Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. This week, we recap the U.S. Supreme Court’s term and its impact on employers.
U.S. Supreme Court Employment Law Decisions in Review (see video attached)
The Supreme Court’s term ended on...more
7/14/2021
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Agricultural Workers ,
Article III ,
Breach of Duty ,
California v Texas ,
Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid ,
Class Action ,
Class Members ,
Commerce Clause ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Credit Reports ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Farm Workers ,
Farms ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Individual Mandate ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Just Compensation ,
Medicaid ,
Pensions ,
Preemption ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Takings Clause ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
TransUnion ,
TransUnion LLC v Ramirez ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions ,
United Farm Workers
Oral arguments in California v. Texas offer a glimpse at how the Supreme Court might rule in deciding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Attorneys Stuart Gerson and Tim Murphy also look at what Justice Amy Coney...more
11/19/2020
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Article III ,
California v Texas ,
Commerce Clause ,
Individual Mandate ,
Medicaid ,
Oral Argument ,
SCOTUS ,
Standing ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Trump Administration
In an unexpectedly broad ruling issued December 14, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas declared the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) as unconstitutional in its entirety. This decision, if ultimately...more
12/19/2018
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Appointments Clause ,
Benefit Plan Sponsors ,
Biosimilars ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Declaratory Judgments ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Group Health Plans ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
HRA ,
Individual Mandate ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Kathleen Sebelius ,
Medicaid ,
Medicaid Expansion ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Severability Doctrine ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
On June 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a unanimous decision in the highly anticipated False Claims Act (“FCA”) case of Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar.[1] In its...more
On August 3, 2015, in United States ex rel. Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al., No. 1:11-cv-02325 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 3, 2015), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first reported...more
On March 31, 2015, a 5-4 plurality of the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Medicaid providers do not have a private right of action under the Medicaid statute to challenge reimbursement rates. The Supreme Court’s...more