On June 24, 2025, the Supreme Court of Georgia vacated the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision refusing to apply Georgia’s $350,000 damages cap to reduce a $7.2 million award of wrongful death damages in a medical malpractice...more
Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that it, just five...more
7/23/2024
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Administrative Authority ,
Administrative Procedure Act ,
Affordable Housing ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Government Agencies ,
HUD ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Urban Planning & Development ,
USDA
Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that, just five years...more
On January 19, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released a favorable advisory opinion, OIG Advisory Opinion No. 22-01 (the “Opinion”), analyzing a proposed expansion of...more
2/15/2022
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Beneficiary Inducement ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Customer-Loyalty Programs ,
Discount Pricing ,
Food & Drug Regulations ,
Low-Income Issues ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Medicare Part B ,
Medicare Part D ,
OIG ,
Patient Access ,
Pharmacies ,
Prescription Drug Coverage ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Remuneration ,
Sanctions ,
Statutory Interpretation