04/16/2015
The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday afternoon in a case challenging the constitutionality of voluntary workers compensation in Oklahoma.
In an email Wednesday claimants attorney Bob Burke said oral arguments in Pilkington and Lee v. State of Oklahoma and Doak drew
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01/21/2011
An injured worker with a 7 permanent partial disability rating lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of a 2003 amendment to the Workers' Compensation Act because he can't show that he would be entitled to additional benefits if the statute had not been changed the Florida 3rd District
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06/01/2009
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Iowas Smoke-Free Air Act has been dismissed in Polk County district court.
District Court Judge Glenn E. Pille dismissed the lawsuit which was filed July 1 2008 by Choose Freedom Iowa the Iowa Bar
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02/18/2016
The California Supreme Court is not going to weigh in on the constitutionality of the state's independent medical review scheme.
It's also not going to revoke the imprimatur of the 1st District Court of Appeals on the matter.
Last October the 1st DCA declared that IMR "is fundamentally fair
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04/02/2021
Supreme Court. Mendota served the state attorney general with the petition for a writ of certiorari as well as a copy of the WCCA's decision and the statement of the case.
In February 2021 the attorney general filed a notice of intervention "for the limited purpose of defending the constitutionality
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11/29/2017
New Yorks highest court has provided guidance to a federal appellate court that is deciding the constitutionality of a claims-revival statute for workers who participated in the cleanup of the Sept. 11 2001 terrorist attacks but it declined the invitation to suggest a proper disposition for
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03/31/2015
court to consider constitutionality issues in four separate cases. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear one pending constitutional challenge and Burke is awaiting word on another petition for review on an exclusive-remedy case.
Were 14 months into the new law and all these controversies
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02/23/2015
' compensation scheme is unconstitutional.
CFS and Freeney filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint asserting that the circuit court was wholly without jurisdiction to determine the applicability of the act or to determine its constitutionality.
After the circuit court judge denied their motion
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01/04/2016
The 1st District Court of Appeal rejected a worker's challenge to the constitutionality of Florida's statutory payment scheme for impairment income benefits.
Case Beck v. MMI Dining Systems No. 1D15-2767 12312015 published.
Facts Thomas Beck worked for MMI Dining Services. He suffered
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04/20/2016
Court of Civil Appeals and ruled in favor of claimant Cynthia Robinson ruling that she had a right to petition the Workers' Compensation Commission to decide on the constitutionality of the statute that allowed her employer to deny benefits after she slipped on icy sidewalk and fell while five feet
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