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Beck v. McDonald

Consumer Protection Law, Health Law, Military Law, Government Benefits, Cyberspace Law
In consolidated appeals brought by veterans who received medical treatment and health care at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical...

Physicians Healthsource, Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Health Law, Communications Law
In an action alleging violations of of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, as amended by the Junk Fax Protection Act of 2005, 47 U.S.C....

Booker v. Pfizer, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Drugs & Biotech
In a qui tam action against a pharmaceutical defendant in federal district court, on behalf of the U.S., more than two dozen individual states, and...

Kabran v. Sharp Memorial Hosp.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against a hospital, alleging plaintiff was mishandled by an occupational therapist which caused spinal shock and bleeding and in turn caused...

State of Missouri ex rel. Koster v. Harris

Health Law, Agriculture, Government Law
In a suit filed six states seeking to block enforcement of California laws and regulations prescribing standards for the conditions under which...

Mathews v. Harris

Health Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit brought by mandated reporter plaintiffs challenging the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (CANRA), which requires certain individuals,...

Contreas v. Sec'y of Health and Human Servs.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a petitioner seeking compensation for his Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Transverse Myelitis allegedly caused by vaccinations,...

Armin v. Riverside Community Hospital

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Health Law
In an action arising out of physician peer review proceedings against plaintiff brain surgeon, the court held that: 1) a physician need not complete...

Hagerty v. Cyberonics, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Health Law
In a qui tam action alleging, among other things, that defendant violated the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. section 3729 et seq., and related...

Interstate Fire and Casualty v. Dimensions Assurance Ltd.

Labor & Employment Law, Insurance Law, Health Law
In an insurance coverage dispute in an underlying medical malpractice action brought by a former patient against the hospital and several of its...