a Basis for an Disability Claim

Fifth Circuit Court Holds That Detrimental Reliance Must be Proven to Recover Damages for a Disclosure Violation

Tenth Circuit Judge Dismisses Habeas Petition as Conditions of Confinement Suit is Not Proper Subject Matter

Tenth Circuit Judge Holds That Administrative Agency Cannot Without Express Congressional Authority Create Limitations Period for Review of its Own Actions

Tenth Circuit Court Finds That Patient’s Claim of Poor Screening and Premature Transfer Was Material, But Dismisses Due to Lack of Merit

Second Circuit Court Upholds Denial of Qualified Immunity for Prison That Left Prisoner in Severer Confinement Without any Review

Tenth Circuit Finds That Practice of Reading Grades Aloud Violates Privacy Act, Though Not Fourteenth Amendment, and Qualified Immunity Does Not Apply

In Redistricting Case Ninth Circuit Finds That District Court Should Have Treated Indian Vote Dilution Caused by White Bloc as Legally Significant

Fifth Circuit Court Declines to Act on Proposed School Relocation Since it Will Not Actively Cause Resegregation

Tenth Circuit Court Finds That Father of Child Could Challenge Exclusion From Adoption Hearing in District Court Even Though a State Law, Except as Regards Custody

Tenth Circuit Court Holds That Plaintiff Could Not Show That Mental Disability Justified His Failure to Request Review of Entitlement to Benefits

Tenth Circuit Court Finds That Health Care Financing Administration Did Not Abuse Discretion In Imposing $1300/day Fine for Nursing Home Violations

Ninth Circuit Court Finds That Colorable Due Process Claim Against Indian Probate Court is Not Subject to Exhaustion of Remedies Requirement

Tenth Circuit Court Holds That Time On-Call Can be Compensable as Overtime Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

Ninth Circuit Finds Inconsistent State Reimbursement Requirements for Adoption Costs from Persons In-State and Out-of-State to be Unconstitutional

In SSI Application, Ninth Circuit Court Finds That Letters From Laypersons Are Valid Evidence of Mental Disability

Ninth Circuit Holds That Involuntary Commitment for Assessment of Mental State Can be Unconstitutional

Ninth Circuit Court Holds That Commissioner Requires More Than Notice Letter as Evidence of Amount of SSI Overpayment

Family and Medical Leave Act Did Not Alter Notice Requirements in Collective Bargaining Agreement for Taking Leave

Seventh Circuit Court Disallows Check Subrogation to Commercial Entity That Was a Volunteer Payee

Ninth Circuit Court Finds That Earlier Class Action Did Not Prevent Bringing of Equal Protection Claim Against Anti-Lawsuit Provision

Fifth Circuit Court Finds That District Court Should Have Allowed Substitution of Counsel for HIV-Positive Prisoners and Vacates No-Contact Order

Bankrupt is Not Discharged of Child Support Debt Even Where Receiver Not His Spouse, Former Spouse, or Child

Ninth Circuit Overrules Board of Immigration Appeals’ Requirement of Corroborating Evidence of Persecution Where it Did Not First Make Explicit Finding of Adverse Credibility

State Appeals Finding That Alaska Abortion Statute Violates Right of Privacy

Eighth Circuit Court Finds That it was Correct to Use More Thorough Report of Agency-Funded Consultants Rather Than That of Disability Benefit Applicant’s Own Physician

In Any Bankruptcy Filing Ninth Circuit Court Holds Absent Parent Not Entitled to Discharge of Debt Owed for Child Support Paid by County Before Entry of Child Support Order

Fair Credit Reporting Act Is Not Governed by the General Discovery Rule

Ninth Circuit Holds Police Whose Inaction Allowed Abuse by a Private Citizen Are Still Open to Due Process Suit

Prison’s Indifference to Treating Medical Conditions Did Not Amount to Constitutional Violation Given Prisoner’s Own Non-Cooperation with HIV Test

Excessive Exercise Imposed as Punishment on Student Violated Constitution, but Case Remanded by Fifth Circuit Court Because Alternate State Remedy Existed

Claim that Child Support Obligation Should be Modified for Incarcerated Parent is Remanded for an Evidentiary Hearing

Eighth Circuit Court Holds That Eleventh Amendment Immunity Bars Claim Under Family Medical Leave Act

Eighth Circuit Court Finds Sacked Employee Who Was Medically Limited to 40-Hour Week Had No Grounds for Claim Under ADA

Eighth Circuit Affirms Reduction in Disability Insurance Benefits on Account of Past Receipt of Disability Pension

Second Circuit Court Upholds Decision That Holding Newborn 10 Days Pending Screening Test Confirmation Did Not Violate Civil Rights

Finding that Plaintiffs Only Partially Prevailed, Eleventh Circuit Reduces Fee Award in Voting Rights Case

Eleventh Circuit Finds that Social Security Recipients' Application for Attorney Fees Was Not Untimely