Cases

642 F.3d 1202 (2011) Laura A. CYR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Laura A. Cyr, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, an Illinois corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Channel Technologies, Inc. Group Long Term Disability Insurance Program, an employee benefit plan; Channel Technologies, Inc., in its capacity as Administrator

ORDER KOZINSKI, Chief Judge: Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges, it is ordered that this case be heard en banc pursuant to Circuit Rule 35-3. Judge PREGERSON did not participate in the deliberations or vote in this case.

525 F.Supp.2d 1165 (2007) Laura A. CYR, Plaintiff, v. RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO., et al., Defendants. No. CV 06-01585 DDP (RCx). United States District Court, C.D. California. November 19, 2007. *1166 *1167 Joseph A. Creitz, Joseph A. Creitz Law Offices, Joseph A. Garofolo, Joseph A.

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT LAURA A. CYR,  Plaintiff-Appellee, v. No. 07-56869 RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE  D.C. No. INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois CV-06-01585-DDP corporation, Defendant-Appellant.  LAURA A. CYR, 

629 F.3d 893 (2010) Laura A. CYR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Laura A. Cyr, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, an Illinois corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Channel Technologies, Inc. Group Long Term Disability Insurance Program, an employee benefit plan; Channel Technologies, Inc., in its capacity as Administrator

HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge: A third-party administrator of medical benefits plans denied claims made on behalf of two patients who received treatment from the same medical provider. The district court found that (1) the plan administrator incorrectly interpreted the plans to deny the claims in a way that abused its discretion and (2) the administrator may be held liable for its wr

Order Denying Motion To Dismiss Second Cause Op Action Re: Dkt. No. 19 . YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS, United States District Judge Plaintiff John Zisk (“Zisk”) filed suit bringing two causes of action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA” or “the Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. The first cause of action seeks to recover long-term disabilit

*********************************************** The “officially released” date that appears near the be- ginning of each opinion is the date the opinion will be pub- lished in the Connecticut Law Journal or the date it was released as a slip opinion. The operative date for the be- ginning of all time periods for filing postopinion motions and petitions for certification is the “officially released” date appearing in the opinion. All opinions are subject to modification and technical corr

OPINION CLIFTON, Circuit Judge: Ramiro Ramos-Medina appeals from his conviction and sentence for illegally reentering the United States after previously having been deported. We conclude that Ramos’s prior conviction for burglary under California Penal Code § 459 qualified as a crime of violence under the immigration laws and for sentencing purposes. We als

ORDER This court’s opinion, filed June 21, 2012, is amended by inserting the words “first-degree” before “burglary” in the following places: on page 7304 of the slip opinion, in the second sentence of the first paragraph; on page 7305, in the third sentence of the second full paragraph; on page 7306, in the first sentence under the heading “A. Ramos’s Prior Deportation;” on page 7307, in the first sentence of the first full paragraph

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , No. 09-50408 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 3:08-cr-03418-JM-1 RAMIRO RAMOS-MEDINA , ORDER AND Defendant-Appellant. AMENDED OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Jeffrey T.

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT GONZALO P. CURIEL, District Judge. Before the Court are the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment, their oppositions and their replies. On June 7, 2013, the Court held a hearing. (Dkt. No. 247.) Matthew Butler, Esq. and Andrew Myers, Esq. appeared on behalf of Plaintiffs and Ashley A

370 F.Supp.2d 79 (2005) Lamar JOHNSON, Plaintiff, v. Paul A. QUANDER, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, et al., Defendants. No. Civ.A. 04-448(RBW). United States District Court, District of Columbia. March 21, 2005. *80 *81

OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge. These cases, which we address in tandem, raise the issue whether Congress’s repeal of discretionary waivers of deportation has an impermissible retroactive effect when applied to aliens who were convicted at trial before the date of the repeal. In St. Cyr v. INS, 229 F.3d 406 (2d Cir.2000), which the Supreme Court upheld in INS v. St. Cyr, 533 U.S. 289, 121 S.Ct. 2271, 150 L.Ed.2d

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued March 6, 2020 Decided June 23, 2020 No. 19-5298 MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK, ET AL., APPELLEES v. CHAD F. WOLF, ACTING SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, ET AL., APPELLANTS Appeal from the United States District Court

529 F.Supp.2d 543 (2008) Sameh Semi S. KHOUZAM, Petitioner v. Thomas H. HOGAN, et al., Respondents. No. 3:CV-07-0992. United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania. January 10, 2008. *544 *545 *546 Alice Clapman, Amrit Singh, Judy Rabinovitz, Lee Gelernt,

SELYA, Circuit Judge. In 1986, the Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO) took a small, tentative step toward regulating the profit margins of gasoline wholesalers. The wholesalers treated this move as a declaration of war. They mounted a courtroom counteroffensive and succeeded in obtaining an injunction against the enforcement of DACO’s embryonic regulation. Followi

349 F.3d 42 UNITED STATES of America, Appellant,v.Osama AWADALLAH, Defendant-Appellee. Docket No. 02-1269. United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Argued: April 10, 2003. Decided: November 7, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED James B. Comey, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of

319 F.3d 93 Hopeton Anthony RANKINE, Paul R. Lawrence, Petitioners-Appellants,v.Janet RENO, Attorney General of the United States, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents-Appellees. andLouis Eloka Eze, Petitioner-Appellant,v.James J. Ingham, District Director of Immigration and Naturalization Services, Respondent-Appellee. Docket No. 01-2135(L). D

AMENDED MEMORANDUM *195AND ORDER1 SARIS, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION New York City and forty-two New York counties have brought suit against numerous pharmaceutical manufacturers and subsidiaries alleging Medicaid fraud in violation of the federal Best Prices Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1