Recently, Attorney General Pam Bondi purportedly issued an internal memorandum in response to Executive Order 14187 (“Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”) concerning the treatment of transgender minors...more
5/23/2025
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Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Gender Identity ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Minors ,
New Legislation ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Transgender
The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation, LGBTQ protections, and consideration of race in college admissions. These decisions are wide-reaching and...more
7/7/2023
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False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Materiality ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Protected Activity ,
Public Disclosure ,
Reasonable Interpretations ,
Relators ,
Retaliation ,
SCOTUS ,
Subjective Standard ,
United States ex rel Polansky v Executive Health Resources Inc ,
Universal Health Services Inc v United States ex rel Escobar ,
US ex rel Thomas Proctor v Safeway Inc ,
US ex rel Tracy Schutte et al v SuperValu Inc et al
Following two weeks of trial testimony, a Travis County jury recently rendered a $10 million verdict in a novel corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) case. The jury found in favor of a physician hospitalist group that claimed...more