Written by Firm | Nov 11, 2015 | Updates
Robbins Firm attorneys recently assisted Eastside Medical Center in Gwinnett County in reopening its emergency department at the South Campus without Certificate of Need (“CON”) review. The South Campus will continue to provide inpatient psychiatric and rehabilitation services, and it will continue to operate under the same license as Eastside Medical […]
Written by Ellen Eldridge - Reporter Newspapers | Jul 10, 2015 | News
The Manget Way debate is moving through the courts. When neighbors discovered last year that a company called the Center for Discovery had purchased a house on Manget Way and planned to use it as a place to treat teenage girls with eating disorders, their reaction was “apoplectic at best,” […]
Written by Firm | Oct 1, 2014 | Updates
Last month, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that strict compliance with pre-suit requirements is necessary in order to bring a tort claim against the State. In Bd. of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga. v. Myers, the Court held that a plaintiff must “strictly comply” with the Georgia […]
Written by Firm | Feb 5, 2014 | News
At issue: Whether Plaintiffs have right to file lawsuit in funding dispute or must work through state’s administrative process An appellate battle is lining up between defense counsel for the Georgia government and plaintiffs lawyers who claim that the state has illegally reduced by millions of dollars in funds for […]
Written by Firm | Jan 6, 2013 | News
A federal judge has halted enforcement of a Georgia law requiring employer-funded health benefit plans to pay employee claims in as little as 15 days. U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. of the Northern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction Dec. 31 enjoining amendments to the state’s 14-year-old “prompt […]
Written by Firm | Jun 29, 2012 | News
Governor Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens are calling on Congress to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care law after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt Georgia and other opposing states a blow by upholding the individual mandate and other provisions of the law.
Written by David Oedel and Josh Belinfante | Feb 9, 2011 | Press
The day after U.S. District Judge Vinson ruled the individual mandate of the new healthcare reform law to be unconstitutional, the New York Times in its lead editorial switched gears. Though many commentators had previously characterized the constitutional challenge as bordering on frivolous, the Times on Feb. 1, 2011 conceded that the basic challenge to the individual mandate is based on “principled arguments” that “will likely be decided by the Supreme Court.”
