United States: Government Measures

On April 10, a group of Democratic state attorneys general, along with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, sued the Trump Administration over access to previously-approved funding to address...

In August 2021, the U.S. Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The policy was later rescinded in January 2023, but not before thousands of service members were separated...

This order makes reinstatement available to all members of the military who were discharged solely for refusing to comply the Department of Defense's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as administered on August 24, 2021, and revoked January 10, 2023.

On October 19, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance document titled Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19...

On Friday, October 6, 2023, DEA announced a second extension of telemedicine flexibilities concerning the prescribing of controlled substances, which were originally set to expire after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency.

On October 10, 2023, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"), in concert with the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), published...

The Supreme Court of Virginia recently voided the new zoning ordinance approved by Fairfax County via electronic meetings in 2021.

Mintz Member Karen Lovitch, Chair of the firm's Health Law Practice and Co-Chair of the Health Care Enforcement Defense Practice, was interviewed for an article...

On November 4, 2021, the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interim final rule...