Dorsey Assists Alaska Corporations to Hold Annual Virtual and Hybrid Meetings -
The Alaska Legislature unanimously passed Senate Bill 24, on March 22, 2021, allowing corporate shareholder meetings and nonprofit member...more
Shortly before COVID-19 halted jury proceedings across the United States, a Mississippi jury sided with the Government to return a $10.8 million verdict against Stone County Hospital and several affiliates for what the jury...more
Earlier we reported that on March 19, 2020 (Effective Collaboration with Governor Nets Pragmatic Solution) the Governor of the State of Alaska temporarily suspended certain provisions of the Alaska Corporations Code AS...more
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act” or “Stimulus Act”), signed into law on March 27, 2020, includes a program administered through the Small Business Administration (SBA) that will assist small...more
Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), which placed new limits on physician-owned hospitals, St. Luke’s Health System (“System”) took action to change one of its hospital’s ownership structures through a...more
12/11/2019
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Universal Health Services Inc v United States ex rel Escobar
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned its own precedent to hold the FCA’s first-to-file rule is “non-jurisdictional.” In so doing, the First Circuit flipped the district court’s award...more
5/22/2019
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