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Category: Legal Matters

AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine

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 – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-10-28-2020.pdf September 1, 2020 Update: AAPS Reply in Support of Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-9-1-2020.pdf August […]

AAPS Tells Court to Stop Federal Discrimination Against Self Pay Patients’ Access to Pain Medication

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 […]

AAPS Takes MOC to Court

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 issued in January 2020. ——————————————– August 2019 update: AAPS vs. ABMS has been reassigned to the Honorable Martha M. Pacold. ——————————————– April […]

Hydroxychloroquine Case Is Filed in the Sixth Circuit by AAPS

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 […]

Preliminary Injunction Sought to Release Hydroxychloroquine to the Public

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 […]

AAPS Asks Court to Rule in Favor of Neurosurgeon Denied Payment by Blue Cross

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 […]

TMB Should Remove False and Misleading NPDB Reports, AAPS Tells Court

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 […]

AAPS Stands Up for Physician Victim of Sham Peer Review

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. […]

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