LOS ANGELES, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a closely watched UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage fraud case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon decide whether United—the nation’s largest for-profit Medicare Advantage provider—can continue to evade liability under a controversial and sweeping “preemption” defense. At issue is a national class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Case No. 8:23-cv-02303), Estate of Bibi Ahmad v. UnitedHealth Group In ...

Washington, DC, Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The New Civil Liberties Alliance is appealing the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island’s July decision in Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce that upheld a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rule requiring Atlantic herring fishermen to pay for at-sea government monitors on their boats. Upon remand from the Supreme Court’s landmark Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless decision, the district court failed to heed the Co ...