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Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Total Abortion Ban

Abortion after six weeks will be banned in Idaho this week after the state's Supreme Court denied a request to block the state's total trigger ban and lifted the existing stay on the six-week abortion ban's civil enforcement mechanism.
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Daily Business Review

Miami Attorneys Land $15.5M Jury Verdict for Paralyzed Victim

"It is important for lawyers to stay on their message and not to get distracted by all of the little issues that the defense raises," said Philip Freidin, a partner at Freidin Brown.
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Law.com

'We Got a Good Chunk of the Moon': $650M Opioid Order Against CVS, Walmart, Walgreens

U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, on Wednesday, ordered the three pharmacies to provide abatement funds to two Ohio counties who won a Nov. 23 verdict over the opioid crisis.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

'It's Completely Outrageous': Reed Smith Fights Attempt to Retry Nursing Home Operator Granted Clemency by Trump

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry Philip Esformes, whose 20-year sentence following a fraud and money laundering conviction was commuted by former President Donald Trump, on six counts where there was initially a hung jury.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Only Cigna and ConnectiCare Invited as Connecticut Lawmakers Weigh Insurance Rate Hikes

"Our priority, our duty should be to Connecticut families and residents and small businesses, to protect them to make sure they don't have to pay more for health insurance and health care than they have to," Attorney General William Tong said. "And to ask, and to even require, the health insurance companies here today to do all they can to really serve their customers and not just extract as much as they can."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Insurance Rate Hearing to Take Place Monday Despite AG Tong's Opposition

"Number one: We don't want rates that are based on incorrect information," Tong said. "Number two: We don't want rates that are based on revised information when we're not really sure that they had time and really put their full effort into an appropriate revision of those rates."
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Brooklyn Federal Judge Dismisses Healthcare Billing Suit Challenging 'No Surprises Act'

Attorneys argued that the law, which limits how much patients have to pay out-of-network providers in emergencies and other scenarios, violated physicians' Fifth, Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
3 minute read

Law.com

Montana Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban Injunction

The Montana Supreme Court denied a request by the state and the governor to file supplemental amicus briefing citing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
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New York Law Journal

Debevoise Lawyer Sworn in as ABA President

New York-based Deborah Enix-Ross will serve as ABA president until August 2023, when president-elect Mary L. Smith, former CEO of the U.S. Indian Health Service, will assume the role.
3 minute read

Law.com

Virginia's Medical-Amnesty Statute Divides Appeals Court Over 2 Questions of First Impression

"Unfortunately, although no doubt well-intentioned, the majority violates the judicial norms listed above," Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. wrote in the dissent. "As explained below, I believe the majority's departures from these norms lead the majority to an incorrect conclusion: that a defendant may invoke the protections of the overdose statute without actually experiencing an overdose."
6 minute read

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