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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law |
| Title: | BD. OF EDUC. OF INDEP. SCH. DIST. NO. 92 OF POTTAWATAMIE COUNTY v. EARLS |
| Date: | 06/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-332 |
| Summary: | A school district policy, requiring students participating in extracurricular activities to consent to drug testing, reasonably furthers the district's important interest in preventing and deterring drug use by students, and does not violate the Fourth Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law |
| Title: | RUSH PRUDENTIAL HMO, INC. v. MORAN |
| Date: | 06/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1021 |
| Summary: | The Illinois HMO Act is a law which "regulates insurance" under ERISA's saving clause, and because congressional intent did not override that clause, ERISA does not preempt the Illinois HMO Act. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Health Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | US AIRWAYS, INC. v. BARNETT |
| Date: | 04/29/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1250 |
| Summary: | In an action brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, an employer's showing that an employee's requested accommodation conflicts with its seniority rules is ordinarily sufficient to show, as a matter of law, that the "accommodation" is not "reasonable," however, the employee remains free to present evidence of special circumstances that makes a seniority rule exception reasonable in the particular case; here, because the district court took a different view, and neither party has had opportunity to seek summary judgment in accordance with principles announced in opinion, Court of Appeals' judgment vacated and case remanded for further proceedings. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law |
| Title: | THOMPSON v. W. STATES MED. CTR. |
| Date: | 04/29/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-344 |
| Summary: | The Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997's prohibitions on soliciting prescriptions for, and advertising, compounded drugs, which are exempt from the FDA's standard drug approval requirements, amount to an unconstitutional restriction on commercial speech. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Government Benefits, Health Law |
| Title: | WISCONSIN DEPT. OF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVS. v. BLUMER |
| Date: | 02/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-952 |
| Summary: | The "income-first" method used by most states to calculate Medicaid eligibility for nursing home residents, which requires that potential income transfers from the institutionalized spouse be deemed "community spouse's income" for purposes of determining such eligibility, does not conflict with the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, enacted to protect the financial well-being of spouses of institutionalized nursing home residents. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Health Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | BARNHART v. SIGMON COAL CO. |
| Date: | 02/19/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1307 |
| Summary: | The plain language of the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 does not permit the Commissioner to assign health care benefit premiums of retired miners to the successors in interest of out-of-business signatory operators. |