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The application of the “continuing violations” doctrine beyond “hostile workplace” claims

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dba Cover Girls , in which the justices have been asked to decide when the statute of limitations begins to run on a claim of a pattern or practice of racial discrimination. 1981 , which prohibits racial discrimination in making and enforcing contracts. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit affirmed in a brief per curiam opinion.

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D.C. Circuit Sides with Manufacturers in Latest 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

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Carole Johnson (consolidated cases), the Court found that the conditions set by Novartis and United Therapeutics on covered entities did not violate the 340B statute, although more restrictive conditions could violate the law. A number of drug companies sued to enjoin enforcement. Novartis and United Therapeutics Corporation sued in the D.C.

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PhRMA Sues Arkansas for Meddling in the Federal 340B Drug Discount Program

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By Faraz Siddiqui — Last week, we blogged about a growing list of drug manufacturers that have refused to follow a 2010 guidance issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), which permits 340B covered entities to contract with multiple pharmacies to dispense drugs to covered entity patients. Code Ann. § Code Ann.§

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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

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One “friend of the court” brief filed in support of Pulsifer tells the justices that the lower court’s ruling “turns the statute on its head by foreclosing safety-valve relief for the vast majority of defendants to whom the statutory amendment might apply.”

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” Supreme Court determined was preempted in Hughes v.

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Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

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To promote tribal self-governance, Congress allows tribes to contract with the Indian Health Service to oversee these programs themselves. The program also provides for the agency to pay the tribe “contract support costs” that the tribe uses to run the program, because it lacks the existing bureaucracy to operate the program.

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Whether “bump stocks” are “machineguns,” and a very specific arbitration issue

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Circuit upheld the regulation, holding that “the disputed rule is consistent with the best interpretation of ‘machine gun’ under the governing statutes.” Maryland and Napue v. In Cargill , the en banc U.S. Coinbase asserts that this situation arises frequently, and it argues that the circuits are divided: While the U.S.

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