Housing Authority’s Decision to Terminate Public Housing Resident’s Lease for Failing to Report Gambling Income and Permitting an Unauthorized Boarder to Live on the Premises Upheld

Bankruptcy Code, Section 525(a) Does Not Prevent Public Housing Agency from Obtaining Relief from Automatic Stay to Evict Tenant for Failure to Pay Pre-Petition Rent

Amici Curiae Brennan Center for Justice Argues That New Jersey Court Improperly Struck Down--as Preempted--County Living Wage Law

Santa Fe Living Wage Ordinance Upheld Against Charge that Ordinance Violated State Constitutional Provisions on Municipal Powers, Equal Protection, Due Process, and Eminent Domain

Court Set Aside Housing Authority’s Termination of Tenant’s Rent Subsidy Assistance for Failure to Submit Legally Sufficient Evidence Justifying Termination

Massachusetts Section 8 Tenant With Restraining Order Against Estranged Husband Is Discharged From Her Unexpired Lease Because He Knows Her Address

Housing Authority’s Failure to Consider Lesser Sanction Than Termination of Section 8 Assistance Was Abuse of Discretion

Class Action of Victims of Identity Theft Whose Names Appear In Criminal Records Allege Massachusetts Board Continually Violates Privacy and Due Process Rights

Public Housing Tenants Complaint for Relocation Assistance Not Barred for Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies

Class Action Complaint Alleges that Florida County’s Policy of Strip Searching Women Not Charged with Felonies Violates 4th Amendment, 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Rights

9th Circuit Lets Stand Consent Decree Requiring Idaho to Provide Services to Disabled Children; Idaho Does Not Have Sovereign Immunity

Attorney Does Not Have the Authority to Dismiss Minor’s Appeal Based on Counsel’s Assessment of Minor’s Best Interest

4th Circuit Affirmed That Charleston County’s At –Large Election of Its Council Diluted Minority Voting Strength in Violation of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act of 1965

California’s Legal Standard of “Physically Dangerous to the Public” Required for Extended Civil Commitment of Juvenile Sex Offenders Violates Due Process

Eighth Circuit: Prison’s Refusal to Allow Bilingual Inmate to Write Letters in Spanish to English Speaking Family Members Did Not Violate First Amendment

Inmate Appeals Dismissal of First Amendment Access-to-Courts Claim and Eighth Amendment Claim for Second-Hand Smoke Exposure

9th Cir: Children Conceived Through In-Vitro Fertilization After Father’s Death Are Legitimate Under Arizona Law and Entitled to Social Security Benefits

Eighth Circuit Reverses Administrative Law Judge’s Decision That Disability Claimant with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Depression Is Not Disabled

10th Cir: ALJ Erroneously Ignored Treating Physicians’ Opinions in Finding Disability Claimant with Severe Pain Not Disabled

6th Circuit: When Deportation Is Pending, Court Retains Jurisdiction over Appeal from Naturalization Denial But Scope of Review Is Limited

3rd Circuit: Preliminary Injunction Test Applies to Petition for Stay of Removal But Substance Abuse Conviction Deprives Court of Jurisdiction

Stipulated Judgment in Eviction Action Does Not Bar Subsequent Fair Housing Act Claim in Federal Court

Tenants Who Received Relocation Benefits Following Order to Vacate Unsafe Building Retain Possessory Interest; Court Awards Damages

Finding That Extent and Limiting Nature of Disability Applicant’s Pain, Supported by Medical Evidence, Passed the “Step Two” De Minimus Threshold, Third Circuit Reverses Disability Denial

California Supreme Court Holds That Lower Court Did Not Err in Juvenile Dependency Permanent Plan Hearing by Ordering Legal Guardian to Determine Visitation

Eighth Circuit Holds That Administrative Law Judge Erred in Discounting Treating Physician’s Opinion That Disability Benefits Applicant Was Unable to Work

Where Administrative Law Judge’s Rejection of Subjective Pain Testimony Was Unsupported by Evidence and Eligibility Turned Entirely on Credibility of Pain Testimony, Ninth Circuit Remands for Award of Benefits

Fifth Circuit: Illiteracy of Borrowers Who Signed Arbitration Agreements Incident to Consumer Loans Did Not Render Agreements Unconscionable Under Mississippi Law

Seventh Circuit: Housing Authority, a Municipal Corporation, Is Subject to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act And Violated the Act When It Discharged Its Police Officers

Employee’s Claim That His Discharge Violated Family and Medical Leave Act Fails on Summary Judgment But Failure-to-Advise Claim Under Act Survives

Seventh Circuit: Bankruptcy Code Does Not “Preempt” Claims under Section 1692 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act For Post-Bankruptcy Dunning

Second Circuit: Changes in Federalism Law and Factual Circumstances Do Not Warrant Terminating Monitoring Provisions of 1983 Consent Decree Between New York Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board and Class of Unemployment Insurance Claimants