Ninth Circuit Holds That by Receiving Rehabilitation Act Funds California Waives Sovereign Immunity to Section 504 Claims

Sixth Circuit Holds INS isn't Authorized to Reinstate Order of Removal for Alien who Re-entered the Country Before the Enabling Statute Came into Effect

Sixth Circuit Dismisses FMLA Retaliatory Dismissal Claim for Inability to Show Company had Policy of Offering Transfers

Seventh Circuit Affirms Finding that Lung Condition was Caused by Coal Mining Conditions and not Asthma as Being Supported by Substantial Evidence

Sixth Circuit Finds Issue of Material Fact Existed in TILA Claim Against Automobile Dealer for Less Than Systematic Non-Disclosure

Eleventh Circuit Holds District has Achieved Non-Segregated Status by New School Site Selections

Federal Circuit finds no Private Right of Action for Breaches of the Indian Housing Act and Annual Contributions Contract

Ninth Circuit finds Prison Immune from Liability for Placing a Hold on Inmate's Overdrawn Veterans Benefits Trust Account

Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for Eighth Circuit Affirms Discharge of Student Loan Debt

Eleventh Circuit Holds Former Employee May File ADA Suit and Further that Differential Fringe Benefit Levels can Violate the Act

Ninth Circuit Finds Regulation Automatically Reinstating Order of Removal to be Constitutional

Seventh Circuit Holds Police not Immune for Indifference Leading to Death of Diabetes-Suffering Detainee

Ninth Circuit Holds State Parole Board’s Acceptance of Federal Rehabilitation Act Funds Constitutes Waiver of 11th Amendment Immunity From Rehabilitation Act Claims

Ninth Circuit Grants Asylum to Bulgarian Refugee Persecuted on Account of her Religious and Political Beliefs

Eleventh Circuit Holds FMLA Retaliation Protections Extend to Former Employee not Rehired

Tenth Circuit Affirms Denial of SSI Disability Benefits for Insufficient Evidence

D.C. Circuit Holds EEOC's Determination that Pregnancy Discrimination Act Applies Retroactively is Unreviewable Until the Commission Commences Legal Action Against an Employer

Seventh Circuit Holds Statute of Limitations was Tolled while Prisoner was Frustrated in Attempts to Pursue Administrative Remedies

Ninth Circuit finds UPS Unreasonably Refused to Accommodate Hearing-Impaired Driver not Certified by DOT, Notwithstanding Logistical Defenses and Terms of Collective Bargaining Agreement

Sixth Circuit Affirms Immunity Finding for Employer Prison as Fourth Amendment Protection from Strip Searches was not Clearly Established at the Time

Seventh Circuit Holds Bank's 80/20 Program did not Violate TILA in Issuing Two Loans and Two Disclosure Statements for a Single Transaction

U.S. Supreme Court Partially Affirms Second Circuit Ruling That Prior Class Settlement Does Not Bar Veterans’ Claim Against Agent Orange Manufacturers

Seventh Circuit Holds Employee Didn't give Sufficient Notice of Illness to Make FMLA Claim After Dismissal

Third Circuit Reverses Award of Attorneys Fees Against U.S. on Grounds that Broad-Sweeping Action to Prevent Terrorism meets Substantial Justification

Ninth Circuit finds that Likelihood of Persecution for Member of Minority Muslim Faction is not Sufficient to Justify Witholding of Deportation

Seventh Circuit holds Inclusion of Insurance Fee in Amount Financed to Accord with TILA

Second Circuit Dismisses for Mootness a Motion in Long-Running Litigation over Department's Failure to Adequately Provide Notice and Opportunity for a Hearing before Reducing Home-Based Care Allowances

Ninth Circuit Finds no Due Process Violation in SSI Commissioner's Failure to Notify Applicant that Reconsideration can be Sought

Family and Medical Leave Act Claim Not Barred by Eleventh Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court Rules

Equal Access to Justice Act Fee Application May Be Amended After Filing Period Ends to Cure Failure to Allege That Government’s Position Was Not Substantially Justified, U.S. Supreme Court Rules

Fifth Circuit Finds that Amendment Deleting 'Silent' from Provision Allowing Time for Prayer or Meditation in Schools was Religiously Motivated, Hence Unconstitutional

Fourth Circuit Denies Attorneys Fees Under the Common-Benefit Doctrine Following Successful Challenge to Constitutionality of VAWA Statute

Where Wisconsin Works Agency Incorrectly and Unconscionably Failed to Process TANF Application, Petitioner's Only Available Remedy Was to Reapply

Agency's Failure to Process Documentation Stating Individual Cannot Work, and Subsequently Applying Sanctions, is not Actionable

District Court Sets Aside HUD's Action of Expanding Scope of HOPE VI Project to Include Another Development Because HUD Failed to Find Development Qualified as "Severely Distressed Public Housing

District Court Ruling that Illinois Office of Banks and Real Estate Predatory Lending Regulations Are Not Preempted by Federal Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act Reversed by Seventh Circuit With Direction to Determine Which State Regulations Are Preempted

Payment of Prepetition Attorney Fees, Utility and Repair Charges Not Required for Assumption of Public Housing Lease as Part of Chapter 13 Plan

Employee Who Cannot Perform Manual Tasks Necessary to Her Job But Can Perform Manual Tasks of Daily Living Is Not Disabled

Michigan May Not Calculate Medicaid Eligibility and Benefits Differently for Nonparent and Parent Caretakers

Mortgagor’s Defense Under HOEPA and Allegation of Fraud in Inducement of Loan Preclude Summary Judgment of Foreclosure

Landlord Not Required to Serve Housing Authority with Notice of Nonrenewal of Section 8 Lease

Court May Order Retroactive Refund of Garnished Funds If Debtor Proves Hardship Exemption From Inception of Garnishment

Tenants’ Challenge to Cleanup Plan for Ft. Lauderdale Superfund Site Is Dismissed

Attorney General Sues Pooler, Georgia, for Fair Housing Act Violations

LSC-Funded Plaintiffs Argue In Writ of Certiorari That LSC’s “Physical Separation” Requirement Violates the First Amendment And Further That 2nd Circuit’s Decision Contravenes Supreme Court’s "Unconstitutional Burdens" Doctrine