Health care policy experts are keeping close tabs on the courts in 2024. Judges are poised to weigh in on health policies — new ones, like Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices, and old ones, like the Affordable Care Act's insurance rules.

(Subscription required) A 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals en banc panel is reconsidering a March ruling by a three-judge panel that ordered U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee, an appointee of President Barack Obama, to consider subsequent legislation and a ballot initiative in Uber’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

The Supreme Court yesterday denied a pro per’s habeas corpus petition in In re Diaz. The denial was by a bare majority, however. Three justices — Goodwin Liu, Joshua Groban, and Kelli Evans — recorded votes to issue an order to show cause.

Even though “[i]mplied easements are not favored in the law,” the court holds that an easement must be recognized when there is “clear evidence” of a prior intent to allow a particular use, even when “the nature of the easement effectively precludes the property owners from making most practical uses of the easement area.”