class action

The hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard approved a continuance until Dec. 13 because the state’s lead lawyer was diagnosed this weekend with pneumonia.

More than 670,000 people in Florida were dropped from the program after the end of a federal public health emergency.

In issuing the order, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruled that the “case will turn almost entirely on common issues” with common answers.

The lawsuit challenges a new law that banned doctors from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers to children.

It's one of several lawsuits seeking refunds of money that students paid for services that were not provided because of the pandemic.

A judge grants a request to handle the case as a class action. The claimants say the state stops providing incontinence supplies to Medicaid beneficiaries older than 21.

A disability rights organization has filed suit against the Department of Children and Families, saying it holds adult patients in psychiatric hospitals…