An environmental group wants a federal judge to order the Navy to verify all of the cleanup work at Hunter's Point after a former contractor falsified samples and said it was clean.
CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit dismissed the appeal brought by a Catholic health care group and the American College of Pediatricians, who both challenged a Biden administration “gender identity mandate” that required doctors to perform gender-affirming care even if it defies their religious beliefs or medical judgment. Because the administration updated its guidance this year, the matter is moot and the appeal is dismissed.
Over a year after being signed into law, the state's highest court found the Texas Legislature has the authority to ban gender-affirming care for minors.
In total, 193 people — including 76 doctors, nurse practitioners, and other licensed medical professionals — were charged in a series of separate cases.
The justices said states must abide by a federal mandate protecting access to emergency reproductive care.
The high court’s ruling throws a multibillion-dollar opioid settlement into a tailspin over a provision blocking future lawsuits.
Jurors last year convicted three former executives of tech startup Outcome Health on multiple fraud charges.
The high court acknowledged the ruling briefly appeared online this morning.
DENVER — A Colorado doctor settled her lawsuit against the Catholic hospital that fired her after she consoled a terminally ill patient seeking aid-in-dying. The terms of the settlement are not disclosed, and each party is paying their own fees and costs.
HOUSTON — An appeals court in Texas found that a mother properly served a timely expert report to the doctor she is suing after he botched her infant son’s circumcision, which went so poorly that the child will need plastic surgery and skin grafts to correct the errors. She served the report, before suing, to the doctor’s professional liability insurance carrier, which satisfied the service requirements.
Abortion rights were added to the state constitution by nearly 57% of voters in 2022, months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
