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US v. Apria Healthcare Group Inc.

Civil Procedure, Health Law
In plaintiff's qui tam action against a healthcare company for fraudulently billing the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medical devices and related...

US v. Anderson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In a conviction of an owner of a long-term healthcare facility for Medicaid fraud, district court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss the...

McClesky v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's affirmance of the Social Security Administration's denial of petitioner's claim is reversed and remanded in light of the...

Coggeshall v. Massachusetts Bd. of Registration of Psychologists

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists, claiming multiple challenges to the...

Lewis v. Tripp

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law
In an action by a chiropractor whose license had been revoked claiming that an administrative search of his office was carried out in violation of his...

Alvarez v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd.

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In claimant's petition for worker's compensation death benefits, a decision of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) denying claimant's...

Am. Dental Ass'n v. Cigna Corp.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action by dentists against managed care plans alleging that defendants engaged in a fraudulent scheme to reduce payments to plaintiffs,...

Alfred E. Mann Found. for Scientific Research v. Cochlear Corp.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit related to patents for cochlear implants, dismissal of the case for lack of standing to sue on the ground that...

Northport Health Servs. v. Rutherford

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In actions to compel arbitration of state law tort claims arising out of the treatment of defendants' decedents at nursing homes, a grant of...

Prime Gas, Inc. v. City of Sacramento

Administrative Law, Government Law, Health Law, Sanctions
In a plaintiff's petition for a writ of administrative mandate challenging a city ordinance that requires local tobacco retailers to be licensed by...