Prisoner Does Not Have a Right of Action for Damages Against Private Contractor Operating Prison Facility

Nebraska Agrees to Change Its Vehicle Resource Limit for Food Stamp Recipients

Georgia Appeals to Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating Senate Redistricting Plan

Sixth Circuit Court Holds Tennessee Early Voting Provisions Do Not Conflict With Federal Law Regarding Voting Day

Supreme Court Overturns State Constitutional Amendment Prescribing That Ballots Identify Legislators Not in Favor of Federal Amendment

Eighth Circuit Holds ADA's Remedial Scheme is not Comprehensive so Individual State Officials may be Sued under Ex Parte Young Doctrine

Eighth Circuit Holds Employer was not Required to Retain Overstressed and Threatening Employee in Need of Extensive Counselling

Third Circuit Holds Federal Courts Have Habeas Jurisdiction over Petitions Filed by Aliens Subject to a Final Order of Removal for Either Criminal or Non-Criminal Reasons

Ninth Circuit Upholds CRO Finding Against Credit Repair Clinic and Remedies Imposed for Misrepresentations to Clients and Credit Agencies

Ninth Circuit finds Equitable Considerations may Allow Amendment Alleging Disability Discrimination Without Relating Back to Original Charge

Ninth Circuit Upholds Qui Tam Action Because the Allegations Hitherto were not Publicly Disclosed

Eighth Circuit holds that Mere Invocation of State Legal Procedures for Suspected Shoplifters does not Amount to State Action

Federal Circuit holds Apartment Owners Can Bring Suit Against Government for Abrogating Contractual Right to Prepay Mortgages

Federal Circuit holds Board of Veterans Appeals was able to Overrule Finding that New Evidence had been Presented

Eleventh Circuit Reverses Denial of SSI Disability Benefits due to Inadequate Hypothetical Question Posed to Vocational Expert

Eighth Circuit Affirms Findings that Student Wasn't Disabled and that Humiliation by Teacher Wasn't Tortious Infliction of Emotional Distress

Ninth Circuit Affirms Constitutionality of Rule Prohibiting Citation of Unpublished Opinions in Court

Ninth Circuit Applies Abstention to Claim that Inspection Ordinance Violates both State and Federal Constitutions

Fourth Circuit affirms Dismissal on Grounds of Immunity of FMLA Suit Alleging Retaliatory Demotion by State Employer

Ninth Circuit Reverses SSI Disability Benefits Denial for Inappropriate Reliance on Medical-Vocational Guidelines

Eleventh Circuit holds Prison Officers Using Excessive Force in Restraining Prisoner are not Entitled to Qualified Immunity

Third Circuit holds Student Loan Debt was not an Undue Burden and was thus Non-Dischargeable in Bankruptcy Proceedings

Second Circuit holds that although Tribe Retains Immunity, Abstention on Tribal Exhaustion Rule is Unjustified Where a Non-Member is Asserting a Right and Nothing is Pending in the Tribal Court

Second Circuit finds Medical School didn't Discriminate in Dismissing Student with Learning Disability

Eighth Circuit holds Abstention was Inappropriate over Hague Custody Petition Since Jurisdiction wasn't Discretionary

Eleventh Circuit holds that Attorneys Fees cannot be Awarded to a Pro Se Litigant

Second Circuit Dismisses for Mootness a Challenge to Election Laws Distinguishing Between Non-Registered and Non-Enrolled Voters

Denial of SSI Disability Benefits Reviewed

Second Circuit finds Regulation Invalid as it would allow Employees to have FMLA Protection without Working the Statutory Minimum Hours

Sixth Circuit holds that States Remain Liable to Suit Under the Rehabilitation Act, Unlike the ADA, due to Waiver of Immunity

Tenth Circuit Affirms Judgment Against SSI Recipients' Use of Trusts to Pass the Asset Test for Medicaid

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

Fourth Circuit holds Employer Liable for Beneficiary Assignments made under Coal Act after Date Set by Timing Provision

Seventh Circuit Finds no Reason to Make an Exception to the Limitations Period Which Attorney's Client did not Notify him of