City’s Submission to Referendum of Site Plan for Low-Income Housing Did Not Violate Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses, According to U.S. Supreme Court

Sixth Circuit Binds Managed Care Organizations, Hospitals, and Pharmacies to Consent Decree Governing TennCare Notice and Appeal Procedures

Sixth Circuit Holds That Cooperative Electric Company, as Provider of “Incidental Credit,” Is Exempt from Equal Credit Opportunity Act Regulations

Second Circuit Holds Actual Injury isn't Required for a Claim that Prison Procedures Denied Pretrial Detainee Adequate Access to Counsel

Tenant Petitions for Refund After Rent Increase Ignored Applicable Income Disregard

Suit Against Auto Retailers Alleges Unfair and Deceptive Conduct and Various Statutory Violations for Selling Car Without Documentation

Suit Alleges Unconscionable Conduct by Burial Company and Impermissible Financing Arrangements

Alleging Violations of Fair Credit Reporting Act, Housing Applicants Seek Class Action Certification

Employer Found to Have Closed Plant to Reduce Burden of Paying Benefit Plans

Court Reduces Rent by Twenty Percent for Gas Leak and Refrigerator Problems

Though Children's Father Used Same Mailing Address While Receiving Unemployment Compensation, Food Stamp Recipient is not Found to have Violated Program

Suit Alleges Employers made Misrepresentations and Underpaid Workers in Violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Agricultural Worker Protection Act

City Sued for Discrimination Against Employee by Failing to Act on Sexual Harassment Claim

Plaintiffs Allege That New York City Mayor Failed to Implement Transitional Jobs Program

Plaintiff Opposes Dismissal of Challenge to New York Garnishment Law Requiring Banks to Freeze Accounts with Exempt Funds

Social Security Act Forbids Subjecting Supplemental Security Income Benefits to Child Support Orders

Adult Payee for Cash Assistance Challenges North Carolina’s Procedures Regarding Public Assistance Debts Owed to State

Ninth Circuit Holds That Administrative Law Judge Must Complete Five-Step Disability Analysis Before Considering Whether Alcoholism Is Material Contributing Factor

Lifetime Mandatory Disqualification, Based on Criminal Record, from Employment with Social Service Agencies Violates Procedural Due Process

Immigrant Spouse Has an Enforceable Claim for Spousal Support Against Sponsor-Spouse Under 8 U.S.C. § 1183a

Court Awards Compensatory and Punitive Damages to Tenants for Landlord’s Failure to Provide Heat

Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Father’s Motion for Supervised Visitation

Research Institute May Be Liable in Negligence for Breach of Duty to Juvenile Subjects in Nontherapeutic Research on Lead Abatement Procedures

Finding Clear and Convincing Evidence of HHS Secretary’s Bad Faith, Court Awards Medicare Beneficiaries $173,922 in Attorney Fees

Class Action Alleges That Ohio Child Support Collection and Payment System Fails to Distribute Collected Support Timely and Accurately

Hearing Officer Finds Good Cause for Work Absence Despite Untimely Submission of Medical Verification Due to Treating Doctor’s Unavailability

Eleventh Circuit Holds That University of Georgia Award of “Diversity Bonus” to Nonwhite Applicants Violates Equal Protection Clause

Recipients Claim California Must Pay Benefits from Effective, Not Implementation, Date of New Food Stamp Rule on Inaccessible Assets Date

Subsidized Housing Tenants Seek Injunction Against Prepayment of Federally Insured Mortgages and Termination of Project-Based Section 8 Contracts

Applicants for Legal Residency Allege Chicago INS Unlawfully Accepts Defective Applications While Retaining Processing Fees and Initiating Deportation Proceedings

Eighth Circuit Holds That Due to Improper Class Certification, Civil Rights Damages Can't be Claimed Against City's Ordinance

Tenth Circuit Holds That Tribal Authorities Retained Sovereign Immunity for Removal of Child Despite Agency's Creation by State Agreement

Federal Circuit Allows Veteran to Claim Additional Attorney Fees Incurred in Defending Earlier Fee Award

Eighth Circuit Dismisses Action Against School District for Failing to Prevent Sexual Abuse by Teacher When it was Unaware of its Occurrence

Sixth Circuit Holds Plaintiff Succeeding in Constitutional Challenge to City Ordinance was a Prevailing Party and Entitled to an Award of Fees

Sixth Circuit Upholds Finding that TILA Claim was Not Tolled With Class Action Because it Raised Different Issues, Leaving it Outside Statute of Limitations Period

Seventh Circuit Holds State University Receiving Title IX Funds has Waived Eleventh Amendment Immunity Against Employment Discrimination Suit

Ninth Circuit Holds Guatemalan Citizen Eligible for Asylum Due to Likelihood of Persecution and Overturns Finding of Changed Country Conditions

Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appeal Panel holds that Failure to Obtain a Stay of Foreclosure Sale Renders Appeal Moot

Tenth Circuit holds Medicaid Recipient's Claim for Share of Unused Tobacco Settlement Funds is Barred by Federal Statute

Tenth Circuit Holds Due Process Challenge to IEP Filed on Last Day of School was Moot Because Child had Graduated

Tenth Circuit Finds Federal Suit Against Forcible Medication Barred by Rooker-Feldman Doctrine that Lower Federal Courts may not Review State Decisions

Seventh Circuit Holds Statement that Payments for Work Would Begin '30 Days From Completion' Complied with TILA

Fifth Circuit Holds Sheriffs Are Protected by Qualified Immunity for Mistakenly Seizing a Woman's House

First Circuit Affirms Jury Verdict Against Mental Hospital Workers for Unnecessarily Violent Physical Restraint

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Ninth Circuit Holds That Child Support Court Order was Correctly Enforced to Include Interest Under State Law, Despite Order's Silence on the Matter

Second Circuit Upholds State Law Extending the Right to Vote to Former Residents Outside the United States but not Those in U.S. Territories

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