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Supreme Court Holds Medicaid Participants Lack Standing to Enforce “Any-Qualified-Provider” Clause

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On June 26, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid providers and beneficiaries lack the ability to enforce the Medicaid Act’s “any‑qualified‑provider” clause in federal court. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the Court...more

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Illinois Insights: An update from Cozen O'Connor (6/23)

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Here's why Illinois Republican lawmakers sued Democrat leaders -“Republican lawmakers in Illinois filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County on June 17, arguing that the Democratic Majority passed a special interest proposal...more

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Democratic AGs Sue to Protect States’ Access to Federal EV Infrastructure Funds

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A group of 17 Democratic AGs has filed suit to block the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration from revoking or withholding funds allocated to states under the National Electric Vehicle...more

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Client Alert: Title IX vs. States' Rights: Who Will Win?

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Since January, multiple fundamental developments have dramatically altered the Title IX landscape, signaling a seismic shift in its interpretation and enforcement. These developments include a rapidly escalating and public...more

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President Trump Issues Executive Order on Election Integrity

On March 25, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” This far-reaching Executive Order requires federal and state authorities to implement...more

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Client Alert: Administration’s Attempt to Freeze all Federal Financial Assistance is Stalled by Court Ruling

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On January 27, 2025, the new Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Memorandum ordering a total freeze on “all federal financial assistance” that could be targeted under his previous executive orders...more

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Disruptions to the Medicaid System, Alongside Trump Administration’s Freeze of Federal Funding to Agencies, Results in Lawsuit by...

On the evening of January 27, 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a “Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies” titled, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and...more

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Take Two: Rhode Island District Court Again Directs Trump Administration to Unfreeze Federal Funds

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Despite two Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) issued by federal courts in Rhode Island and Washington, DC, the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island found that the Trump Administration’s funding freeze...more

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Federal Freeze Rescinded: Implications for Tribal Governments and ANCs

On January 27th, the Trump administration ordered a freeze on all disbursements of federal funds through a memorandum signed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB memo stated that the freeze does not apply to...more

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Democratic AGs Give Chilly Reception to Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more

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Frozen Federal Aid: How Office of Management and Budget’s Directive to Pause Federal Financial Assistance Will Impact You and...

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Minutes before the federal funding freeze was poised to go into effect, a federal judge issued an order temporarily blocking the funding freeze. The District Court for the District of Columbia issued the order in response to...more

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Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 17, 2020

This 17th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, discusses everything from insurance coverage disputes to statewide shutdown orders. Despite an uphill climb towards liability, businesses...more

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Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Constitutionality of State’s Education Funding System

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The Fifth District recently upheld the dismissal of a complaint filed by 22 Illinois school districts against Governor Pritzker and the State of Illinois challenging the constitutionality of the state’s public education...more

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Polsinelli Obtains Favorable Decision in Challenge to Colorado’s Medicaid Funding Program

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Medicaid is a shared federal and state program. Federal and state dollars are combined so states can furnish Medicaid health coverage to poor and disabled Coloradans including many who need nursing facility care. ...more

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President Trump’s Sanctuary City Executive Order blocked by California Judge

In the latest blow to President Trump’s immigration agenda, on Tuesday a federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal funds from so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions.” U.S. District...more

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