June 21, 2021 Update: AAPS files letter with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-06-21-2021.pdf December 17, 2020 Update: AAPS files Reply Brief with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-12-17-2020.pdf October 28, 2020 Update: AAPS files Appeal Brief with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – […]
Uninsured and other self-pay patients are facing increasing difficulty filling legitimate prescriptions for medically-appropriate pain medications in part due to one-size-fits all rules being imposed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. As Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., submitted as President of AAPS in comments to HHS in March 2019: “[T]oo often the unintended consequences created by […]
April 2021 update: AAPS reply brief filed with 7th Circuit: https://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-4-29-2021.pdf March 2021 update: AAPS files brief with 7th Circuit: https://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-3-9-2021.pdf ——————————————– October 2020 update: AAPS files appeal with 7th Circuit: http://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-10-21-2020.pdf ——————————————– November 2019 update: A status hearing was held on November 4, 2019. The judge indicated the potential for a decision to be […]
On Monday the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on its lawsuit to end governmental interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The Respondents include the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human […]
This week the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons submitted additional evidence to a federal court for why interference with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) should end by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), in AAPS v. FDA, No. 1:20-cv-00493-RJJ-SJB (W.D. Mich.). “As confirmed by another recent study of […]
Today the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its motion for a preliminary injunction to compel release to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), in AAPS v. HHS, No. 1:20-cv-00493-RJJ-SJB (W.D. Mich.). Nearly 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were […]
After Blue Cross of California indicated that it would cover needed care for a patient enrolled in a plan it administered, the insurer refused to pay the patient’s neurosurgeon. This case is now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and on August 18, 2019, AAPS submitted an amicus brief […]
On June 9, 2019 AAPS filed an Amicus Letter with the Texas Court of Appeals in support of Dr. Robert Van Boven’s lawsuit seeking to compel the Texas Medical Board to remove false and misleading reports it made to the National Practitioner Data Bank. The letter reads in part: The Texas Medical Board (TMB) refuses […]
“It is time to mercifully disconnect the legal life support for ACA. Its contrived justification – the taxation power of the United States – can no longer sustain it,” AAPS and CCHF state in their Amicus Brief filed today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of an affirmation […]
Pennsylvania physician Terrence Babb, MD has been in a longstanding battle against the powerful Geisinger Health System. Wrongly terminated after raising concerns about patient safety in the hospital, Dr. Babb has won several victories in the courts, including a jury verdict in his favor. But the health system is pulling out all the legal stops in an attempt to avoid an embarrassing loss. […]