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Wardell v. State of Florida

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
Defendant's convictions for trafficking in oxycotin and violation of probation are affirmed over his claim that the trial court was without...

Hannon v. Shands Teaching Hosp. & Clinics, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action alleging that respondents' negligence led to her minor son's death, a petition for writ of certiorari challenging an order...

Hannon v. Roper

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A petition for certiorari review of an order granting a doctor's motion for a protective order in a medical negligence action is granted where the...

Reckess v. New York State Comm'n on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Respondent's subpoenas seeking documents from petitioners, the operators of several adult care facilities, relating to mortgages that they secured...

Putter v. North Shore Univ. Hosp.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice action, plaintiffs are not entitled to invoke the doctrine of equitable estoppel to toll the 2.5-year statute of limitations,...

US v. Baylor Univ. Med. Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Health Law
In qui tam action involving hospitals from 30 states and alleging Medicare fraud, interlocutory appeal from a judgment granting in part and denying in...

Yale New Haven Hosp. v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
Reversal of defendant's decision that denied Medicare reimbursement claims is vacated as the denial was predicated on a new rule altering the previous...

Buchanan v. State of Maine

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983, ADA and equal protection suit arising out of the treatment of a mentally ill man and his...

Geddes v. United Staffing Alliance Employee Med. Plan

ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of court review of an ERISA health plan's denial of benefits, a fiduciary's decision to delegate part of its Firestone authority to an...

Abraxis Bioscience, Inc. v. Mayne Pharma (USA) Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving patents for a pharmaceutical composition used to induce and maintain general anesthesia and sedation in patients,...