Motion to Dismiss Denied Where Claim Philadelphia Violated ADA by Denying Disabled the Means to Vote in Same Manner as Other Voters

Farm Owners May Install Mobile Homes to House Migrant Farm Workers Despite Town Zoning Ordinance Regulating Minimum Size of Single-Family Dwellings

Trial Court Reverses Administrative Agency's Denial of Hearing Because Wisconsin Works Participant Did Not Receive Proper Notice Under Agency Practice

Monetary Sanctions Against Wisconsin Works Participant Reversed Because Agency Failed to Draft Employability Plans Properly

Plaintiffs Sue Prudential Insurance Co. for Racial Redlining in Its Homeowners Insurance Coverage and Practices in Violation of Fair Housing Act

Petitioners Seek Adoption of Rules Regarding “Hardship Extensions” for Persons Reaching TANF Limit

New York High Court Specifies What Evidence of Notice Is Required for Tenant to Survive Summary Judgment in Lead Poisoning Case

Pollution Exclusion Clause in Landlord’s Insurance Policy Does Not Bar Coverage for Lead Paint Injuries

Low-Income Families Oppose City’s Motion to Dismiss Their Challenge to Planned Demolition of Public Housing Development

U.S. Citizen Alleges Illegal Arrest and Search by U.S. Border Patrol Agents

Agency may not Terminate Benefits Without Advance Notice

Agency Should Have Assessed Individual's Disability Before Forming Work Program

Agency Ordered to Recalculate Benefits After it Failed to Make an Employability Plan

Agency did not Account for Individual's Known Barriers in Forming Employability Plan, Therefore Cannot Apply Sanctions

Agency Improperly Sanctioned Benefits for Individual not Actually Assigned Work Activities

State Department did not Take Adequate Measures to Assess Recipient's Incapacity Before it Applied Sanctions

Lack of Participation in Work Program due to Inconsistent Medication Held to be Beyond the Participant's Control

Mental Health Problems Satisfied Good Cause to Miss Required Hours of State Work Program

Texas Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision that Consumer Advocate Group is Not Entitled to Attorney Fees After Challenging Increase in Electricity Rates

HUD Sued for Approving Termination of Section 8 Tenancies Without 1 Year Notice

Housing Authority that Sought to Evict Tenant for Rent Nonpayment Settles Case Once it is Discovered Tenant was Entitled to Income Disregard

Federal Circuit Dismisses Challenge to Denial of Veterans Benefits, Ostensibly for Misapplying Regulations, Finding it to be an Appeal on the Merits

Eighth Circuit finds Due Process Satisfied by a Hearing After Expulsion from School Sports Team

Seventh Circuit Holds That Due Process Requires Notice Before Officials Enforce Out-of-State Default Order on Custody

Eighth Circuit Allows Separate Claim for Attorney Fees because of Ambiguity in Offer of Judgment

Sixth Circuit finds Social Workers Immune from Suit for Acts Leading to Erroneous Removal of Child

Seventh Circuit finds ADA Suit Estopped due to Employee's Previous Assertion of Total Disability

Fifth Circuit finds Housing Authority's Invocation of Trespassing Regulation Against Non-Resident Political Volunteers is Unconstitutional

Fifth Circuit finds EEOC had not Proven that Information Sought, Regarding Employees' Sex, was Relevant to Racial Discrimination Case

Eighth Circuit cites Waiver of Immunity in Ordering Reinstatement of ADA Claim Against State

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Housing Authority’s Eviction of “Ignorant Tenant” Whose Son Engaged in Drug-Related Activity

Fourth Circuit finds State Agency not Immune to FMLA Suit for its Leave Policy that Fathers Cannot be Primary Caregivers

Seventh Circuit holds Award of SSI Partly Based on Applicant's Age does not Invalidate Earlier Denials that were Barred from using it as a Consideration

Sixth Circuit Affirms District Court's Jurisdiction to Enforce Settlement Agreement that wasn't Incorporated Explicitly at Case's Dismissal

Eighth Circuit Approves Jury Instructions Leading to Dismissal of Wrongful Termination Suit for Apparent Conflict between Company Child Abuse Reporting Policy and State Law Requirements

First Circuit Allows New Evidence for Alien with Felony Conviction to Appeal Removal Order on Grounds of Derived Citizenship

Seventh Circuit Affirms Verdict Against Municipal Body for not Accommodating Disability of Building Permit Applicants

Eleventh Circuit overturns ERISA Penalty Award for Employee's Family Members as they are Health Plan Beneficiaries, not Participants

First Circuit Dismisses Constitutional Challenge to Child Support Recovery Act

Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Prison Officers for Failure to Act on Knowledge of Impending Attack Upon Inmate

Eighth Circuit Reverses Denial of SSI Benefits Unsupported by Substantial Evidence

First Circuit holds Filing of Proof of Claim in Bankruptcy Court is not Shielded by the Eleventh Amendment from Compulsory Counterclaim

Ninth Circuit holds that Appeal from Denial of SSI Benefits should have been Allowed because of Evidence that Expert Testimony was Inappropriately Disqualified

Ninth Circuit holds Equal Protection is not Violated by Provision for Disretionary Relief to Aliens Barred Entry but not to Removable Permanent Residents

Sixth Circuit finds that Bankruptcy Code's Exception to Automatic Stay may not be used to Further a Private Right under the FLSA

Fifth Circuit holds Convention Against Torture doesn't Impart Jurisdiction to Withold Deportation when Ordered for Criminal Offense

Sixth Circuit Applies Abstention to Due Process Challenge to Statute Revoking Licenses of Persons Delinquent in Child Support Payments

Fifth Circuit Dismisses Second Amendment Challenge to Regulation Prohibiting Carriage of Firearms by Persons Subject to a Protection Order

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