MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER FOR JUDGMENT Helen C. Adams , U.S. Magistrate Judge . Plaintiffs Unity Healthcare and Lakes Regional Healthcare, both Iowa hospitals, challenge decisions of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary") denying them payment of a specific Medicare payment known as the volume-decrease adjustment or "VDA." 2 The facts are undisputed and the plaintiffs do not challenge the statutes, regulations or interpretive guides under which...
ORDER ROBERT W. PRATT , U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE . Petitioner Rosendo Enriquez, now represented by counsel, was an inmate of the Iowa Department of Corrections serving a sentence on convictions for drug and firearm offenses in Muscatine County, Iowa. State v. Enriquez, No. 09-1460, 2011 WL 1584114, at *1 (Iowa Ct. App. Apr. 27, 2011). He is now on parole, 1 and his tentative discharge date is December 3, 2033. Iowa Dep't of Corr., Offender Information, https://doc.iowa.gov/offender/view/...
ORDER ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT STEPHANIE M. ROSE , JUDGE . Before the Court is Defendant BNSF Railway Company's ("BNSF") Motion for Summary Judgment. [ECF No. 15]. In this action, Plaintiff Gayle Andrews seeks recovery against BNSF, her former employer, under the Federal Employers' Liability Act ("FELA"), 45 U.S.C. 51 et seq., and the Federal Safety Appliance Act ("FSAA"), 49 U.S.C. 20301 et seq., for injuries she allegedly sustained during her employment. BNSF...
