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Stahle v. CTS Corp.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Environmental Law, Civil Procedure
In an injury and tort action, brought by plaintiff alleging that defendant’s dumping toxic solvents into a local stream caused him to develop leukemia...

Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Health Law, Insurance Law, Government Law, ERISA, Constitutional Law
In an action seeking a declaration that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) pre-empts application of Vermont's law requiring...

Fett v Medical Bd. of CA

Health Law, Administrative Law
In a physician's appeal from the trial court's order compelling compliance with an administrative investigative subpoena issued by the Medical Board...

Pipitone v. Williams

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a wrongful death action against two physicians who separately saw and treated decedent several months before her death for injuries she sustained...

People v. Quiroz

Health Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an appeal to determine whether a trial court has jurisdiction to convene a competency hearing after a state hospital certifies that a defendant,...

Eighty Four Mining Co. v. Morris

Health Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
In a petition for review of the U.S. Labor Department Benefits Review Board's award of disability benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA),...

Lawrence + Memorial Hosp. v. Burwell

Health Law, Administrative Law, Government Law
In an administrative action challenging the Secretary of Health and Human Service's regulation for reclassifying hospitals as 'urban' or 'rural,' 42...

US ex rel. May v. Purdue Pharma

False Advertising, Health Law, Drugs & Biotech
In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), the district court's dismissal is affirmed where the FCA's public disclosure bar, 31...

Epic Medical Management v. Paquette

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law
In an appeal of an arbitrated dispute between a doctor and a medical management company, with which he had contracted to supply non-medical management...

Colon Health Centers v. Hazel

Health Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a constitutional action, the district court's judgment for defendant is affirmed where Virginia's certificate of public need program, required for...