SCOTUS strikes down Texas abortion law requiring nearby admitting privileges and imposing ASC requirements

By Yvonne Puig (US) and Eric Hoffman (US) on June 27, 2016 Posted in Enforcement

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. … Continue reading

Obamacare saved by Supreme Court

By Jonathan S. Franklin (US) on June 25, 2015 Posted in Regulatory

In a 6-3 decision credited with saving Obamacare, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the premium subsidies offered to qualifying enrollees of insurance plans offered on federal exchanges, which help more than 6 million Americans pay for their health plans under Obamacare, are legal. The Court declined to apply Chevron [i] deference to an IRS … Continue reading

SCOTUS: FCA statute of limitations not tolled by war; first-to-file bar does not operate in perpetuity

By Carol Poindexter (US) on May 27, 2015 Posted in Enforcement

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling addressing two major False Claims Act (FCA) interpretive issues. First, the Court held that the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act’s (WSLA) tolling of the statutes of limitations on claims involving fraud against the government during wartime does not apply to civil fraud cases. Second, the … Continue reading