United States Law Week: Index-Summary

HAZARDOUS WASTE

– Lead munitions not hazardous waste, shooting range granted summary judgment on RCRA claims (2d Cir.), 1070

HEALTH CARE

– Abortion

– Drugs

– Free care, Me. law requiring hospitals to provide to indigents not violation of Takings Clause (1st Cir.), 1085
– Health savings accounts, IRS rules issued, In Brief, 2145
– Insurance

See HEALTH INSURANCE

– Medical devices

See MEDICAL DEVICES

– Medical records

See MEDICAL RECORDS

– Medicare and Medicaid

See MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

– Mental health

See MENTAL HEALTH

– Nursing home patient treatment, federal statute creates private right of action under §1983 (3d Cir.), 1019
– Nursing student, expulsion for inappropriate blog content (W.D. Ky.), In Brief, 1160
– Reform

– – Excise tax on high-value insurance plans, Obama supports, 2148
– – House bill

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3200

– – Individual mandate in proposed bills, opponents question legality of requiring citizens to buy health insurance, 2195
– – Malpractice, states to receive grants under Obama proposal, 2147
– – Senate Finance Comm. bipartisan group's efforts, Baucus (D-Mont) discusses, 2146; Baucus releases proposed bill, 2157; for further action, see LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 1796

– Rehabilitation Act, deaf patient and family members' claim against hospital for failure to provide interpreter may proceed (2d Cir.), 1203

HEALTH INSURANCE

– Hospital seeking payment, state law claims against employee benefit plan not preempted by ERISA (9th Cir.), 1166
– Medicare and Medicaid

See MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

– Reform

See HEALTH CARE

– Retirees

– – ERISA, fiduciary duty of employer (3d Cir.), In Brief, 1176
– – Free life time vested benefits, employer may not require retirees to share costs (6th Cir.), 1053

– Retroactive reinstatement of employer's coverage upheld, equitable remedy permitted under ERISA (10th Cir.), 1081
– Taxation

– – Employee benefits, Obama wary of proposal to tax, In Brief, 2016
– – Excise tax on high-value plans, Obama supports, 2148
– – Health savings accounts, IRS rules issued, In Brief, 2145

HIGHER EDUCATION

See generally SCHOOLS

HIGHWAYS

See ROADS

HIV

See AIDS AND HIV

HOMELAND SECURITY

See TERRORISM

HOMOSEXUALITY

See SEXUAL ORIENTATION

HOUSING

See also LANDLORDS AND TENANTS
– Fair Housing Act, existing homeowners and renters may proceed on claims of racial bias in provision of municipal services (9th Cir.), 1217
– Foreclosures, state may require in-state presence by lawyer/trustee (10th Cir.), 1016
– Mortgages

See MORTGAGES

HURRICANES

See NATURAL DISASTERS