all - Opinion Summaries

Sottera, Inc. v. FDA

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
In an action seeking to enjoin the FDA from regulating electronic cigarettes under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act In (FDCA), a preliminary...

Spiva v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
District court's affirmance of a denial of plaintiff's application for social security disability claim is reversed and remanded as, an ALJ is...

Campbell v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
District court's affirmance of the Social Security Administration's denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits and...

Jelinek v. Casas

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
In a wrongful death action against a hospital and a physician, claiming that defendants' negligence in failing to continue an antibiotic treatment...

Costanich v. Dept. of Soc. & Health Servs. for the State of Wash.

Government Law, Health Law, Civil Rights, Family Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging the deprivation of plaintiff's due process rights to her foster care license and guardianship of her...

Gomez-Gonzalez v. Rural Opportunities, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer, claiming violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment...

Giordano v. Market Am., Inc.

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In response to certified questions from the Second Circuit, the New York Court of Appeals held as follows: 1) the provisions of CPLR section 214-c...

Golin v. Allenby

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' civil rights suit against multiple local and state agencies arising from the removal of their developmentally impaired daughter from...

John B. v. Goetz

Administrative Law, Health Law, Remedies, Government Benefits, Government Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In a 1998 class action challenge to Tennessee's managed care program under the Medicaid Act claiming that the Tennessee officials charged with...

W. Penn Allegheny Health Sys., Inc. v. UPMC

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an antitrust suit by Pittsburgh's second-largest hospital system against Pittsburgh's dominant hospital system and health insurer under the Sherman...