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Second Circuit Agrees that Copay Assistance Programs May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In a recent decision, the Second Circuit upheld the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s position that Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance program for its high-cost heart treatment would violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Pfizer, Inc.

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Georgia repeals citizen’s arrest law in response to Ahmaud Arbery killing

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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Monday signed a bill that repeals an 1863 civil war-era statute , one year after Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot. He was shot while running through his neighborhood on the Georgia coast in February 2020 after the men claimed they thought he was a burglar.

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Supreme Court will answer teed-up bail questions and decide felony-murder resentencing issue; it depublishes arbitration opinion

At the Lectern

Howard (2020) 50 Cal.App.5th The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. ” The Supreme Court denied the defendant’s petition for review in Howard. County of Los Angeles (1974) 12 Cal.3d

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Scolding the Legislature for lack of clarity, Supreme Court rules statute can retroactively reduce probation without negating plea deal

At the Lectern

Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th It’s not an easily resolved issue, because the Legislature didn’t specify an answer. In People v.

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Court rejects non-citizen’s challenge to criminal re-entry charge

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Eight years later, an immigration judge found that his California conviction for driving under the influence was an aggravated felony under the federal immigration laws. Ashcroft that, under the relevant federal statute, DUI convictions like Palomar-Santiago’s are not aggravated felonies.

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Supreme Court will hear cases about request for records regarding destruction of homeless people’s property and about sentence enhancements for prior prison terms

At the Lectern

invalidates many sentence enhancements for prior prison terms if the enhancements were “imposed prior to January 1, 2020.” ” Division Two held the statute applies only to those enhancements that were “imposed and executed,” not “imposed and stayed.” ” Prior prison enhancements.

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Eight-case June calendar is last one before September

At the Lectern

Some Courts of Appeal are returning to in-person arguments, but the Supreme Court’s June calendar, like all of its calendars since April 2020 , will be remote and based in San Francisco. (See Because the court does not conduct oral arguments during the summer, these will be the last arguments until September. Proc., § 425.16, subd. (e)(4))