BREAKING: A 6-3 Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, finding the International Emergency Economic Powers Act *doesn’t* authorize the president to issue them. #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

New: A pharma trade group has urged the 1st Circ. to overturn a district court's order siding with a Rhode Island law that bars drug manufacturers from blocking hospitals from contracting with outside pharmacies to dispense discounted drugs under the 340B Drug Program. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: The 4th Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Department of Defense policy that bans HIV-positive Americans from enlisting, deferring to the military's judgment that it must have fit service members who do not require consistent treatment for chronic medical conditions. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: A Chicago plumbers union told a federal court Tues. that the PBM Express Scripts violated federal law when it used a Switzerland-based company to hide kickbacks it generated by charging drug companies fees for key placement on prescription plan drug lists. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s declaration supporting the Trump administration's move to cut funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care is a nonbinding policy view, his agency told an Oregon federal court, and doesn't trigger exclusions from health programs. www.law360.com/health/artic...

A major transgender medical group and a pediatric healthcare organization are seeking to end what they call "unlawful" consumer protection investigations from the FTC. www.law360.com/artic...

New: A transgender medical group and a pediatric healthcare organization are seeking to end what they call "unlawful" consumer protection investigations from the Federal Trade Commission that want information pertaining to gender-affirming care for minors. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: A 5th Circuit panel upheld on Monday a Louisiana law that allows the state to stop prescription drug manufacturers from blocking safety-net healthcare providers from contracting with outside pharmacies to dispense discounted medicines under the 340B program. www.law360.com/articles/243...

Novo Nordisk said it plans to take legal action against Hims & Hers Health Inc. after the telehealth company revealed a "knockoff" version of Novo's popular weight loss drug Wegovy.

New analysis: At least eight states are planning changes to their certificate of need programs, often called CON, in an effort to qualify for a bigger slice of the federal funding under the Trump administration's Rural Health Transformation Program.

New: GenBioPro asserted its right Wednesday to defend mifepristone, moving to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by Louisiana that alleges that federal regulators violated federal law by removing an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug. www.law360.com/articles/243...

New: A Second Circuit panel seemed poised Tuesday to find that an anesthesiology practice didn't suffer an antitrust injury in its claim that a United Healthcare unit used its market power in New York to cut reimbursement rates. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: A proposed class action's allegations that Anthem Health Plans maintains inaccurate mental health directories known as ghost provider networks aren't true and are "legally deficient," the insurer argued while urging a Connecticut court to toss the suit. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: A proposed class of medical providers and collection agencies accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of colluding to exclude medical debt under $500 from consumer credit reports is opposing a bid by the credit bureaus to appeal a ruling that denied dismissal. www.law360.com/health/artic...

The Supreme Court has agreed this term to hear the fewest number of cases since the Civil War. While #SCOTUS's emergency/shadow docket often gets flak for overwhelming the court, some say this term's caseload is part of a bigger, more concerning trend. www.law360.com/articles/243...

New: The Trump administration is fighting an effort by a group of states to preserve at least six months of funding for K-12 mental health grants meant to help students process gun violence, arguing an earlier court ruling doesn't require the feds to fund the grants. www.law360.com/health/artic...

Republicans on a Senate health panel Wednesday called for the FDA to reinstate a requirement that pregnant women seeking an abortion via medication must have the drug administered in a doctor's office, not through telehealth or remotely. www.law360.com/artic...

New: Republicans on a Senate health panel Wednesday called for the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate a requirement that pregnant women seeking an abortion via medication must have the drug administered in a doctor's office, not through telehealth or remotely. www.law360.com/health/artic...

New: HHS indicated it will distribute nearly $12 million in pediatric health funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics after a federal judge earlier this week ordered the agency to disburse the money.

New: The suit came after public statements from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested the agency was retaliating for differing views on the childhood vaccination schedule, gender-affirming care and a separate lawsuit challenging Kennedy's overhaul of the CDC’s vaccine committee.

New: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not weigh in on a circuit court decision that a California public nuisance lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers over their opioid-dispensing practices belongs in state court. www.law360.com/articles/242...

New: HonorBridge told a federal court this week that a new CMS runs afoul of federal law by contradicting congressional intent, replacing the current system of regional exclusivity for organ procurers with a competitive model that pits OPOs against one another in a "Hunger-Games-style" competition.

New: A biotech company that developed a patented protein technology that expedited the development of Moderna's COVID-19 Spikevax vaccine sued HHS on Wednesday, claiming the feds infringed its patent through a contract to develop a vaccine with the pharma giant. www.law360.com/articles/242...

The Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state's near-total abortion ban and a first-of-its-kind prohibition on abortion pills on Tuesday, saying the laws violated the state constitution.

New: The Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state's near-total abortion ban and a first-of-its-kind prohibition on abortion pills on Tuesday, saying the laws violated the state constitution. www.law360.com/articles/242...

A Kentucky woman was indicted by a grand jury today for first-degree fetal homicide after taking abortion medication without a doctor’s advisement. She was also indicted for concealing the birth of an infant, abuse of a corpse & tampering with physical evidence, according to court records.

JUST IN: The Supreme Court will announce its first opinion of the term this Friday, Jan. 9, per the court's website. #SCOTUS

Amid public outcry, federal health officials on Monday revised vaccine recommendations for American children, cutting the number from 18 to 11 and bringing the United States in line with other developed countries such as Denmark.

New: Amid public outcry, federal health officials on Monday revised vaccine recommendations for American children, cutting the number from 18 to 11 and bringing the United States in line with other developed countries such as Denmark. www.law360.com/articles/242...

New: The Trump administration is backing Biden's signature Medicare drug price negotiation law before the Supreme Court, arguing that other agencies regularly negotiate prescription drug prices and that Medicare should be no different.

New: As drugmakers test drug pricing policies in court, healthcare advocates will be paying particular interest to the next, and perhaps final, stage of pharma's effort to stymie the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program through AstraZeneca's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A grand jury has indicted telehealth startup Done Global, alleging it had a role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that involved submitting false claims to government health programs and distributing $100 million in Adderall and other drugs through subscription services. www.law360.com/artic...

The U.S. Supreme Court said it won't review a decision allowing a retrial of a Maryland doctor who was initially found guilty of a COVID-19 testing scheme but then secured an acquittal. www.law360.com/artic...

A Sixth Circuit appeals panel gave few hints Thursday on whether it would send back to state court a lawsuit from Ohio alleging that pharmacy benefit managers were driving up prescription prices through rebate schemes. www.law360.com/artic...

The U.S. Supreme Court said a Louisiana appeals court incorrectly found that a state law bars an HIV patient from alleging federal discrimination claims after being denied aquatherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.law360.com/artic...

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom. Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5. newsguild.org/release-stan...

New: An Eleventh Circuit panel ruled Thursday that no Alabama state law prevents a county from facing liability for an incarcerated person's death due to substandard healthcare from a third-party medical provider the county hired. www.law360.com/health/artic...

Five years after suing state officials over a denied "certificate of need" application, a North Carolina eye surgeon was back in court to challenge a state medical control spending law. www.law360.com/healt... #HealthcareAuthority

A Washington federal judge rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt a temporary injunction, which blocks federal officials from withholding federal healthcare funds to hospitals in four states that provide gender-affirming care.

New analysis: Legal experts fear an inconsistent patchwork of state court rulings, which fail to establish a uniform approach to complex pre-embryo legal disputes, promises to generate more difficult decisions for judges as the number of people relying on egg freezing and IVF continues to grow.

A Massachusetts doctor and a group of public health trade associations want the federal government to break up a key vaccine committee tasked with nationwide vaccine policy, arguing that the panel has been tainted with anti-vaccine sentiment. www.law360.com/artic...

New: A Mass. doctor and a group of health trade associations want the federal government to break up a key vaccine committee tasked with nationwide vaccine policy, arguing in an amended lawsuit Thursday that the panel has been tainted with anti-vaccine sentiment. www.law360.com/healthcare-a...

A First Circuit panel seemed poised to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health.

New: A First Circuit panel seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health. www.law360.com/articles/240...

New analysis: A Minnesota investigation promises to answer a key question for doctors across the state, along with the hospitals and practices that employ them: When do changes to employment contracts amount to a new contract? www.law360.com/healthcare-a...

New: Colorado appellate judges have upheld a state trial court finding that a nonmarried couple must donate their cryogenically preserved pre-embryos that were created before the dissolution of their relationship. www.law360.com/healthcare-a...

Over the past few months, with help and guidance from @law360.bsky.social feature reporter Cara Bayles, I dug into the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's Medina decision, which empowers states to axe Planned Parenthood from state Medicaid programs. Below is more about the data gathering process.

Over the past few months, with help and guidance from @law360.bsky.social feature reporter Cara Bayles, I dug into the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's Medina decision, which empowers states to axe Planned Parenthood from state Medicaid programs. Below is more about the data gathering process.

New analysis: Since the Supreme Court's Medina Decision in June, four states have taken action to either remove Planned Parenthood from their public benefits or revisit litigation that could block its Medicaid reimbursements, even though Medicaid can't be used to pay for abortions.

New analysis: A new $100,000 fee for healthcare worker visas is sowing confusion in the medical community and raising concerns that the price tag could block thousands of doctors from practicing in underserved and rural communities. www.law360.com/healthcare-a...