January 21, 2025
Several state attorneys general are looking to defend immigrants' Affordable Care Act coverage, while a group of pharmacy benefit managers failed to oust the FTC's Democratic members from a case alleging collusion to inflate insulin prices. Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at the cases and decisions that shaped the industry over the last week.
January 15, 2025
Florida urged an Eleventh Circuit panel on Wednesday to overturn an order declaring the state's ban on certain types of medical treatment for gender dysphoria unconstitutional, arguing the lower court wrongly used the condition as a proxy for transgender individuals in ruling that the prohibition was proof of discriminatory animus.
January 07, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear from Cornell University workers looking to revive a retirement plan mismanagement suit and a former firefighter who says federal disability bias law protects post-employment benefits, while circuit courts will weigh gender-affirming care restrictions and a battle over pension annuity payments. Here, Law360 looks at five arguments that benefits attorneys ought to keep an eye on this month.
December 16, 2024
One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.
October 03, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit said Thursday it would not reconsider a decision that allowed a Florida law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restricts it for adults to take effect.
August 27, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit has said a Florida law can take effect that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restricts it for adults, granting the state's bid to scrap an injunction barring the law while it appeals a lower court ruling that found the statute unconstitutional.
August 06, 2024
Florida officials have implored the Eleventh Circuit to allow enforcement of the state's recently enacted law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults, arguing that a federal judge's order to enjoin enforcement of the law was erroneous.
July 31, 2024
Lowenstein Sandler LLP attorneys led the litigation team behind a recent federal court ruling blocking a Florida law banning or restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults.
July 30, 2024
Transgender adults and children in Florida on Monday urged the Eleventh Circuit to reject the state's attempt to enforce a law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults while the case is on appeal.
July 18, 2024
Florida officials have urged the Eleventh Circuit to immediately allow enforcement of a law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults despite an appeal, saying that a lower court wrongly determined the law was discriminatory and that patients will be harmed if "life-altering" medical procedures are not outlawed.