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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on Oct. 23 said Indiana could not enforce a 2011 state law that barred abortion providers – including Planned Parenthood – from receiving any state or federal funds. It would have stripped all Medicaid funding from any health care provider that provides abortion services, among many others. The appellate court barred enforcement of the law, based on Planned Parenthood’s objection that the state defunding law violates a federal Medicaid law that …

Considering Divorce? Explore Your Options No two marriages are the same, nor are any two divorces. If you’re contemplating divorce, you have several options about how to proceed, including do-it-yourself divorce, mediation, collaborative divorce and litigation. Find Out More…      Access to Abortion Services Blocked or Limited by State Laws A federal judge has indefinitely extended his injunction of a new Mississippi abortion law. The pending rule requires abortion clinic physicians to be board-certified OB-GYNs and to have patient-admitting …

A federal judge has indefinitely extended his injunction of a new Mississippi law that requires abortion clinic physicians to be board-certified OB-GYNs and to have patient-admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The law was scheduled to go into effect on July 1, and would have closed the state’s only abortion clinic, but U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III blocked it while he considered its constitutionality. The controversial Mississippi law is just one of the latest measures in an ongoing …

When the Supreme Court upheld the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week, the rhetoric started flying fast and furious. In lieu of debating the actual merits and policy of the health care law, its opponents have resorted to gross hyperbole and outright lies, calling the bill a “government takeover of health care” and the “largest tax increase in the history of the world” that will add “trillions to our deficits” and mean that “up to 20 million …

Here are several items we thought you’d find interesting. $322 million asbestos award tossed out by Mississippi court.  The largest judgment ever awarded to a single plaintiff for asbestos injuries was set aside because of an apparent conflict of interest by the trial judge. Last May a jury awarded $322 million to a Mississippi man, Thomas Brown, who developed asbestosis after working on drilling rigs in the 1980s. Asbestosis is a lung disease caused by exposure to asbestos. It produces …