Suit Filed Against Manufacturers of Votomatic System Alleging Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices and Violation of Equal Protection and Due Process

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Eighth Circuit Holds that a Lifting Restriction is not a Disability for ADA Purposes

Federal Circuit Holds that EAJA Claim for Attorneys Fees Was Possible in Litigation Where Court Remanded in Part After Finding it had no Jurisdiction

Federal Circuit Holds that Department must Reconcile Inconsistency Between Regulations Pertaining to Survivors Benefits for Veterans Entitled to Total Service-Connected Disability Compensation

Tenth Circuit Holds That Eleventh Amendment Immunity Doesn't Protect State Sued for Tardy Administration of Medicaid Act

Eighth Circuit Holds Agreement to Submit all Disputes to Arbitration Remains Valid After a Particular Provision is Found to be Invalid

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Eleventh Circuit Dismisses Medicaid Recipients' Suit Alleging Medicaid Act Entitles them to Share of Funds from Master Tobacco Settlement

First Circuit Holds Mother has Right to Take Unpaid Leave of Absence to Care for Adult Child Because FMLA's Definition of 'Disabled' was Incorrectly Borrowed from the ADA

Eleventh Circuit Holds That Prisoners Jointly Filing Action In Forma Pauperis must Each Pay the Full Filing Fee

Tenth Circuit Holds Mere Asking of Impermissible Questions in Employment Application is not a Compensable Injury, and Subsequent Policy Change does not Make Employee a Prevailing Party

Tenth Circuit Holds That State is Immune from Suit for Violation of Consent Decree Intended to Make it Process Adoptions more Efficiently

D.C. Circuit Finds that Disproportionate Share Hospital Reimbursement Adjustments could be Recalculated Despite Administrative Error in Lodging Appeal

D.C. Circuit Affirms Order Permitting Forcible Medication of Mentally Disturbed Person Involved in Capitol Hill Shooting

Ninth Circuit Holds Detention Unjustified where Repatriation Agreement is not Imminent

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Sixth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment Against Employee Alleging Sexual Harassment Complaint was Retaliation for Petition filed with EEOC

Third Circuit Vacates $1.2 Million Attorney Fee Award

U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Corporate Owner Is Not Vicariously Liable Under Fair Housing Act for Employee’s Discriminatory Actions

Eighth Circuit Holds That Parents Were Prevailing Parties in IDEA Suit but were not Entitled to Award of Attorney's Fees

Seventh Circuit Holds that Sending of Brother's Credit Report was Justified by Possibility he was Same Person, and Wasn't Inaccurate Reporting

Second Circuit Vacates for Abuse of Discretion an Order Excluding from Recoverable Costs Those Incurred After Discussing Possible Settlement

Eleventh Circuit Upholds Regulation Aimed at Deterring Prisoners from Filing Meritless Claims, and Affirms Characterization of This as Such a Case

Seventh Circuit Holds that Successful ADA Litigant Can't Justify his Application for SSI Disability Benefits

Seventh Circuit Holds That Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act Doesn't Apply to Aliens Placed in Exclusion Proceedings Before it Became Effective

Eighth Circuit Holds That City's Procedures for Abatement of Nuisance, as Applied to Buildings Owned by HUD, Impermissibly Interfere with Operation of National Housing Act

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Ninth Circuit Affirms Injunction Preserving Muslim Inmates' Right to Miss Work for Friday Prayer Services

Seventh Circuit Holds That Student's Class Placement by Race Wasn't Disparate Treatment but Seating Placement Was

Second Circuit Holds That Issue of Education Board Providing Special Education to Child Enrolled in a Parochial School is Moot Because Child has Graduated

First Circuit Holds Creation by FMLA of a Private Cause of Action Against a State is not a Valid Fourteenth Amendment Abrogation of Immunity

Tenth Circuit Holds Eleventh Amendment Bars ADA Suit Against State for Charging Handicapped Parking Placard Fee

Ninth Circuit Dismisses Employer's Rationalizations for its Use of FMLA Absences as Pretext to Fire Employee

Eighth Circuit Holds That Disability Discrimination Implicit in Implementation of HOPE VI Program is not Ripe for Judicial Intervention

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Eighth Circuit Voids Expulsion for 'Threats' Where Violent Poetry Written Outside School was Shown to its Subject Without Protagonist's Consent

Sixth Circuit Holds NAACP has Standing to Bring Suit for Hiring Practices Despite Changes Made by City in the Intervening Time

Ninth Circuit Dismisses Constitutional Challenge to Proposition 227 Based on its Ambiguity as to the Amount of Non-English Spoken in Class Before Penalties Apply

First Circuit Affirms Denial of ERISA Disability Benefits and Finding that Failure to Reinstate was not Retaliatory

Tenth Circuit Holds Plaintiff had Burden to Show Removal of Architectural Barrier was Readily Achievable

Eighth Circuit Affirms Finding that Mental Impairment did not Equal Supplemental Security Income's Listed Impairment for Schizophrenia Disorder

Ninth Circuit Holds That Housing Advocacy Group has Standing to Sue City for Retaliatory Actions