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USA - April 17 2013
In Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk, the Unites States Supreme Court held that a collective action under the FLSA was properly dismissed for lack…
USA - March 29 2013
Wage-hour lawsuits filed under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) represent one of the fastest growing and most problematic areas of…
USA - January 24 2013
A unanimous Supreme Court has issued its opinion in Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center, No. 11-1231 (Jan. 22, 2013), rejecting a challenge by…
USA - December 12 2012
In a long-awaited decision, on December 3, 2012, a divided panel (2–1) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the conviction of Alfred Caronia, a former pharmaceutical sales representative for Jazz Pharmaceuticals whom a federal district court jury found guilty of conspiring to introduce a "misbranded" drug into interstate commerce in violation of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA").
USA - September 6 2012
Most reasonably-well-informed citizens, and certainly everyone concerned with health care, is well aware that the Supreme Court concluded its most-recent term with the Chief Justice joining the Court’s so called “liberal” wing in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sibelius, in upholding essentially all of the Obama Administration’s Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), including its most controversial provision – the “individual mandate” -- not under the Commerce Clause, as its proponents argued, but under the tax power.
