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Plaintiffs Lack Standing To Challenge Health Care Act, 9th Circuit Affirms
Posted on 15 Aug 2011 by Cheryl Keely

SAN FRANCISCO - (Mealey's) A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 13 affirmed a lower court ruling that plaintiffs challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Act (PPACA) lacked standing to challenge the act because they... Read More

Tags: health care , Steve Baldwin , individual mandate , Sebelius , Department of Labor , Health Care Reform , Health Insurance , 9th Circuit , PPACA , Litigation , Solis , Pacific Justice Institute , Timothy Geithner , Department of Health and Human Services

Supreme Court Denies Review Of Health Care Reform Suit
Posted on 9 Nov 2010 by Cheryl Keely

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 8 declined review of the first petition for writ of certiorari filed in a case challenging the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ( Steven Baldwin, et al. v. Kathleen... Read More

Tags: Steven Baldwin v. Kathleen Sebelius , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , health care insurance , Steve Baldwin , insurance law , Department of Labor , Health Care Reform , managed care , PPACA , Litigation , Kathleen Sebelius , lawsuit , Hilda Solis , U.S. Supreme Court , Department of Transportation , Pacific Justice Institute , Timothy Geithner , Department of Health and Human Services

New Food Safety Law Protects Whistleblowers
Posted on 14 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MINNEAPOLIS - (AP) Food industry workers who become whistleblowers gained protection against retaliation from their employers with a little-noticed provision in the sweeping food safety law President Barack Obama signed last month. The Food Safety and... Read More

Tags: Damages , Food and Drug Administration , food safety , Department of Labor , FDA , Government Accountability Project , Whistleblowers , Obama , Peanut Corp. of America , Litigation , Food Safety and Modernization Act , lawsuit , salmonella , foodborne illness , Harkin , food industry

Maine Labor Mural Now Subject Of Federal Lawsuit
Posted on 4 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

PORTLAND, Maine - (AP) Maine Gov. Paul LePage's decision to remove a mural about the state's labor history from the Department of Labor in Augusta is now subject of a federal lawsuit. A lawsuit that's being filed Friday in U.S. District Court... Read More

Tags: Maine , mural , Department of Labor , labor , Litigation , Augusta lawsuit , LePage