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Kuhn v. Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Professional Malpractice
Following entry of an order enjoining plaintiffs from obtaining certain discovery from defendant and from prosecuting certain claims in a state court...

Woods v. Buss

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Sentencing
In proceedings arising in a death penalty case, denial of an inmate's motion for a preliminary injunction and a request for a stay of execution are...

Lockett v. Catalina Channel Express, Inc.

Civil Rights, Health Law
In an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) action brought by a legally blind individual who uses a guide dog against a ferry operator arising from...

Norris v. Engles

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In an action brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 arising from defendant's restraint of plaintiff at a jail, denial of defendant's motion for summary...

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. v. Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
35 U.S.C. section 119(a) does not permit an applicant for a U.S. patent to benefit from the priority of a foreign application previously filed by an...

Schmidt v. Astrue

Government Benefits, Health Law
Order upholding the denial of applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income by the Social Security Administration is...

US ex rel. Boothe v. Sun Healthcare Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) alleging that defendant overbilled the government for Medicare in ten distinct ways, a district...

People ex rel. Brown v. PuriTec

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
California statutes prohibiting the seller of a water treatment device from making performance or benefit claims that the device affects health or the...

Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. Von Eschenbach

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Holding that the Constitution does not provide terminally ill patients with a right of access to experimental drugs that have passed limited safety is...

Horras v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Civil monetary penalties, assessments, and exclusions from all federal health care programs, imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services...