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US v. BIEGANOWSKI

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Health Law, Insurance Law
Multiple mail fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering convictions and sentences, arising from a scheme to use Healthcare Finance Administration forms...

DAVIS v. STATE OF NEW YORK

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In complaints about excessive second-hand smoke levels, a prisoner's assertions may have been sufficient to create an issue of fact as to the level of...

FREILICH v. UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH, INC.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
After termination of medical staff privileges, a physician's action alleging 1) the unconstitutionality of federal statutes granting immunity to peer...

INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SERV., INC. v. LANG-REDWAY

Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Health Law, Professional Malpractice
If a plaintiff, alleging that a nursing home violated its statutory duties, files suit seeking to enforce only those rights enumerated in section...

SIERRA CLUB v. US ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Health Law
The EPA's approval of an extension of the statutory date for meeting ozone attainment standards was in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA), but the...

FLUE-CURED TOBACCO COOP. STABILIZATION CORP. v. US ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Health Law
An Environmental Protection Agency Report, classifying secondhand smoke as a known carcinogen, was not a reviewable agency action under the...

JENSEN v. LANE COUNTY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff failed to show that a contract psychiatrist departed from generally accepted standards in the medical community in...

CLARK REG'L MED. CTR. v. US DEP'T OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERV.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services's interpretation of 42 C.F.R. section 412.105(b), to exclude swing and observation beds from...

VEINO v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
A finding that plaintiff's medical condition has improved since 1982, in a decision terminating Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, is...

AMAX COAL CO. v. DIR., OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMP. PROGRAMS

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Workers' Compensation
In a claim for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act, when an Administrative Law Judge finds that no onset date is established by the evidence,...