Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law

Inmates Claim County is Depriving Them of Basic Medical and Mental Health Care - Similar Lawsuits Expected to be Filed as Counties...

by Jared A. Goldman | Best Best & Krieger LLP on 3/26/2013

Inmates in the Riverside County jails served a federal class-action lawsuit last week, claiming the county is subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment by depriving them of basic medical and mental health care. Among...more

Religious Institutions Update: January 2013

by Nathan A. Adams IV | Holland & Knight LLP on 1/4/2013

In 2000, Congress enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq. (RLUIPA), in recognition that "new, small, or unfamiliar churches in particular, are frequently discriminated...more

Commento a dichiarazioni di Mario Monti sul finanziamento del SSN

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 12/10/2012

Commento di Fabio pammolli e Nicola C. salerno a dichiarazioni di Mario Monti sul finanziamento del SSN...more

Must Christian For-Profit Companies Comply With the HHS Mandate?

by Theresa Lynn Sidebotham on 12/4/2012

Christian for-profit companies may object to providing insurance covering contraceptive, sterilization, or abortifacient services based on the religious beliefs of their owners. Five recent cases test whether the HHS mandate...more

Palo Alto Boy Returns To School After DNA Flap

by Stephen Jaffe on 11/6/2012

A Palo Alto 6th grade boy was allowed to return to his middle school after his family convinced the school officials that they did not need to worry about his genes....more

Boy In School Flap Over Cystic Fibrosis

by Stephen Jaffe on 11/6/2012

A Palo Alto middle school ordered an 11 year old boy to move to another middle school 3 miles away because it believed that his genetic makeup was a health risk to some of its other students....more

How Broad are Illinois' State Rights to Privacy and Gender Equality?

by Sedgwick LLP on 9/20/2012

Our preview of the September term of the Illinois Supreme Court concludes with Hope Clinic for Women v. Adams. Although Hope Clinic arises from a constitutional challenge to Illinois’ Parental Notice of Abortion Act, the...more

Labor Letter - August 2012: Was The Supreme Court Term Actually Boring?

by Fisher & Phillips LLP on 8/3/2012

A Review of the 2011-2012 Supreme Court's Labor & Employment Decisions In the same year that the Supreme Court issued one of the most important decisions in its history, which ended up being the biggest employment law...more

Legal links of interest for the week ending July 28

by Steven Getman on 7/28/2012

Attorney Steven Getman reports on a number of stories about the law and lawyers in the news this week: • Addressing threats to an independent judiciary • How colleges suppress free speech • Federal...more

Governance della spesa pharma e farmaci ad alto costo

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 6/7/2012

Il qaudro nomativo e regolatorio italiano alla prova della governace dei farmaci innovativi ad alto costo. Serve bilanciare le esigenze di sostenibilità della spesa con la finalitò di rendere disponibili ai...more

Spending Review e Universalismo Selettivo. La Sanità in Italia

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 5/12/2012

Il primo passo obbligato per la spending review in sanità è l'inserimento di principi di selettività nell'offerta delle prestazioni. Dall'universalismo assoluto all'universalismo selettivo....more

Disabled Nurse Cannot Escape Employer’s Attendance Policy

by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 4/27/2012

A recent court ruling could make it easier for employers to insist on regular attendance, even with disabled employees. Earlier this month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a nurse’s claim that her...more

Il caso dell'Ospedale di Hinchingbrook - Commento di Nicola C. Salerno (Direttore del CeRM)

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 3/15/2012

L’esperienza del Regno Unito va, a mio modo di vedere, letta su di un piano di principi d’azione, che poi possono essere implementati in maniera diversa a seconda della realtà Paese, e anche della...more

Utah Employment Law Letter - March 2012: Hostile Work Environment: Sraight from the heart: Nurse files claims over operation...

by Kirton McConkie PC on 3/1/2012

This case comes at you straight from the heart, literally. Read on to find out how a nurse attempted to turn an incident involving a piece of tissue flung during heart surgery into claims that her rights under the First...more

SaniMod-Reg 2012-2030 by CeRM

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 2/15/2012

Finalmente assieme proiezioni regionalizzate della spesa sanitaria (standard e lorda delle inefficienze) e proiezioni regionalizzate delle fonti di finanziamento. L'orizzonte si spinge sino al 2030, con quantificazioni anno...more

Court Could Erase Sick Leave Rights for 5 Million Workers

by Lawyers.com on 2/6/2012

The U.S. Supreme Court may rule that state governments can fire their workers just for calling in sick. The Family and Medical Leave Act says employers have to allow workers to take unpaid time off if they’re...more

Immigration Alert: February 2012

by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. on 2/6/2012

In this issue; - OSC Targets Health Care, Hospitality, Retail, and Other Industries - OSC Settles with California Medical Center Regarding Claims of Discrimination Against Foreign Nationals - Massachusetts...more

Valentine’s Day Is A Popular Day To Get Engaged

by Howard Ankin on 2/1/2012

Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular days to get engaged and this year both heterosexual and homosexual couples will be able to plan for a licensed happily-ever-after event due to the Illinois Religious...more

Pezzi di Welfare dimenticati (sinora) dal Federalismo

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 11/29/2011

"Pezzi di Welfare dimenticati (sinora) dal Federalismo", articolo a firma di Luisa Sciandra (Istat) e Nicola C. Salerno (CeRM)...more

The Calm Before The Storm?

by Fisher & Phillips LLP on 11/3/2011

An Employment Law Preview of the 2011-2012 Supreme Court Term After the turbulent roller-coaster ride to which the Supreme Court treated employers the last few sessions, businesses across the country are casting a wary...more

Le farmacie nel Diritto dell'Economia

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 8/25/2011

Nel dibattito che accompagna i tentativi di riforma degli esercizi farmaceutici e della distribuzione del farmaco si continua, in maniera pretestuosa, a far riferimento a un presunto contrasto tra da un lato le indicazioni...more

Convegno su Federalismo Sanitario - 22 Luglio 2011 - Perugia

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 7/22/2011

La prima parte della presentazione è dedicata al benchmarking interregionale basato su profili di spesa sanitaria per fascia di età. Questo confronto, a meno di alcuni aspetti che saranno precisati, può...more

La responsabilità' professionale dello psichiatra

by Flavio Stella on 7/1/2011

La responsabilita' professionale dello psichiatra non si differenzia da quella degli altri medici....more

IL CONSENSO INFORMATO IN PSICHIATRIA

by Flavio Stella on 6/28/2011

La prassi clinica e psichiatrica non può e non deve discostarsi da quelli che sono i fondamenti legali e disciplinari della relativa competenza specialistica....more

Presentazione di Nicola C. Salerno (CeRM) a convegno annuale di Federfarma (Palazzo della Cooperazione, Roma)

by Nicola Carmine Salerno on 6/23/2011

Presentazione di Nicola C. Salerno (CeRM) a convegno annuale di Federfarma (Palazzo della Cooperazione, Roma)...more

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