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Stokes v. State of Florida

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
Defendant's conviction and sentence is reversed where the trial court abused its discretion in denying her motion to withdraw her no contest plea, as...

Barrett v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
Dismissal of a veteran's appeal from a denial of benefits for lack of jurisdiction, for failure to establish entitlement to equitable tolling of the...

Sacks v. Office of Foreign Assets Control

Administrative Law, Debt Collection, Health Law, International Law, International Trade, Sanctions
In cross-appeals arising from a challenge to pre-2003 U.S. sanctions prohibiting both travel to and the unlicensed donation of humanitarian medical...

Bates v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): 1) when plaintiffs challenge an employer's use of a safety-based qualification standard,...

Desiano v. Warner Lambert Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In case alleging injuries caused by Rezulin, a diabetes drug, grant of judgment on the pleadings in favor of defendants, in case involving federal...

Green v. City of N.Y.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving taking plaintiff, who suffered from ALS, against his will to defendant hospital giving rise to allegations of disability...

Stop Loss Ins. Brokers, Inc. v. Brown & Toland Med. Group

Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Demurrer without leave to amend to cross-complaint for comparative indemnity, filed after underlying suit for breach of contract and negligence...

Munyan v. Daimler Chrysler Corp.

Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A decision affirming the Industrial Accident Board's denial of a petition to determine additional compensation due is affirmed over a claim that the...

Pope v. Winter Park Healthcare Group, Ltd.

Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Although Florida law does not currently recognize an implied nondelegable duty on the part of a hospital to provide competent medical care to its...

Easter v. Powell

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against a prison nurse alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs, denial of qualified...