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US Supreme Court rules in favor of hospitals in Medicare reimbursement dispute

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may not cut Medicare drug reimbursement for a specific group of hospitals without a survey of hospitals’ pharmaceutical acquisition costs. Justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the court, reversing the DC circuit.

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Supreme Court rules US courts lack jurisdiction over forced art sale under Nazi rule

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In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the heirs of Jewish art dealers cannot bring a lawsuit in US courts against Germany over the alleged forced sale of art and artifacts under the Nazi regime. The Court directed the lower court to reconsider the case in light of the opinion in Germany v.

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Supreme Court will consider major case on power of federal regulatory agencies

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Natural Resources Defense Council , the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron. Share Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v.

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Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed

SCOTUSBlog

Suri told the justices that this was not a question of convenience, but instead about Congresss choice in the statute to delineate where cases can be brought. RJR Vapor is incorporated and located in North Carolina, where challenges to the FDAs denials of applications to sell e-cigarettes had been unsuccessful.

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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

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With the acquisition, Fastcase became the sole legal research provider for the bar associations of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. He described the service as a basic research service with cases, statutes, administrative materials and court rules. million lawyers in the country.

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Gun Violence: When ‘Self-Defense’ Becomes Murder

The Crime Report

All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow “initial aggressor” limitations on self-defense claims. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. Nevertheless, according to the paper written by Cynthia Lee, the Edward F.

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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

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The case promises to be a showdown between the Supreme Court and lower courts, which have been chipping away at the high court’s prior Second Amendment rulings. In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.

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