Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Health Law : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law |
| Title: | Clark v. Arizona |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–5966 |
| Summary: | Due process does not prohibit Arizona's use of an insanity test stated solely in terms of the capacity to tell whether an act charged as a crime was right or wrong. Further, Arizona does not violate due process in restricting consideration of defense evidence of mental illness and incapacity to its bearing on a claim of insanity, thus eliminating its significance directly on the issue of the mental element of the crime charged. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy |
| Date: | 06/26/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–18 |
| Summary: | An Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provision that permits a court to "award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs" to prevailing parents, does not authorize prevailing parents to recover expert fees. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | Arkansas Dep't of Health & Human Servs. v. Ahlborn |
| Date: | 05/01/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1506 |
| Summary: | Federal Medicaid law does not authorize a state's department of health services to assert a lien on a settlement in an amount exceeding the portion of the tort claimant's settlement constituting reimbursement for medical payments made, and a federal anti-lien provision affirmatively prohibits it from doing so. State third-party liability provisions are unenforceable insofar as they compel a different conclusion. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Remedies, Tax-exempt Organizations |
| Title: | Scheidler v. Nat'l Org. for Women, Inc. |
| Date: | 02/28/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1244 |
| Summary: | Physical violence unrelated to robbery or extortion falls outside the scope of the Hobbs Act. A judgment for respondents, a nonprofit organization supporting the availability of abortions and clinics that perform abortions, is reversed in a case brought under the Hobbs Act, RICO, and other extortion-related laws against individuals and organizations opposing legal abortion. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Food & Beverages, Health Law |
| Title: | Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal |
| Date: | 02/21/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1084 |
| Summary: | Grant of a preliminary injunction under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in favor of plaintiff, a church, against the government involving the church's use for communion of a tea containing a hallucinogen regulated by the Controlled Substances Act, is affirmed where there was no error in a determination that the government failed to demonstrate, at the preliminary injunction stage, a compelling interest in barring the church's sacramental use of the tea. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies |
| Title: | Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of N. New England |
| Date: | 01/18/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1144 |
| Summary: | A permanent injunction on enforcement of an abortion law requiring written parental notification prior to performance of an abortion on a pregnant minor is vacated and remanded for reconsideration of a more narrow remedy. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law |
| Title: | Gonzales v. Oregon |
| Date: | 01/17/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–623 |
| Summary: | The Controlled Substances Act does not allow the Attorney General to prohibit doctors from prescribing regulated drugs for use in physician-assisted suicide under state law permitting the procedure. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law |
| Title: | US v. Georgia |
| Date: | 01/10/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1203, 04–1236 |
| Summary: | Insofar as Title II of the American with Disabilities Act creates a private cause of action for damages against states for conduct that actually violates the Fourteenth Amendment, Title II validly abrogates state sovereign immunity. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Education Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Schaffer v. Weast |
| Date: | 11/14/05 |
| Case Number: | 04–698 |
| Summary: | In an action brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the burden of persuasion in an administrative hearing challenging an “individualized education program” (IEP) is properly placed upon the party seeking relief. |