The Courts

A federal appeals court panel ruled the Trump administration’s controversial rule preventing facilities that refer patients for abortions from receiving Title X funds may go into effect in every state except Maryland, scrapping a national injunction issued by a lower court.

FDA asks a Maryland court to give makers of all e-cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products at least 10 months to submit premarket applications.

The Democratic-led House on Friday (June 7) filed a ‘friend of the court’ brief in a Maryland federal court supporting five cities and two individuals who claim the Trump administration illegally sabotaged the Affordable Care Act, despite pledging to “take care” to faithfully execute all laws.

New Hampshire told a federal judge Thursday (June 6) that imposing Medicaid work requirements and rolling back retroactive eligibility are “common-sense measures designed to provide medical assistance to eligible populations in a fiscally responsible and sustainable manner.”

As all eyes are on Oklahoma’s trial against drug maker Johnson & Johnson over its role in the opioid epidemic, the number of states filing charges against opioid makers is stacking up.

FDA officials celebrated a decision by a federal judge against a Florida-based stem cell drug manufacturer against which the agency had been seeking a permanent injunction for selling adulterated and misbranded products.

The Trump administration on Friday (May 31) filed its opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia challenging a lower court decision to vacate key provisions of the Department of Labor’s final rule on association health plans (AHPs).

The Department of Justice and the White House have yet to respond to a May 13 letter from five House committee chairs who are seeking background material and other information on the administration’s decision to stop defending any part of the Affordable Care Act in the high-profile Texas v. Azar case, congressional aides confirm.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court is preparing to weigh in on the validity of a proposed ballot measure that seeks to expand Medicaid in Oklahoma, and the legal fight turns on a question raised by a well-known bit of mathematical minutia in the Affordable Care Act: whether the Medicaid expansion eligibility ceiling is best understood as 133% of the federal poverty level or 138% of the federal poverty level.