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Adams v. State of California Dep't of Health Servs.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging civil rights, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and related claims brought against a state health agency and other defendants arising...

Cox Nuclear Pharmacy, Inc. v. CTI, Inc.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
In case involving a failed transaction for the sale of a cyclotron, a device used to create radioactive pharmaceuticals, summary judgment in favor of...

EEOC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by the EEOC against Wal-Mart alleging that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it refused to hire an...

Sullivan v. Edward Hosp.

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Directed verdict for a hospital in a medical malpractice case is affirmed where the trial court correctly: 1) struck certain testimony by a doctor as...

Williams v. Staples

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law, Sentencing
A conditional release should not be used to extend an involuntarily committed individual's Thiem release date, which is the date corresponding to the...

Vitro v. Mihelcic

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A parent may not recover for loss of the society and companionship of a child who is nonfatally injured.

S. Baptist Hosp. of Florida v. Ashe

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A hospital's petition for writ of certiorari is denied over its claim that the trial judge departed from the essential requirements of law when he...

Gaviria v. Reynolds

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In medical malpractice action against defendant oral surgeons after plaintiff underwent five surgeries to repair jaw problems resulting from an...

Kennecott Greens Creek Mining Co. v. Mine Safety & Health Admin.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a consolidated case involving rules regulating diesel particulate matter in underground mines, petitions for review of three rules are denied over...

Haines City HMA, Inc. v. Carter

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a lawsuit brought by a labor and delivery nurse against her employer under the anti-retaliation provision of the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA), a...