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CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Senior Circuit Judge. In 1996, Congress amended the Social Security Act to preclude an award of disability benefits if drug or alcohol abuse is “a contributing factor material to the Commissioner’s determination that the individual is disabled.” 42 U.S.C. § 423(d)(2)(C). In this appeal, we confront an issue explicitly left open by our prior opinions, namely

936 F.Supp. 776 (1996) Regina KOENIG (SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX), Plaintiff, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner, Social Security, Defendant. Civil Action No. 95-2467-KHV. United States District Court, D. Kansas. July 31, 1996. *777 *778 *779 Joan H. Deans, J.H. Dean

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER VRATIL, District Judge. This matter is before the Court on plaintiffs Motion for Judgment (Doc. # 10) filed April 1, 1999. Plaintiff brings suit under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), seeking judicial review of the Commissioner’s decision to deny her benefits under the Social Security Act (“SSA”). For reasons set forth below, plaintiffs motion will be overruled and the Commi

258 F.Supp.2d 1154 (2003) Pamela E. MOSS, Plaintiff, v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Defendant. No. 01-2393-DJW. United States District Court, D. Kansas. February 28, 2003. *1156 Joan H. Deans, J.H. Deans Law Office, Raytown, MO, for Plaintiff. Melanie D. Caro, David D Zimmerman, Office of United States Attorney, Kansa

FERGUSON, Circuit Judge: Sharon Schneider appeals the district court’s decision affirming the administrative law judge’s (“ALJ”) denial of her application for disability benefits. The primary issue before us is whether the ALJ erred when he failed to consider five letters that Ms. Schneider submitted from friends and ex-employers who describe her functional limitations in the wo

368 F.Supp.2d 661 (2005) Betty TATE o/b/o Julian L. Tate, Plaintiff, v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Defendant. No. CIV.A. 04CV70115DT. United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division. April 18, 2005. *662 Victor L. Galea, Sr., Flint, MI, for Plaintiff. Vanessa Miree Mays, Detroit, MI, for Defendant.

Crew III, J. Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this Court pursuant to Tax Law § 2016) to review a determination of the Tax Appeals Tribunal which sustained a personal income tax assessment imposed under Tax Law article 22. Petitioner Herbert L. Kartiganer (hereinafter Kartiganer) is the founder and president of a consulting engineering firm presently known as Kartiganer Associates P. C. (hereina

715 N.W.2d 398 (2006) 270 Mich. App. 110 P.T. TODAY, INC., Brad Putvin, Gordon Allen, Michael Beauvais, Elaine Cooper, William Roth, Lana Baum, Timothy Bondy, David Gilboe, Diana Inch, Sandra Jenkins, Richard Feby, Mary Ann Koenig, Jeffrey Green, Osa Jackson-Wyatt, Richard Kohler, Jerome Malone, Sheila Isles, Parul Shah, and Martin Katenberg, Plaintiff-Appellants, and Barbara Johnson, Robert Baker, Karen Lehman Borin, Margaret

SULLIVAN, J. This is an appeal from an order of the probate court confirming a referee’s report recommending that decedent's will dated November 27, 1942, be admitted to probate and that decedent’s later will dated January 27, 1961, be refused admission to probate as a lost or destroyed will. The above order was made January 4, 1963. On the same day the court made a second order admitting the will to probate and appointing execu

************************************************ The “officially released” date that appears near the beginning of an opinion is the date the opinion will be published in the Connecticut Law Journal or the date it is released as a slip opinion. The operative date for the beginning of all time periods for the filing of postopin- ion motions and petitions for certification is the “offi- cially released” date appearing in the opinion. All opinions are subject to modification and technical cor

71 Cal.App.2d 739 (1945) F. W. KOENIG, as Trustee, Respondent, v. CHARLES G. JOHNSON, as State Treasurer, etc., et al., Appellants. Civ. No. 7132. California Court of Appeals. Third Dist. Nov. 24, 1945. Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General, John L. Nourse and Daniel N. Stevens, Deputies Attorney General, for Appellants. Latham & Watkins for Respondent.<

Harshbarger, Justice: Appellants are 86 employees of a Headstart (pre-school education) program operated by the non-profit, federally funded Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc. They are teachers, classroom aides, social workers, drivers and cooks, and have no employment tenure or continuing contracts. The Council terminates its Headstart employees at the end of each school year and then re-hires them the next fall if fun

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 16–0076 Filed January 27, 2017 BOARD OF WATER WORKS TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF DES MOINES, IOWA, Appellant, vs. SAC COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AS TRUSTEE OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, and CALHOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS and SAC COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AS JOINT TRUSTEES OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 2 AND 51 and BUENA VISTA COUNTY BOAR

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 16–0076 Filed January 27, 2017 BOARD OF WATER WORKS TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF DES MOINES, IOWA, Appellant, vs. SAC COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AS TRUSTEE OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, and CALHOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS and SAC COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AS JOINT TRUSTEES OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 2 AND 51 and BUENA VISTA COUNTY BOAR

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 16–0076 Filed January 27, 2017 Amended April 11, 2017 BOARD OF WATER WORKS TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF DES MOINES, IOWA, Appellant, vs. SAC COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AS TRUSTEE OF DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, and CALHOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS and SAC COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AS JOINT TRUSTEES OF DRAINAG

DISSENT CLAY, Circuit Judge, dissenting. In this petition for review, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (“Ohio”) asks us to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“the Secretary”) to follow his department’s own published regulations and grant federal Medicaid funds for Ohio’s juvenile pretrial detainees, a class of persons living “in a public institution for a temporary period pendi

SYLLABUS (This syllabus is not part of the opinion of the Court. It has been prepared by the Office of the Clerk for the convenience of the reader. It has been neither reviewed nor approved by the Supreme Court. Please note that, in the interest of brevity, portions of any opinion may not have been summarized.) 62-64 Main Street, L.L.C. and 59-61 Moore Street, L.L.C. v. Mayor and Council of the City of Hackensack; Pl

Grosse, J. ¶1 This case involves three separate public disclosure requests for documents from the Port of Olympia (Port) regarding its lease negotiations with Weyerhaeuser Company. Because the Port had already executed the lease with Weyerhaeuser at the time of this request, the Port’s reliance upon that exemption to withhold records was improper. Once an agency implements a policy or recommendation, records pertaining to that po

192 P.3d 926 (2008) Arthur S. WEST, Appellant, and David Koenig, Appellant, and Walter R. Jorgensen, an individual, and *927 Eve Johnson[†], an individual, Appellants, v. PORT OF OLYMPIA, a Washington municipal corporation, Respondent, and Weyerhaeuser Company, a Washington corporation, Respondent. No. 60723-5-I. Court of Appeals of Washington

186 F.Supp.2d 146 (2002) ESTATE OF Todd A. SMITH, et al. v. TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD, et al. No. 3:00CV2299(AHN). United States District Court, D. Connecticut. February 15, 2002. *147 James S. Brewer, Erin I. O'Neil-Baker, West Hartford, CT, Otto P. Witt, Bloomfield, CT, for Defendants. Carl R. Ficks, Jr., Brian P. Leaming, H