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US v. CHASE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law
The psychotherapist-patient privilege precludes a psychiatrist's testimony as to threats communicated during sessions, and a "dangerous patient"...

BARTLETT MEM'L MED. CTR. v. THOMPSON

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law
Plaintiff hospitals challenging interpretation of a Medicare Act provision are not entitled to mandamus jurisdiction as they failed to show that the...

CONNETT v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In appeal from denial of Social Security disability insurance and supplemental security income benefits, administrative law judge's (ALJ) discrediting...

MEYERS v. COLUMBIA/HCA HEALTHCARE CORP.

Attorney's Fees, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Defendants were immune under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA), in claims arising from denial of reappointment to a hospital's medical...

CLEMENTS v. DIAMOND STATE PORT CORP.

Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from termination of total disability benefits, 1) the Industrial Accident Board properly relied on evidence to reach findings on expert...

TIERDAEL CONSTR. CO. v. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH REVIEW COMM'N

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A company engaged in OSHA Class II asbestos removal work within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. section 1926.1101, as the plain and natural meaning of the...

BRAGG v. VALDEZ

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
A treating psychiatrist who releases a patient simply because that patient has no insurance, when the patient has been involuntarily committed under...

HASSAN v. MERCY AM. RIVER HOSP.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
The term "person" as used in Civil Code section 43.8, concerning confidentiality of communications regarding medical practitioners, is not limited to...

PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (VASQUEZ)

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
The trial court exceeded its jurisdiction in dismissing a Welfare and Institutions Code section 6601(a) petition to declare real party in interest a...

MED. BD. OF CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO (LISKEY)

Commercial Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Health Law, Professional Malpractice
Business and Professions Code section 2354 does not permit disciplinary action against a physician's license to practice medicine based solely on the...