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On August 17, 2020, just one day before a Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) rule retracting discrimination protections for transgender people and pregnant women (“2020 Rule”)[1] was set to go into effect, Judge Frederic Block of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York... READ MORE

On June 14, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published in the Federal Register a proposal to revise certain civil rights anti-discrimination regulations implementing and enforcing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) (“Section 1557 Rule”) that HHS believes are inconsistent with pre-existing civil rights statutes and likely unlawful... READ MORE

As we reported in a previous article, the Third Circuit recently decided in Doe v. Mercy[1] that: 1) the medical residency program of the facility being sued in that case was an “educational program or activity” under Title IX; and 2) the medical resident had standing to sue under Title IX even though the... READ MORE