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Oklahoma Senator Proposes Bill To Make Providing Transgender Healthcare A Crime — Even For Some Adults

The Crime Report

The bill, if enacted, would make providing or referring for this kind of care to anyone under 26 years old a felony offense with a statute of limitations of 40 years. .

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How Data-Based Policies Can Help the Formerly Incarcerated Get a ‘Second Chance’

The Crime Report

Kentucky has also taken major strides towards de-felonization , introducing two new laws to reduce the number of people convicted of felonies. Access to healthcare remains a challenge, and treatment for substance abuse and other mental health disorders is expensive without insurance coverage.

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Idaho House Passes Bill Criminalizing Medical Trans Youth Treatments

The Crime Report

A law passed by Texas legislators has been temporarily blocked by an Austin court after a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Lambda Legal on behalf of the parents of a transgender teenager who was being investigated for abuse by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

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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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Study Shows Low Safety Risk of Reducing Long Sentences

The Crime Report

Only three committed a felony crime against a person. A 2017 Pew Trusts study found that , per inmate, healthcare spending in 2015 had a median price tag of $5,680 across 48 states. Sixteen, or 2.3 percent, were convicted of any additional crimes over a three-year follow-up period. percent, which would slice prison costs dramatically.

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Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Illegally Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children Under 12

FDA Law Blog

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. By Kalie E.

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Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUS

FDA Law Blog

In its petition filed earlier this month, Pfizer challenges HHS’s interpretation of the AKS as “staggeringly overbroad,” contrary to the congressional intent behind the AKS, and a threat to “almost any activity that facilitates patient access to federally funded healthcare.” Background.