disability-benefits

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25-6174 Jill Capobianco v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security During an application for Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) and Disability Benefits (SSDI), under 20 § C.F.R. §§ 404.1527(c), SSR-2p, and SSR 16-3…
24-7366 Damien Deshawn Pugh v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security supplemental-security-income Whether social security applicants are unfairly subjected to political opinions that deviate from medical facts in disability determinations
24A1073 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-06 Presumed Complete disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security Whether law enforcement may conduct warrantless, forcible home searches of Social Security disability applicants without violating their Fourth Amendm…
24A632 Patrick Comack v. Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete administrative-determination disability-benefits medical-impairment neurodegenerative-disorder pro-se-litigation social-security Whether the Social Security Administration's determination of a claimant's neurodegenerative disorder impairment requires a more comprehensive evaluat…
23A1086 Charlie R. Murse, Jr. v. Mary Murse Third Circuit 2024-06-05 Presumed Complete civil-rights disability-benefits garnishment pro-se social-security ssdi-protection Whether 42 U.S. Code § 407 protects Social Security Disability Insurance benefits from garnishment or civil rights violations in a dispute involving d…
23A1021 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete disability-benefits erisa judicial-review plan-administrator procedural-violations standard-of-review Whether procedural violations by an ERISA plan administrator warrant a de novo standard of review instead of an abuse of discretion standard when eval…
23-999 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
23-779 David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Amici (3) accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Federal Circuit misinterpreted 38 U.S.C. § 5103(a)(1) to allow VA to issue evidentiary notice only before receiving a veteran's claim
23-339 J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits New Jersey 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment Whether ALJs violate the rule-of-law by depriving petitioners of their disability-pensions on credibility-grounds
23-301 James E. Workman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud Whether the criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud required proof that the defendant understood his obli…
22-1089 Ray James Foster v. Deborah Lynn Foster Michigan 2023-05-09 Denied 38-usc-5301 collateral-estoppel disability-benefits disability-law federal-preemption judicial-convenience res-judicata state-court-doctrine veterans-benefits May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute?
22-5798 Gregory K. Parsons v. Connie K. Copeland Parsons, et al. Texas 2022-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP apportionment-claims disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption judicial-review military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction takings veterans-benefits Whether a state court can override a VA decision denying an apportionment of a veteran's disability benefits
21-6344 Joseph J. Snyder v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP administrative-regulation amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis department-of-veterans-affairs disability-benefits disability-compensation presumptive-service-connection regulatory-creation service-connection statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Department of Veterans Affairs exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating 38 C.F.R. § 3.318, which provides veterans with presumptiv…
21-465 James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the term 'relevant official service department records' in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s 'reconsideration' provision encompasses all records that …
21-432 Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactive di…
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan 2021-04-28 Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits Congress's-military-powers-preempt-state-law-on-veterans-benefits
20-851 Roger Hawes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied 42-usc-1983 commingled-funds disability-benefits due-process inmate-trust-fund preemption section-1983 section-5301 statutory-protection veterans-benefits Whether veterans' disability benefits deposited in an inmate trust fund account are protected from being used for a state-mandated medical co-payment …
20-345 Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-16 Denied Response Waived civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder…
20-267 Sean Braunstein v. Jericka Braunstein New Hampshire 2020-09-02 Denied Relisted (2) child-support disability-benefits federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction military-compensation military-powers supremacy-clause veterans-benefits veterans-judicial-review-act Where Congress's enumerated military powers preempt all state law concerning disposition of military benefits, and Congress has not affirmatively gran…
20-105 John J. Davis, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2020-07-31 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-law-judge appointments-clause disability-benefits exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security Whether a claimant seeking disability benefits or supplemental security income under the Social Security Act must exhaust an Appointments Clause chall…
20-5205 Jamaal A. Lewis, Sr. v. Hector Joyner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits due-process military-sexual-trauma veterans-affairs Whether the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has the authority to determine claims for disability benefits based on military sexual trauma
19-1442 Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law …
19-8571 Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Ohio 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety?
19-938 Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services Second Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged…
19-7296 In Re Gilbert M. Martinez 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law disability-benefits due-process evidence gerd medical-evidence property-tax-exemption rheumatoid-arthritis social-security social-security-administration-discretion social-security-disability Did the Social Security Administration abuse its discretion holding that plaintiff is ineligible for Social Security disability benefits after claiman…
19-6764 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5, Due Process Clause, compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statutory…
19-6702 In Re Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-writ pro-se-litigation social-security standing transfer Whether Petitioner has a Right for direct appeal to this court?
19-242 Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation Whether 'regular occupation' refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's 'actual job du…
19-221 Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit 2019-08-20 Dismissed Amici (3) administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation Whether the Commissioner of Social Security can impose monetary sanctions on a disability benefits recipient for failing to report unpaid volunteer wo…
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Whether and to what extent does the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit possess the Authority to permit a Disability Pension Plan u…
19-146 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac…
18A1327 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion disability-benefits erisa insurance-plan own-occupation procedural-history Whether a district court's interpretation of an ERISA disability plan's 'own occupation' provision constitutes an abuse of discretion when determining…
18-9480 Gregory Stanley Roberts v. Inservco Insurance Services Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP act-534 administrative-determination administrative-law agency-determination benefits-denial disability-benefits due-process employment-law injury-claim light-duty workers-compensation workplace-injury youth-development-center Whether the Insurance Service's denial of Act 534 benefits and light duty work for the petitioner's second injury was proper under the relevant worker…
18-5421 Sheila L. Gaines v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal administrative-law arthritis civil-rights disability disability-benefits due-process employment medical-evidence medical-records social-security standing Whether the Social Security Administration improperly denied disability benefits to the petitioner despite medical evidence of her advanced arthritis …
18-5192 Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services Ohio 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection in the denial of disability financial assistance by the Ohio Department of Job and …
18-5026 Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's discrimination claim against respondent