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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

History and Future of the Nation's First Ban on Gender-Affirming Care

Baker Donelson on 6/17/2024

Across the United States, there is a trend of state legislatures passing laws that restrict, or even outright prohibit, transgender minors from access to gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy,...more

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 1, May 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/21/2024

Welcome to our inaugural issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! As such, we wanted to pull together our insights and pass them along to you. Our goal is to create a publication that is...more

EEOC Files Lawsuit Against Yale Hospital for Age Discrimination of Older Clinicians

Saul Ewing LLP on 7/17/2020

In February 2020, just prior to COVID-19 dominating the news, wreaking havoc on the health care delivery system and leading to tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of positive cases, the Equal Employment...more

Title IX - A New Pathway for Sex Discrimination Claims by Medical Residents?

Poyner Spruill LLP on 11/8/2018

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. (Title IX) has received a lot of attention recently for its impact on college athletic programs. Both male and female sports have grown increasingly...more

HHS Proposes Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health Care

K&L Gates LLP on 9/22/2015

On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) proposed new regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Section 1557 prohibits...more

Telehealth News

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 7/14/2015

Iowa Supreme Court Rejects Ban on Telemedicine Abortions - An Iowa Board of Medicine rule requires the presence of a physician when abortion inducing drugs are provided....more

Baptist Health South Florida Sued by EEOC for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/24/2013

Physician With Epilepsy Denied a Reasonable Accommodation and Fired by Coral Gables Doctor's Hospital, Federal Agency Charged - MIAMI - Baptist Health South Florida, a Miami-based hospital system, violated federal law...more

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