Health Law

Government Presents Legal Defense of Health Care Reform
Politico: Feds defend health reform's legality, by Sarah Kliff: The Obama administration has previewed its legal defense of health care reform in its response to a case in Eastern Michigan that sought to declare the individual mandate unconstitutional...

Clement, Tribe Debate Obama's Health Care Law
A pair of prominent appellate law specialists debated the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's sweeping health care reform law, at the Federalist Society?s annual National Lawyers Convention Saturday...

FL Court is Latest Health Care Law Battleground
Judge C. Roger Vinson today became the fourth federal district judge to formally examine the constitutionality of the new U.S. health care reform law, hearing arguments in Florida on behalf of 20 states challenging the plan...

Appeals court rejects Va. challenge to federal health-care law
In a surprise move, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court based in Virginia has tossed out one of the most prominent challenges to the health reform law. This is the first appeals court to throw out a case for lack of standing after a lower court had ruled on the merits...

Tort Reform No Cure For What Ails Our Health Care System
With the current debate concerning health care reform heating up, I want to share with you some thoughts on malpractice law suits and its role in the health care debade. The article was authored by the American Association for Justice of which I am a sustaining member...

The Need For Health Care Reform
Without health care reform, the cost of health care for the average family of four is projected to rise $1,800 every year for years to come?and insurance companies will make more health care decisions...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Medicare
Guide to government health insurance for the elderly

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Lawsuit Filed Against Legacy Health Care Facilities for Nursing Home Abuse
Legacy Health Care Facilities Face Class Action Over Allegations of Abuse

Coventry Health Care, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Coventry Health Care, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Skilled Health Care Faces $670 Million in Damages over Nursing Home Violations
Skilled Health Care Faces $670 Million in Damages over Nursing Home Violations

Sun Mar Health Care Settles Class Action for $2 Million

Pittsburgh Health Care Facilities
Facing Wages Class Actions

Sun Mar Health Care Inc.
allegedly misrepresented nursing staff levels and training to elderly residents.