In an 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court unanimously held that ERISA’s exemption of “church plans” from its regulation of employee benefit plans extends to church-affiliated hospitals even if an actual church did not establish the plan.
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A split DC Circuit panel affirmed a U.S. District Court’s permanent injunction against the US$54 billion merger between Anthem and Cigna, holding the district court did not abuse its discretion in enjoining the merger based on Anthem’s failure to show
The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s planned rate reductions for Medicaid home health services for severely disabled children, holding that a temporary injunction issued by a trial court enjoining the rate cuts from taking effect remains binding pending the issuance of a mandate by the Texas Third Court of Appeals reversing the trial court decision or further review by the Texas Supreme Court.
In one of the most closely watched cases of this term, a divided Supreme Court struck down Texas’s abortion law, finding that it constituted an undue burden on a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.
Continuing the Federal Trade Commission’s string of wins in hospital merger cases, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an FTC decision ordering the largest hospital provider in the Toledo, Ohio area to divest