Abortion access, false claims, telehealth, discrimination and patient inducements are among the health care issues with pending litigation in the court system.

A panel from Manatt Health gave a rundown on some of the “must watch” litigation transforming health care in 2023 during a recent webinar.

Abortion access

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization returned the decision to restrict or protect abortion to the states. Since then, several other court challenges also restricting abortion access have worked their way through the courts.

“It has been only 10 months since Dobbs came down but those have been a very busy 10 months and there has been lot of litigation,” said Ronald Blum, partner in Manatt Health’s litigation group. “What we’ve seen so far is aimed at limiting and restricting access to abortion.”

He cited three noteworthy cases:

1. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, in which a federal district court in Texas attempted to block the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion. The Supreme Court issued a stay in the order, keeping mifepristone available, until the Fifth Circuit court hands down an opinion on the merits of the suit.
2. Silva v. Noyola, in which a man brought a wrongful-death lawsuit in Galveston County, Texas, in March, claiming three women helped his now-ex-wife obtain abortion-inducing medication to conceal her pregnancy from him.
3. Gomez v. Braid, in...

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