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“Coercive Control”: Parents Could Lose Custody Under Proposed Colorado Law for “Misgendering”

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Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit tossed the challenge, ruling that conversion therapy is harmful and the rule is part of an effort to regulate the healthcare profession. Under the state rule, a counselor can lose her license if she agrees to such counseling at the request of her parents.

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Q&A With Elena Kohn: Balancing the Fundamentals

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Elena Kohn has devoted her legal career to the intersection of business, health and employment law, moving from BigLaw to work in-house in the healthcare industry. There, I graduated from college at University College London and enrolled in the college of law to pursue my dream of becoming a lawyer. (Cum Laude), 2011.

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Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft

Constitutional Law Reporter

He was subsequently charged with healthcare fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The aggravated identity theft charge added a mandatory two-year prison sentence on top of the healthcare fraud charges.

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SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute

Constitutional Law Reporter

Facts of the Case Petitioner David Dubin was convicted of healthcare fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1028A(a)(1) applies when a defendant, “during and in relation to any [predicate offense, such as healthcare fraud], knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person.”

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

While none of the cases are considered “blockbusters,” the Court considered key issues related to employment, securities, healthcare, and white-collar criminal law. The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Last week, the justices heard oral arguments in four cases.

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Masks and mandates: How individual rights and government regulation are both necessary for a free society

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Professor Martha Ackelsberg is political theorist - she studies how communities are organized, how power is exercised and how people relate to one another in and between communities.

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SCOTUS Rejects Religious exemption Challenge to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Constitutional Law Reporter

Maine’s Center for Disease Control (“Maine CDC”) promulgated a regulation effective August 12, 2021, requiring all workers in licensed healthcare facilities to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. ” Maine has mandated that its healthcare workers be vaccinated against certain contagious diseases since 1989.