physician-opinion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-5855 Jeremiah Kyle Blaber v. Oregon Oregon 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process individual-standard medical-appropriateness medical-coercion mental-health mental-health-standard physician-opinion trial-fitness Can the court medicate a defendant against the opinion of the defendant's treating physician under a 'Sell order' for the sole purpose of restoring a …
20-371 Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be 'false' under the False-Claims-Act based solely on a reas…