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| Court: | New York Court of Appeals |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Godfrey v. Spano |
| Date: | 11/23/09 |
| Case Number: | 147 |
| Summary: | In a state constitutional challenge to two directives by executive and county officials that recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages for purposes of public employee health insurance coverage and other benefits, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where plaintiffs failed to specify a circumstance where taxpayer funds were expended as a result of the executive order at issue that would not have been expended in the absence of the order. |
| Court: | U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law |
| Title: | Perry v. Prop. 8 Official Proponents |
| Date: | 11/19/09 |
| Case Number: | 09-16959 |
| Summary: | In an action challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative restricting the definition of marriage to the union of a man and a woman, denial of a prospective intervenor's application to intervene is affirmed where the existing parties would adequately represent its interests. |
| Court: | California Appellate Districts |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Family Law, Government Law |
| Title: | In re Marriage of Kacik |
| Date: | 11/19/09 |
| Case Number: | G041274 |
| Summary: | Trial court's order modifying support, where the child support order ended in August 2006 and no modification request was brought until February 2008, is reversed as: 1) it cannot be sustained on the basis of Family Code section 4326 and 2) where section 4326 was the sole basis for the modification, the order cannot be sustained at all. |
| Court: | U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law |
| Title: | Burke v. County of Alameda |
| Date: | 11/10/09 |
| Case Number: | 08-15658 |
| Summary: | In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that defendants interfered with plaintiffs' constitutional right of familial association by removing their child without a protective custody warrant, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed in part where it was reasonable for officer-defendant to believe the child's statement that she had been abused at the time she spoke with him. However, the order is vacated in part where local government units such as defendant-county are not entitled to the qualified-immunity defense. |
| Court: | U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Topic: | Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Debt Collection, Family Law, Government Law |
| Title: | In re: Smith |
| Date: | 11/06/09 |
| Case Number: | 09-9005 |
| Summary: | Order of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel reversing an order of the Bankruptcy Court is affirmed as a late alimony payment penalty was not a domestic support obligation, and as such, the ex-wife's claim was a general unsecured claim not entitled to priority status and consequently dischargeable. |
| Court: | U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Miller v. Nichols |
| Date: | 11/04/09 |
| Case Number: | 09-1174 |
| Summary: | In plaintiffs' constitutional challenge to the state's removal of their child after termination proceedings and motion for injunctive relief to prevent a foster family's adoption of the child, district court's dismissal of the case is affirmed where: 1) the district court correctly determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review plaintiffs' motion for injunctive relief to prevent the child's adoption pursuant to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine; and 2) the factual issues underlying plaintiffs' claims were addressed by the state court and are barred by issue preclusion. |
| Court: | California Appellate Districts |
| Topic: | Family Law |
| Title: | M.T. v. Sup. Ct. |
| Date: | 10/30/09 |
| Case Number: | A125704 |
| Summary: | Petitioner's request for an extraordinary writ review of a juvenile court's order for a Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26 hearing to consider modifying the permanent plan for two of his three children from long-term foster care to adoption is denied as petitioner did not have a right to a contested hearing. |
| Court: | California Appellate Districts |
| Topic: | Family Law, Juvenile Law |
| Title: | In re Calvin P. |
| Date: | 10/27/09 |
| Case Number: | D054830 |
| Summary: | Juvenile court's decision requiring the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency to provide family maintenance services for plaintiff and her children is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the order requiring family maintenance services for father and the children is affirmed; but 2) the order for family maintenance services for mother is reversed and instead ordered that she be provided reasonable reunification services. |
| Court: | California Appellate Districts |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Family Law, Juvenile Law |
| Title: | In re J.B. |
| Date: | 10/26/09 |
| Case Number: | F056765 |
| Summary: | Juvenile court's findings and orders regarding defendant's two children is affirmed as there was sufficient evidence to support the jurisdictional findings and the orders removing the children from her custody. |
| Court: | U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | Long v. Teachers' Ret. Sys. of State of Illinois |
| Date: | 10/23/09 |
| Case Number: | 08-3094 |
| Summary: | In plaintiff's employment discrimination and retaliation action against her former employer, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where, because plaintiff failed to present evidence that defendant acted with retaliatory intent when it fired her, a jury could not infer that defendant fired her because she took FMLA leave. |