Abortion providers in Texas can sue state officials in federal court over the state's new abortion law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday, but it refused to block the law while such legal actions may be taken.
A Kentucky law requiring physicians to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions was upheld Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court case brought by hundreds of Fosamax patients against Merck & Co. seems to be going the drugmaker’s way, potentially upholding the popular preemption argument the pharma industry has used to fight product liability suits.
Monday was a good-news-bad-news day for Gilead Sciences at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the justices handing down multiple decisions about which appeals they would take up as they headed back to work after the holiday break.