‘Public Health Emergency’ Definition Suit Ended by Federal Court

Texas and Oklahoma can’t sue the US to partially delete a rule defining “public health emergency” because they didn’t show they were likely to be injured by the definition in the future, a federal court said.

The possibility that the US Department of Health and Human Services might use one of three challenged definitions to declare a public health emergency in which the states would be required to implement US quarantine procedures wasn’t a concrete present or future injury, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Aug. 18.

In 2016, HHS proposed a rule that set ...