On the morning of November 8, while many Americans were still casting their votes and getting ready for Election Night parties, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Health & Hospital Corporation ...
The ACLU filed an amicus brief in Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski to urge the Supreme Court to uphold private individuals’ right to sue state and local actors for violations ...
After granting three cert. petitions and relisting several more following its first conference of 2022, this week the U.S. Supreme Court filled out this year’s docket by granting cert. petitions in ...
On June 8, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court held that private individuals may sue publicly owned nursing homes for violations of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 (FNHRA). Plaintiff Gorgi ...
As of spring, 2022, Medicaid had enrolled nearly 82 million people, making it the nation’s single largest insurer and the nation’s largest public health care entitlement. Medicaid confers a federal ...
This column reports on several significant representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Edward R. Korman permitted a Section ...
Tuesday’s argument in Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County v. Talevski did not reveal a Supreme Court ready to reconsider or overrule a line of cases allowing private suits for damages in ...
There’s a sleeper case on the Supreme Court’s docket that could blow a gaping hole in the social safety net and give states leeway to neglect or end care for tens of millions of the most vulnerable ...
Sexual abuse of a minor causes severe harm from which the victim may never recover. When the perpetrator teacher abused official authority under color of state law, the victim may assert a claim for ...