Steven Bixby, a South Carolina man scheduled to be executed, spoke out in court Friday during a status hearing at the Greenville County Courthouse.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. But the dispute has drawn wides

Dr. Robert Odze, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, in February 2023 filed a lawsuit against Stockman and Michigan Health Clinic in the Superior Court of Massachusetts’ Suffolk County. MHC is a corporation Stockman owns at 3925 Fortune Blvd. in Saginaw Township.

The Supreme Court will hear a dispute arising from an effort by anti-abortion Republican officials in South Carolina to prevent reproductive health care provider Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.

In the South Carolina case, a federal judge ruled in Planned Parenthood's favor, finding that Medicaid recipients may sue under the 1871 law and that the state's move to defund the organization violated the right of Edwards to freely choose a qualified medical provider.

South Carolina in 2018 moved to terminate a Planned Parenthood affiliate's participation in its state Medicaid program.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a case testing whether South Carolina was legally allowed to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. South Carolina restricted Planned

“By denying the petitions, the Supreme Court leaves in place the decisions of both the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the Circuit Court. These rulings are consistent with and uphold the conclusions of the lower courts, and the City hopes that this will conclude the litigation.”