Court Rules Healthcare Laws Statute 
JURIST
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Monday reversed a preliminary injunction previously implemented to bar the enforcement of an Indiana law requiring fetal remains to be either buried or cremated by clinics that provide abortion. The laws require that only abortion providers either bury or cremate fetal remains.
JURIST
JULY 26, 2022
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday rejected an appeal from Pfizer Inc. after the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said that Pfizer’s plan to cover patients’ copays for its heart failure medications violated US law.
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JURIST
APRIL 16, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. The circuit split has increased the possibility of a Supreme Court review.
JURIST
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Monday against a pregnant woman who challenged the state’s abortion restrictions. A lower court had previously granted the woman, Kate Cox, permission to receive an abortion due to pregnancy complications, despite the state’s strict abortion ban. Her health is on the line.
At the Lectern
JULY 13, 2023
the Supreme Court today upholds the dismissal without trial of negligence, wrongful death, and elder abuse claims against a Medicare Advantage HMO and plan administrator for the alleged premature discharge of an 85-year-old man from a skilled nursing facility. A federal Medicare statute preempts those claims, the court concludes.
Day on Torts
MARCH 11, 2022
When the brother was admitted, plaintiff filled out admission paperwork, including an arbitration agreement, as plaintiff had a durable power of attorney for healthcare executed by the brother and naming plaintiff as the attorney-in-fact. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn. Code Ann. § Code Ann. § internal citation omitted).
Patently O
AUGUST 9, 2022
Accord Healthcare, Inc., Two groups of law professors have each filed an amicus brief in support of the petition. The patentee in the case argues that inherency is too strict a standard and that it goes beyond what is required by the statute and prior precedent. by Dennis Crouch. 21-1070; petition from 38 F.4th 4th 1013 (U.S.
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