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People v. Carlin

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Sentencing
An order commiting defendant to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) is reversed as...

Page v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of claimant's application for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income is affirmed where: 1) the residual functional...

Grayson v. Ross

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
Pursuant to an answer provided by the Arkansas Supreme Court, which adopted the deliberate indifference standard of care to be applied under state law...

Preston v. Tenet Healthsystem Mem. Med. Ctr., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a class action involving claims for injuries and deaths allegedly caused by defects and unreasonably dangerous conditions at defendants' medical...

Zwygart v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of Jefferson County

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought by a former employee alleging that a county's actions in terminating him following open heart surgery violated his rights under the...

Gambini v. Total Renal Care

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action setting forth Family Medical Leave Act and state discrimination law claims, denial of employee's motion seeking judgment as a matter of...

Alexander v. Mt. Sinai Hosp. Med. Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice action removed to federal court after one of the doctors was deemed to be a federal employee, judgment for defendants is...

In re Basco

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
In a case in which a doctor sought to disqualify his opponent's attorney because the attorney had to question the work product of his former law...

US v. Boateng

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In a case in which the United States filed a bill of review asserting that a default garnishment judgment rendered against its Medicare intermediary...

Jackson v. Axelrad

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice case in which both the physician and patient were doctors, a court of appeals ruling reversing a take-nothing judgment and...