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• December 7, 2018

  Judge Favors Spector Roseman To Lead Stock Drop Suit

  A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended Thursday that Spector Roseman & Kodroff PC be named lead counsel in an investor class action alleging misleading statements by health care administration company Mednax led to drops in its stock price, after choosing the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee in a contest to be lead plaintiff.

• December 7, 2018

  More State Issues The Blue Wave May Shape In 2019

  In the second installment of this three-part legislative preview, Rich Ehisen of State Net Capitol Journal examines a number of issues that should keep state lawmakers occupied next year.

• December 7, 2018

  Calif. School Vaccine Law Upheld As Panel Pans 'Hyperbole'

  California's law requiring children in day care and grade school to get vaccinated survived another in a long line of challenges when a state appeals court criticized the lawsuit’s "hyperbole" in a unanimous opinion upholding a lower court's decision to toss the case.

• December 7, 2018

  Why The High Court Will Hear Cochise Consultancy V. US

  The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear Cochise Consultancy v. United States ex rel. Hunt, which deepened the circuit split over how the False Claims Act’s statute of limitations applies in certain qui tam actions. The decision should bring sorely needed clarity, say Matthew Curley and Scott Gallisdorfer of Bass Berry & Sims PLC.

• December 7, 2018

  Vaccine Refusal Was Fireable Offense, 8th Circ. Rules

  Allina Health System did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act or Minnesota disability laws when it fired an employee who refused to get immunized against rubella because the job requirement protects potentially vulnerable patients, an Eighth Circuit panel ruled Friday, backing a lower court’s decision to throw out the case.

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