Case Name: Managed Pharmacy Care v. Sebelius

Court: U.S. Ct. App. 9th Cir.  Docket: Nos. 12-55067 and 12-55332

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Case Issue: Does state's 10 percent rate cut to Medicaid providers violate Medicaid statute requirement to ensure access to care?

Case Name: Mass. v. Life Care Centers of Am., Inc.

Court: Mass. Supreme Judicial Ct.  Docket: No. AJC-10546

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Case Result: Court held that corporate nursing facility chain could not be convicted for the death of a resident under theory of "collective knowledge."

Case Name: Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court    Docket: 10-1150

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Case Result: Court held invalid a patent as it only applied a law of nature including a method for determining the right dosage level of a specific class of drugs to give to a patient.

Case Name: McCall v. U.S.

Court: Fla. Supreme Court    Docket: 11-1148

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Case Issue: Does a cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases violate the Florida Constitution's right of access to court provision?

Case Name: Miller v. Johnson

Court: Kan. Supreme Ct.    Docket: 08-99818-AS

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Case Result: Caps on non-economic damages in personal injury cases are permissable but legislature urged to consider increasing rates.

Case Name: Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Business v. Sebelius

Court: U.S. Supreme Court    Docket: 11-393, 11-400

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Case Result: The minimum coverage provision, which requires most Americans to purchase minimum health insurance coverage is constitutional under Congress's taxing powers.The Medicaid expansion provision, which requires states to greatly expand Medicaid eligibility to millions of low-income people, is constitutional under Congress's spending clause powers as long as the federal government does not withdraw a state's existing Medicaid funds if the state refuses to accept the ACA's expansion provision.

Case Name: Oster v. Wagner

Court: U.S. Ct. App. 9th Cir.    Docket: 09-17581

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Case Issue: Does state law reducing in home Medicaid services violate the Supremacy Clause?

Case Name: Pitts v. Greenstein

Court: U.S. Dist. Ct. MD La.    Docket: 3:10-cv-00635

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Case Issue: Do state cuts to Medicaid Long Term - Personal Care Services program put recipients at risk of institutionalization and therefore constitute discrimination based on disability in violation of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?