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Abstention, Administrative Procedure Act, Administrative Procedures Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Arbitration, Attorneys fees, Attorneys' fees, Class actions, Commerce Clause, ERISA, Environment, Environmental law, Ex parte Young, Family Medical Leave Act, Federal regulations, Food Stamp Act, Harmless error, Housing, IDEA, Immigration, Implied rights of action, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Medicaid, Medicare, NEPA, Pleading standards, Preemption/Supremacy Clause, Preliminary injunction, Prisoners, Protection & advocacy agencies, Qualified immunity, RLUIPA, Rehabilitation Act, Rooker-Feldman doctrine, SORNA, Section 1981, Section 1983, Social Security, Sovereign immunity, Spending Clause, Standing, Statute of limitations, Stay, Supreme Court, TRICARE, Tenth Amendment, Third-party beneficiaries, Title IX, Title VII, Twombly, Voting Rights Act,- CA5: Factors Offered in Immigration Profiling Stop Not Considered Plausible for Reasonable Suspicion
- The court of appeals found the U.S.'s proffered reasons for an immigration stop unsatisfactory under the Fourth Amendment. ...
- S.D.Fla.: District Court Holds Mixed-Income Housing Development not Racially Discriminatory
- Summary judgment was granted to the state and the U.S. in a class action brought by displaced public housing residents....
- CA9: Entering Circuit Split, Ninth Circuit Holds Rehabilitation Act Applies to Independent Contractors
- The Ninth Circuit held independent contractors may bring claims under the Rehabilitation Act....
- N.D.Ill.: District Court Terminates Chicago Public School System Desegregation Decree
- An Illinois district court ended court supervision over the Chicago public school system....
- D.Puerto Rico: Older American Act Unenforceable Under § 1983
- A district court held that the OAA is unenforceable under § 1983....
- N.D.Iowa: Comprehensive Remedial Scheme in Statute Does Not Preclude § 1983 as Remedy
- A district court found that the remedial scheme in the DPPA did not preclude an action under § 1983. ...
- W.D.Tenn.: Over Objections of U.S., Court Modifies Remedial Order Because of Economic Downturn
- A district court allowed a significant modification of an order protecting developmentally disabled beneficiaries. ...
- CA5: Standing Granted to Sue Companies that Contribute to Global Warming
- The Fifth Circuit held companies who release greenhouse gases may be liable for global warming. ...
- N.D.Cal.: SSA Must Provide Blind and Visually-Impaired Beneficiaries Equal Communications Access
- CA District Court held that SSA must make communications to blind and visually-impaired beneficiaries accessible....
- N.D.Cal.: District Court Enjoins Cut of Medicaid Services to Disabled and Elderly
- A district court stopped the state from cutting IHSS to thousands of the disabled and elderly....
