The Courts

A group of medicine and public health researchers and historians are calling on an Ohio court overseeing the national multidistrict opioid litigation to ensure that any settlement guarantees full and permanent access to records that contain information about and shed light on the abuse potential and distribution patterns of opioids.

Oral arguments in the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that tossed out much of the Department of Labor’s final association health plan rule will take place Nov. 14 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

A panel of two liberal judges and one conservative judge will decide the Trump administration’s appeal of rulings that blocked Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky.

The prospect of Congress passing drug pricing legislation may depend in large part on the outcome of Texas v Azar, the GOP lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to former congressional and administration staff.

FDA on Friday (Aug. 30) announced a preliminary decision to reject nine more drug substances from its list of substances that can be compounded by 503B outsourcing facilities, which produce large batches of drugs using bulk drug substances for use at health care facilities.

Advocates for Medicaid expansion in Nebraska filed a lawsuit Wednesday (Aug. 28) seeking to force state officials to implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion nearly a year earlier than the Republican governor’s planned October 2020 launch date.

A federal district court consolidated hospitals’ lawsuits over deep reimbursement cuts for clinic visits at off-campus facilities after the providers in both cases agreed to join their litigation. Hospitals are pushing the court to hear oral arguments in September.

A vaping product manufacturer and a newly formed trade association representing the vaping industry are asking a federal court in Mississippi to overturn FDA’s deeming rule so that the agency no longer has authority to regulate electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products, including e-cigarettes.

Two new lawsuits, including one brought by health care providers, are seeking to block the Trump administration’s so-called public charge rule, which aims to make it harder for legal immigrants to become permanent U.S. residents if they use Medicaid or other forms of public assistance.