Georgia sues Biden administration to extend Medicaid program with work requirement

Georgia sues Biden administration to extend Medicaid program with work requirement

ATLANTA — Georgia sued the Biden administration Friday to try to keep the state’s new health plan for low-income residents, which is the only Medicaid program in the country with a work requirement, running until 2028. Georgia Pathways launched in July and is set to expire at the end of September 2025. The suit filed … Read more

After Washington state lawsuit, Providence health system erases or refunds $158M in medical bills

After Washington state lawsuit, Providence health system erases or refunds 8M in medical bills

SEATTLE — Providence health care system is refunding nearly $21 million in medical bills paid by low-income residents of Washington — and it’s erasing $137 million more in outstanding debt for tens of thousands of others — to settle the state’s allegations that it overcharged those patients and then used aggressive collection tactics when they … Read more

Disney appeals dismissal of free speech lawsuit as DeSantis says company should ‘move on’

Disney appeals dismissal of free speech lawsuit as DeSantis says company should ‘move on’

ORLANDO, Fla. — Disney on Thursday appealed a judge’s dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ retaliatory takeover of Walt Disney World’s governing district, as the Florida governor separately called any appeal “a mistake.” “They should move on,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville a day … Read more

NCAA spent years fighting losing battles and left itself helpless to defend legal challenges

NCAA spent years fighting losing battles and left itself helpless to defend legal challenges

Years of fighting losing battles have left the NCAA almost helpless to defend itself. The legal pile-on against the largest governing body for college sports in the Unites States continued Wednesday when attorneys general from Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit that seeks to throw out the few rules the NCAA has to regulate … Read more

Federal judge dismisses Disney’s free speech lawsuit against DeSantis

Federal judge dismisses Disney’s free speech lawsuit against DeSantis

ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed Disney’s free speech lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, leaving the company’s remaining hopes of regaining control of the district that governs Walt Disney World to a separate state court challenge. U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee said in his decision that Disney lacked standing … Read more

QAnon-linked legal fund spent $400,000 defending Trump allies, filing shows

QAnon-linked legal fund spent 0,000 defending Trump allies, filing shows

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd during a campaign rally on September 25, 2023 in Summerville, South Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images A fund intended to pay the legal bills of former president Donald Trump’s allies backed chiefly by reported QAnon supporters has spent nearly $400,000, the bulk of which went … Read more

Trump judge conflict denied by E. Jean Carroll lawyer

Trump judge conflict denied by E. Jean Carroll lawyer

Attorney Roberta Kaplan delivers her closing argument during E. Jean Carroll’s second civil trial as Carroll accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, U.S., January 26, 2024, in this courtroom sketch.  Jane Rosenberg | Reuters E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer on Tuesday rebutted a … Read more

New York sues Citibank for alleged failure to reimburse fraud victims

New York sues Citibank for alleged failure to reimburse fraud victims

A Citibank branch in the central business district of Singapore on Feb. 12, 2018. Ore Huiying | Bloomberg | Getty Images New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday sued Citibank for allegedly failing to protect and reimburse victims of electronic fraud. The suit claims that Citi does not have strong protections in place to … Read more

Transgender veterans sue to have gender-affirming surgery covered by Department of Veteran Affairs

Transgender veterans sue to have gender-affirming surgery covered by Department of Veteran Affairs

A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries. The lawsuit from the Transgender American Veterans Association seeks to compel the VA to codify in its regulations verbal assurances the department has made that it would begin providing those … Read more

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after ex-employee files sex abuse suit

Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from WWE parent company after ex-employee files sex abuse suit

STAMFORD, Conn. — Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigned Friday from WWE’s parent company t he day after a former employee filed a federal lawsuit accusing him and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct, including offering her to a star wrestler for sex. McMahon stepped down from the his position as executive chairman of the … Read more