Showing posts with label Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Care. Show all posts
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 ...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Kentucky Governor Issues Executive Order Limiting Conversion Therapy for Minors

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 After attempts to get the Kentucky state legislature to ban conversion therapy for minors failed, on Wednesday Kentucky Governor Andy Beshe...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Buffer Zone Ordinance Violates Free Speech Rights of Protesters Because of Inadvertent Breadth of Ban

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In Sisters for Life, Inc. v. Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government ,  (WD KY, Sept. 13, 2024), anti-abortion sidewalk counselors chal...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Illinois Governor Signs 3 Bills Protecting Abortion Rights

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On Aug. 7, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB4867 ( full text ) which amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make discrimination on...
Friday, May 17, 2024

South Carolina Legislature Passes Bill Barring Gender Transition Care for Minors and Mandating Schools Notifying Parents

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The South Carolina legislature this week gave final passage to H4624 ( full text ) which prohibits health care professionals from providing ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Tennessee Legislature Passes Healthcare Sharing Ministries Exemption

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Yesterday the Tennessee legislature took the final procedural steps needed to send HB 1163, Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Court Decides 7 Cases of Health Care Employees' Refusal to Receive Covid Vaccine

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 A Delaware federal district court judge yesterday handed down opinions in seven lawsuits against the same medical center that terminated em...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Ohio Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto of Bill on Transgender Health Care and Sports Participation

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The Ohio Senate yesterday voted 24-8 to override Governor Mike DeWine's veto of HB 68 , the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SA...
Friday, December 08, 2023

6th Circuit Hears Arguments on Standing to Challenge Gender Identity Ban in Health Care

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On Wednesday, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of appeals heard oral arguments in American College of Pediatricians v. Becerra.  ( Audio of full o...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Colorado Ban on Medication Abortion Reversal Violates Clinic's Free Exercise Rights

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In Bella Health and Wellness v. Weiser ,  (D CO, Oct. 21, 2023), a Colorado federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring t...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

EEOC Sues Over Refusal of Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate For Remote-Working Emloyee

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The EEOC announced yesterday that it has filed suit against the healthcare provider United Healthcare Services for refusing to grant a reli...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Some Claimed Exemptions From Vaccine Mandate Were Not Religious In Nature

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In Ellison v. Inova Health Care Services ,  three hospital employees sued because their claims for religious exemptions from the Covid vacci...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Vermont Pregnancy Counseling Centers Sue Over New Restrictions

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Vermont federal district court attacking Vermont's recently-enacted SB 37  which, among other things, impo...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Court Says Dobbs Decision Does Not Undercut Freedom of Access To Clinic Entrances Act

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In United States v. Gallagher ,  (MD TN, July 3, 2023), a Tennessee federal district court became the first court to rule on whether the Sup...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Tennessee's Ban on Gender-Affirming Treatment for Minors

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In L.W. v. Skrmetti , (MD TN, June 28, 2023), a Tennessee federal district court issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of SB1 ...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Florida's Ban On Medicaid Payments For Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones Is Invalid

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In Dekker v. Weida ,  (ND FL, June 31, 2023), a Florida federal district court held that Florida Statutes §286.31(2) and Florida Administra...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Court Enjoins Arkansas Ban on Gender-Affirming Medical Care

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In Brandt v. Rutledge ,  (ED AR, June 20, 2023), an Arkansas federal district court in an 80-page opinion permanently enjoined the state fro...
Monday, June 05, 2023

Court Refuses to Dismiss Suit by Civil Detainee Who Was Forced to Attend a Christian Religious Service

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In Erie v. Hunter ,  (MD LA, May 31, 2023), a Louisiana federal district court refused to dismiss an Establishment Clause suit brought by a ...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

New Iowa Law Addresses Sexual Materials In School Curriculum; Parental Rights

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Last Friday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF 496 ( full text ) which prohibits public schools from providing "any program, curric...
Friday, May 12, 2023

New Florida Law Protects Conscience Rights of Health Care Providers

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 Yesterday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1580 ( full text ) which protects conscience rights of health care providers an...