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Pace v. Swerdlow

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action brought against defendant-physician who plaintiffs had hired to serve as their expert witness in a medical malpractice case, claiming...

Brown v. Fortner

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against, inter alia, defendants-correctional officers alleging they acted with deliberate...

Brown v. Fortner

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against, inter alia, defendants-correctional officers alleging they acted with deliberate...

US v. Igbokwe

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
Defendant's convictions and sentence for health care fraud, currency structuring, and money laundering are affirmed where: 1) the evidence was...

Warner-Lambert Co. v. Kent

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a one-line, per curiam opinion, the judgment below is affirmed by an equally divided Court. In a case involving Michigan legislation which...

Valdez v. U.S.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In case involving a severely brain-damaged seven-year-old, dismissal of plaintiffs' claims under Federal Tort Claims Act for failure to file an...

Moore v. Bennette

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In prisoner civil rights action alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs and retaliation, dismissal of complaint for failure to exhaust...

Rainey v. US Dep't of Labor

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Dismissal of claim for permanent partial disability benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is reversed, because where an...

Stalley v. Methodist Healthcare

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a suit alleging that defendants all violated the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP), dismissal of the claims is affirmed where the MSP is not a qui...

Ticconi v. Blue Shield of California Life & Health Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a suit against plaintiff's health insurance provider defendant-Blue Shield under the Unfair Competition Law alleging it violated the Insurance Code...