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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits |
| Title: | GISBRECHT v. BARNHART |
| Date: | 05/28/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-131 |
| Summary: | 42 U.S.C. section 406(b)(1)(A), authorizing that an attorney representing a Social Security claimant receive 25 percent of "past-due" benefits awarded, does not displace contingent-fee agreements within the statutory ceiling, but instead instructs courts to review fees under those agreements for "reasonableness." |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Benefits |
| Title: | BARNHART v. WALTON |
| Date: | 03/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1937 |
| Summary: | The Social Security Admin.'s interpretation that the 12-month duration requirement in a statute that authorizes disability and SSI payments to individuals applies to both the "inability" to engage in work as well as the "impairment," was within its lawful interpretative authority; thus, benefits to worker denied because his inability to engage in substantial gainful activity lasted only 11 months. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Benefits, Landlord Tenant Law |
| Title: | DEP'T OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEV. v. RUCKER |
| Date: | 03/26/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1770, 00-1781 |
| Summary: | Section 1437d(l)(6) of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1998, 42 U.S.C. 11901(3), gives local public housing authorities discretion to evict public housing tenants when either a member of the tenant's household or a guest engages in drug-related criminal activity, regardless of whether the tenant knew, or had reason to know, about such activity. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Benefits, Health Law |
| Title: | WISCONSIN DEPT. OF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVS. v. BLUMER |
| Date: | 02/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-952 |
| Summary: | The "income-first" method used by most states to calculate Medicaid eligibility for nursing home residents, which requires that potential income transfers from the institutionalized spouse be deemed "community spouse's income" for purposes of determining such eligibility, does not conflict with the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, enacted to protect the financial well-being of spouses of institutionalized nursing home residents. |