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U.S. District Court Ruling Vacates HIPAA Final Rule that Strengthened Privacy Protections for Reproductive Health Information

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On June 18, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division issued an opinion, Purl v. Department of Health and Human Services, declaring the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more

Fisher Phillips

Reproductive Healthcare Privacy Rule Struck Down Nationwide by Texas Judge: What Providers and Employer-Sponsored Health Plans...

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A federal judge in Texas just tossed out Biden-era reproductive healthcare privacy protections, halting a 2024 final rule with nationwide effect. The rule, which largely took effect in December and created new HIPAA privacy...more

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The New HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule: What You Need to Know

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Healthcare providers must comply with the new HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule (the “Rule”) by December 23, 2024. Here is what you need to know and do before then. Overview. In the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...more

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Texas Challenges HHS’s HIPAA Rule Protecting Reproductive Health Information from State Investigative Bodies

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Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint in federal district court against HHS and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) challenging a recently issued rule strengthening protection of protected health...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Access to Abortion Pill on the Precipice: A Deep Dive into the Federal Court Rulings that will Decide the Fate of Mifepristone 

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For a brief moment in time last April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, was curtailed. Just days after a Texas federal judge’s ruling suspended...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Post-Roe Texas: Unanticipated Effects of the Human Life Protection Act of 2021

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Last summer the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. On August 25, 2022, Texas’ Human Life Protection Act of 2021 (“HLPA” or the “Act”), colloquially...more

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Bounty Laws and Citizen Suits

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In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. While all eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Preparing for Impact: The Mifepristone Case in Texas Nears a Decision

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The legal status of mifepristone and misoprostol, drugs legally prescribed by physicians since 2000 for the medical termination of early pregnancy, may soon be decided by a federal court in Texas in a lawsuit known as...more

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Democratic AGs Align Against Texas Abortion Law

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Democratic AGs from 20 states and the District of Columbia, led by California AG Rob Bonta, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in support of the plaintiffs’ motion for...more

King & Spalding

HHS Says Hospitals Must Provide Abortions When an Emergency Medical Condition is Found to Exist; Texas Files Lawsuit in Response

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HHS released guidance on July 11, 2022, stating that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)—which requires hospitals and physicians to provide emergency medical treatment when an emergency medical...more

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In Wake of Dobbs Decision, CMS Issues Guidance to Hospitals on EMTALA Obligations

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Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) issued guidance to remind hospitals of their ongoing federal obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), specifically when treating patients...more

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Texas Pre- and Post-Dobbs Landscape

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As previously reported, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization held that the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the states, permitting states to regulate abortion within their borders. Thus, employers and...more

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