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CMS’s Rescission of 2022 EMTALA Guidance Presents New Considerations for Hospitals, Post-Dobbs

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently rescinded its July 2022 guidance titled “Reinforcement of EMTALA Obligations specific to Patients who are Pregnant or are Experiencing Pregnancy Loss” (“2022...more

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Texas District Court Vacates HIPAA Reproductive Healthcare Rule

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On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order to vacate a large portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Criminalizing Reproductive Care and Abortion Services through Telehealth

The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write:...more

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State Attorneys General Take to the Courts on the EEOC’s Final Regulation Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

When Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) was decided, the issue of abortion regulation was returned to the states. This gave rise to a patchwork of new restrictive state abortion laws leading to inevitable...more

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Client Alert: Key Takeaways from SCOTUS Arguments in Idaho EMTALA Abortion Cases

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Moyle v. United States, Case No. 23-726 and Idaho v. United States, Case No. 23-727. These cases asked the justices to consider whether the...more

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EMTALA Abortion Question Set Up for Supreme Court Review

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As we’ve discussed in previous alerts (here and here), after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion and returned the question of abortion regulation to the states,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Access to Abortion Pill in Limbo: Navigating the Intricacies of Conflicting Federal Court Rulings in Texas and Washington State

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, has been curtailed following dueling federal court decisions in Texas and Washington. Just days after a Texas...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

McDermott Health 2023 Annual Report - Digital Health: 2022 Year in Review

Digital health is one of the fast-growing segments of the healthcare market, with patients, clinicians and regulators increasingly aligned behind the opportunities that digitization presents. Over the last three years,...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

State Attorneys General Flex in a Post-Dobbs world – can complying with federal regulatory guidance constitute racketeering...

Are State Attorneys General expanding their reach in this Post-Dobbs world? On February 1, 2023, twenty state Attorneys General signed letters to both CVS and Walgreens warning the giant retail pharmacies against mailing...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Love and Marriage: How the Respect for Marriage Act Affects Employers (or Does It?)

On December 13, President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which passed the Senate and House with bipartisan support. Many see the bill as a reaction to a concurrence in the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v....more

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Five States Put Abortion Questions on the Ballot; Health Care and Other Employers Should Stay Tuned

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In the wake of the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we have been closely monitoring legal developments across the country. In addition to well publicized “trigger laws” that were effectuated...more

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State Attorneys General on the Abortion Frontlines

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, state attorneys general are, not surprisingly, joining the frontlines of the ensuing state-by-state debate on abortion rights. ...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Post-Roe Risk Mitigation Checklist - Are you Protecting Your Organization?

The Dobbs decision has triggered widespread legal uncertainty concerning the delivery of reproductive and family planning services. About half of the U.S. states already prohibit or heavily limit abortion services or are...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

The Overturning of Roe v. Wade

June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs), overturning Roe v. Wade (Roe) and upending 50 years of precedent protecting a woman’s right to...more

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Employer-Provided Abortion & Travel Benefits: An Overview of Legal Considerations

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In the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many companies have announced plans to assist employees in accessing abortion services, including providing travel...more

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Preparing for the Demise of Roe v. Wade and the Criminalization of Abortion in Some US States: Practical Considerations for a...

Sometime in the next several weeks, the Supreme Court of the United States will issue its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs). Based on the draft majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito...more

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