Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday led an 8-1 Supreme Court majority in striking down Colorado's ban on 'conversion therapy' as applied to talk therapy, writing that the law 'regulates speech based on viewpoint' in viola...
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint when applied to talk therapy and 'the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous Fir...
Writing for a two-judge panel, Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson on Monday held that California's Assembly Bill 290 largely violates the First Amendment by placing a 'widespread burden on donors' associational rights' when...
Chief Judge Barron, writing for a unanimous First Circuit panel including Judges Gelpí and Hamilton, on Friday affirmed a Puerto Rico federal court ruling that barred coverage for an assisted living facility's negligence in caring for an elderly patient, ho...
U.S. District Judge David Clay Fowlkes on Wednesday dismissed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Jonathan White and other defendants without prejudice, granting the defendants' motion to dismiss in a brief judgment that incorporated a magistrate judg...
U.S. District Judge Richard Young on Tuesday ruled that a prisoner's Eighth Amendment claims for deliberate indifference can move forward against a nurse practitioner and medical provider Centurion Health, finding the refusal to provide pain medication desp...
U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. on Wednesday denied a pro se tenant's emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to halt eviction proceedings, finding Catherine Williamson's rambling 8-page filing failed to establish the legal prerequisite...
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle on Tuesday dismissed without prejudice a federal pretrial detainee's civil rights complaint alleging deliberate indifference to his psoriatic arthritis, writing that plaintiff Hon Ning Ho "has not alleged facts sh...
Circuit Judge Thacker, joined by Chief Judge Diaz and Judge King, on Monday denied Wolf Run Mining Company's petition challenging a $250,000 black lung benefits award, holding that the company 'provided no rationale as to why coal dust-induced lung disease...
Writing for a two-judge panel, Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson on Monday held that California's Assembly Bill 290 largely violates the First Amendment by placing a 'widespread burden on donors' associational rights' when dialysis providers contribute to charit...
Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, Circuit Judge Davis on Tuesday held that Tennessee's laws restricting pharmacy benefit managers from steering patients to preferred pharmacies are preempted by ERISA, affirming a district court's permanent injuncti...
A Tenth Circuit panel Wednesday affirmed the denial of a Kansas pharmacist's bid to overturn his Medicare and Medicaid fraud convictions based on faulty jury instructions, ruling that instruction errors affecting his overturned narcotics distribution charge...
Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday led an 8-1 Supreme Court majority in striking down Colorado's ban on 'conversion therapy' as applied to talk therapy, writing that the law 'regulates speech based on viewpoint' in violation of the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint when applied to talk therapy and 'the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.'
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal judge's finding that Florida violated the Americans with Disabilities Act through 'systemic institutionalization' of medically complex children, ruling that the state's failure to provide adequate home nursin...
A Fourth Circuit panel on Tuesday affirmed a federal judge's preliminary injunction against West Virginia's S.B. 325, ruling the state law likely interferes with Congress's federal 340B drug pricing program by 'impermissibly' reshaping 'the contractual barg...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction blocking West Virginia's law requiring 340B program manufacturers to deliver drugs to unlimited contract pharmacies, ruling the state 'seeks—likely impermissibly—to reshape the contractual b...
A Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking West Virginia's attempt to force drugmakers participating in the federal 340B program to deliver medications to unlimited contract pharmacies, holding the state law likely intrudes on...
The First Circuit on Friday vacated a $3.5 million loss-of-consortium damages award for a brain tumor patient's family, ruling that her husband and children failed to exhaust administrative remedies under the Federal Tort Claims Act despite their claims bei...
A First Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed the dismissal of a class action alleging Elevance Health Inc. discriminated against employees with obesity by excluding weight-loss medication coverage, finding the plaintiff failed to show the policy targeted disa...
A Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld a Kentucky federal judge's decision to compel arbitration and confirm an award favoring nursing home operators, rejecting an estate's claim that the arbitrator's decades-old public censure rendered the proceedings bi...
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld an orthopedic surgeon's conviction for making false statements to Medicare but tossed a $315,704 restitution order, saying the government failed to show the healthcare agency actually relied on the fraudulent enrollmen...