July 22, 2022
A new and fast-growing coalition of BigLaw and boutique firms is steeling itself for "a decadeslong fight" to protect patients and providers from legal jeopardy after U.S. Supreme Court conservatives eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, an attorney spearheading the alliance told Law360 in an expansive interview.
July 21, 2022
A spree of remarkable rulings has already made 2022 a jaw-dropping year for health care and pharmaceutical law, where the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped abortion rights, opioid crisis prosecutions, Medicare's rulemaking powers and vital sources of hospital income. At the midyear mark, Law360 recaps the rulings and analyzes their implications.
June 24, 2022
Lawyers for the health care industry's myriad participants — hospitals, pharmacies, telemedicine platforms, investors and more — are fielding countless queries about ethical duties to patients and a minefield of legal risks after the U.S. Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion and allowed states to criminalize the procedure.
June 24, 2022
President Joe Biden on Friday called the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning abortion rights a "tragic error" and called on Congress to codify abortion protections into law.
June 24, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Mississippi abortion ban and overturned the constitutional abortion right established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade, setting the stage for a widespread rollback of abortion rights in many statehouses around the country.
June 23, 2022
America arrived at its current crossroads for abortion rights after a 50-year odyssey of unrelenting litigation shaped by lawyers from all walks of legal life. With U.S. Supreme Court conservatives poised to curtail those rights, Law360 looks at attorneys whose arguments during the past half-century changed the course of a profound cultural debate.
May 04, 2022
Two unions with close ties to health care — National Nurses United and the Service Employees International Union — issued statements condemning the Supreme Court draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade regarding women's access to abortions.
May 03, 2022
A draft U.S. Supreme Court decision by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. eliminating women's constitutional right to abortion seems concerned with convincing a bare majority of conservative justices and makes surprisingly little effort to win over Chief Justice John Roberts, according to legal experts.
May 03, 2022
Justice Samuel Alito's leaked draft majority opinion indicating the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade provides a glimpse into the otherwise mysterious process of putting together a high court opinion.
May 03, 2022
Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday asked the marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court to launch an investigation into a leaked draft opinion that suggests the high court is prepared to strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that made abortion legal in all 50 states.