2959 ABA Journal Health Law articles.
Nikolas Colton Evans always wanted three sons. So, when he died after being punched and falling in a March 27 street assault in Austin, Texas, his mother, Marissa Evans, decided…
Apr 8, 2009 4:58 PM CDT
Decades ago, the groundbreaking Tarasoff decision made the tort law casebooks after the California Supreme Court found that a treating psychotherapist had a duty to warn a third party of…
Apr 7, 2009 8:49 PM CDT
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled in a novel case that a sperm bank may be sued under product liability laws for failing to detect that a sperm donor…
Apr 2, 2009 2:58 PM CDT
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating today in the second trial against disbarred Kentucky lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in…
Apr 2, 2009 2:40 PM CDT
A lawyer who won a rare insanity acquittal from a Massachusetts jury last week for a client charged with the first-degree murder of his own mother has blasted the district…
Mar 30, 2009 6:51 PM CDT
A Kansas doctor known for being one of a very few in the U.S. willing to perform late-term abortions has been acquitted of charges that did so against state law.
…Mar 30, 2009 4:28 PM CDT
New York City-based litigator and legal reform activist Philip K. Howard has been waging a battle to reshape the U.S. legal system for 15 years.…
Mar 24, 2009 6:16 PM CDT
A federal regulatory agency overstepped its bounds in limiting access to the so-called “Plan B” emergency contraceptive, a federal judge has ruled.
In setting special requirements for the controversial contraceptive,…
Mar 23, 2009 8:13 PM CDT
A law firm that represents patients who took the antipsychotic drug Seroquel has revealed documents about a hush-hush study showing patients who took the medicine had a risk of weight…
Mar 18, 2009 6:19 PM CDT
As one member called a Louisiana doctor who at one point was accused of criminally euthanizing patients in her care a hero, a panel today recommended that the state should…
Mar 17, 2009 9:06 PM CDT
A former client of Hogan & Hartson has sued the law firm for malpractice, claiming that it aided a competitor.
At issue in the dispute is two competing brands of…
Mar 14, 2009 1:23 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that pharmaceutical companies aren’t protected from lawsuits because their warning labels are approved by the federal government.
The court ruled in a 6-3 decision…
Mar 4, 2009 3:50 PM CST
Scores of death investigations may be reopened as Georgia authorities probe an Atlanta area group that helped others commit suicide with helium gas.
A court document says the group Final…
Feb 27, 2009 6:51 PM CST
An unemployed woman who along with her own mother, is already raising six children in a three-bedroom Whittier, Calif., home in pre-foreclosure, is worried that she may not be allowed…
Feb 25, 2009 10:04 PM CST
A new contestant weighed in today in a controversial pregnancy that has ignited international legal debate.
Saying that he had donated his sperm, at Nadya Suleman’s request, during the course…
Feb 23, 2009 9:30 PM CST
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