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IN RE: DAVID B. / IN RE: DAVID S.

Health Law
In order to retain an insanity acquittee in a non-secure psychiatric facility pursuant to CPL 330.20, in addition to recent acts of violence and the...

KALABA v. GRAY

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Professional Malpractice
Although no expert declaration is required for a treating physician who will be called to testify at trial as an expert witness, under Code of Civil...

PENNSYLVANIA PSYCHIATRIC SOC-Y v. GREEN SPRING HEALTH SERVS., INC.

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law
Where it had yet to be shown whether the plaintiff could establish its claims with limited individual participation, so as to satisfy the requirements...

US EX .REL. QUIRK v. MADONNA TOWERS, INC.

Health Law, Insurance Law
In a suit brought under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. section 3729 et seq., the record did not establish claim that defendant knowingly submitted a...

SOUVANNARATH v. HADDEN

Health Law
Health & Safety Code section 121350, et. seq., precludes the use of the jail as a detention facility for noncompliant TB patients, and the trial...

CROWELL v. DOWNEY COMTY HOSP. FOUND.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law
Parties to an arbitration agreement may not agree that an arbitration award is subject to judicial review to determine whether the award is supported...

GREENLESS v. ALMOND

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Due to recent amendment of Medicaid law, in claiming that federal law required State to pay class of Medicaid recipients a portion of the proceeds...

DEGRUISE v. SPRINT CORP.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A company meets its notification duty under COBRA, 29 U.S.C. Sections 1161-1168, by sending a letter to an individual-s last known address by...

AMERICAN SOC'Y OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY v. THOMPSON

Administrative Law, Health Law
By its express terms, the Medicare Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1395w-4(i)(1)(B), bars judicial review of a challenge to components of the physician fee...

SAN LAZARO ASS'N, INC. v. CONNELL

Attorney's Fees, Health Law
In a State Medicaid/Medi-Cal fraud action, even if a plaintiff's claim becomes moot due to its inelligiblilty to participate in the Medi-Cal program,...