Showing posts with label HHS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HHS. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

HHS Rescinds Prior Administration's Interpretation of Emergency Room Abortion Practices Under EMTALA

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 In January 2025, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction issued by a Texas federal district court barring enforcement of...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Suit Challenges HHS's Rescission of Sensitive Locations Policy

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Suit was filed yesterday in an Oregon federal district court by a group of churches, an interfaith council and a Latino organization challen...
Friday, February 21, 2025

HHS Issues Guidance On Defining Gender-Based Terms

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On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a release titled "Defining Sex: Guidance for Federal Agencies, Externa...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Justice Department Announces Multi-Agency Task Force to Combat Antisemitism

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In a press release yesterday, the Department of Justice announced the formation of a multi-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. Accor...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Suit Challenges Federal Agency Rule Changes Protecting Against Gender Identity Discrimination

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Suit was filed last week in a Louisiana federal district court challenging rule changes interpreting five federal statutes. Defendants are H...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

HIPPA Rule Barring Reporting of Legal Abortions to Out-of-State Enforcement Authorities Is Preliminarily Enjoined

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In April of this year, the Department of Health and Human Services adopted new privacy rules under HIPPA designed to protect women (and thos...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Suit Challenges HIPPA Rules Barring Reporting of Out-of-State Abortions

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As previously reported , in April of this year the Department of Health and Human Services issued new privacy rules under HIPPA designed to ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Texas Sues HHS Over Rule Protecting Privacy of Information About Out-of-State Abortions

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Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services challenging two HHS privacy...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Suit Challenges HHS Rules Barring Gender Identity Discrimination in Federally Funded Health Care Programs

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Missouri federal district court by six states and a national organization of pediatricians challenging new rul...
Friday, April 26, 2024

New HIPPA Rules Protect Against Disclosure to Law Enforcement of Out-of-State Abortions

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On April 22, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new rules under HIPPA to protect the privacy of reproductive health care.  T...
Monday, April 08, 2024

Texas' Claim Against HHS Over Pharmacy Guidance Dismissed As Moot

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In State of Texas v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ,  (WD TX, April 5, 2024), a Texas federal district court dismissed as m...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

5th Circuit: Texas Statute Giving Parents Right to Consent to Teens' Contraceptives Is Consistent with Title X

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 In Deanda v. Becerra ,  (5th Cir., March 12, 2024), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Texas statute giving parents the righ...
Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Christian Employers Protected from Requirement to Provide Insurance for Gender Transition Procedures

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 In Christian Employers Alliance v. U.S. EEOC ,  (D ND, March 4, 2024), a North Dakota federal district court enjoined the Department of Hea...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

HHS Adopts Rules Implementing Conscience Protections in Federal Law

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The Department of Health and Human Services has made available a 100-page Release ( full text ) titled Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

5th Circuit: EMTALA Does Not Require Emergency Abortions

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In State of Texas v. Becerra , (5th Cir., Jan. 2, 2024), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an injunction issued by a Texas fede...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Tennessee Sues to Restore Title X Grant Without Making Abortion Referrals

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Tennessee's Attorney General this week filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeking to restore Tennessee...
Friday, September 29, 2023

8 Federal Agencies Clarify When Title VI Bars Discrimination Related to Religion

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The White House announced yesterday that eight federal agencies have "clarified—for the first time in writing—that Title VI of the Civ...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Court Says HHS Used "Smurfing" To Avoid Review of Guidance To Pharmacies

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In State of Texas v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services , (WD TX, July 12, 2023), a Texas federal district court refused to dism...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

HHS Proposes Repeal of Exemption from Contraceptive Mandate for Entities with Nonreligious Moral Objections

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 Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services along with several other federal agencies filed a 147-page release ( full text ) pro...
Friday, December 30, 2022

HHS Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Conscience Protections For Healthcare Providers

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released yesterday a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ( full text ) titled  Safeguarding the ...