NJ Parents' Suit Challenging Storing Baby DNA Gets Tossed
A New Jersey federal judge tossed a proposed class action Friday challenging the Garden State's practice of keeping newborn babies' residual blood spots without parental consent, finding the parents haven't al... (more story)
HHS Says Wash. Has No Stake In Noncitizen Medicaid Fight
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is fighting Washington state's bid to join a legal challenge to the Trump administration's attempts to withdraw federal Medicaid funding for certain noncitizens... (more story)
Ohio Judge Strikes Down Remainder Of 6-Week Abortion Ban
An Ohio state judge permanently blocked provisions of the state's "heartbeat law" that were previously under review after the court found that the bill's main feature — its prohibition on abortion after around... (more story)
Botox Exempt From Medicare Price Talks, Judge Rules
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can't subject AbbVie's Botox to Medicare price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act, a D.C. federal judge held, finding CMS misinterpreted an IRA exclusio... (more story)
Philly Health System's Time Rounding Shorted OT, Suit Says
A former hospital supervisor has accused a Philadelphia health system in Pennsylvania state court of shortchanging hourly workers on overtime by rounding their clock-in and clock-out times to the nearest 15 mi... (more story)
Home Care Cos. Win Partial Block Of DOL Overtime Rule
The U.S. Department of Labor exceeded its authority by barring third-party employers of live-in domestic workers from claiming a federal overtime exemption, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, but he kept in p... (more story)