Courts

It's been two months since the state dropped a suit against the federal government that was supposedly delaying the changes that would open health coverage to more than 42,000 children. Why? That's a mystery.

The health department notified the AIDS Healthcare Foundation that it would not renew five of its contracts to test and treat people with HIV and stop the spread of the sexually transmitted infections.

The Florida resolution comes as Bayer seeks approval of a $7.25 billion class settlement in Missouri and weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that could determine whether the company can be shielded from failure-to-warn lawsuits.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said the patient was discharged Oct. 6 but refused to vacate her room for five months, so the hospital requested an injunction to force her out.

Court-ordered medical procedures are just one of the ways pregnant patients’ rights are restricted. The effort is rooted in the concept of fetal personhood — that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.

A Florida woman says her own birth plan was overridden when a hospital sought legal intervention. The case was argued before a judge over Zoom – while she was in labor.

A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found the ban on cultivated meats doesn’t conflict with existing federal laws regulating poultry that is raised for human consumption.

The attorney denies allegations of impropriety, but they could reshape a turbulent next phase of the long-running case arising from Maya Kowalski's treatment at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

The judge ordered Leapfrog to remove grades for five hospitals in the Palm Beach Health Network, which filed a lawsuit alleging misleading practices under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.

The AHF wants a court to resume proceedings in a legal challenge to the DeSantis administration’s move to reduce enrollment eligibility in a program that helps people purchase medications.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation calls the bill a "ramsom note" after it sued the health department for failing to comply with a public records request related to altering ADAP.

A new Florida law making it harder to get citizen-led amendments on the ballot faces a federal court challenge. The trial began Monday. Here’s what’s at stake.