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Corporate Counsel

Will 'Dobbs' Advice Erode the Attorney-Client Privilege?

The crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege merits attention for counsel, who should consider the potential areas of risk and some mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of communications.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Prices of Some Drugs Will Fall Due to Landmark Legislation—Yet Legal Challenges May Follow

Health care companies are expected to push back on some of the aspects of the new regulations, and there could be spillover effects of the price reductions on commercial insurers.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY AG James Says Pharmacists Must Sell Reproductive Health Products

A cashier's personal beliefs can not restrict access to products including birth control, condoms, emergency contraceptives, and other medications, New York Attorney General Letitia James said.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

US Supreme Court Sides With 340B Hospitals in Drug-Pricing Program Case

In a unanimous opinion delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh on June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with hospitals and held that Medicaid funding was unlawfully cut to certain hospital groups. In the American Hospital Association v. Becerra holding, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the cuts in 2018 and 2019 to only one group of hospitals is contrary to the associated reimbursement statute and unlawful.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Prison's 'Psychological Autopsy' on Inmate's Suicide Not Subject to Peer Review Privilege, Pa. Appeals Court Says

Kline & Specter's Chip Becker said the focus on the document itself is a different angle from prior analysis of PRPA privilege. "This illumination is helpful, because recent peer review cases have focused more on the entities that may perform peer review than on how individual documents should be analyzed."
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYC Municipal Workers Ask SCOTUS to Block Vaccine Mandate

The latest challenge claims the New York City's vaccine mandate is a newly created condition of employment that requires employees to consent or be fired.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Halts Part of Idaho Abortion Ban, Siding With DOJ

A federal judge found that Idaho's law conflicts with a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment in a medical emergency.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Abortion Activists Bring Class Action Against Texas District Attorneys, Attorney General

The plaintiffs ask that the lawsuit proceed as a class action, and that preliminary and permanent injunctions be granted that prohibit prosecutions under pre-'Roe' statutes or the Trigger Ban for acts connected to abortions outside of Texas.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Signals Support for DOJ in Challenge to Idaho Abortion Ban

Judge B. Lynn Winmill highlighted scenarios where the Idaho law appears to conflict with a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing care in emergencies.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Signal Interest in Second False Claims Act Case in New Term

The case in question is a qui tam action brought against corporations associated with the grocery and pharmacy chain SuperValu.
3 minute read

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