A federal court has blocked California from enforcing a state law that allows regulators to punish physicians for spreading misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, according to Bloomberg Law and the San Francisco Chronicle.

From an HCA hospital suing to halt a rival hospital's expansion to Mass General Brigham being hit with a patent infringement suit, here are seven recent lawsuits and settlements involving hospitals that Becker's has reported since Jan. 13:  

Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, Mont., has reached a $4.3 million settlement with patients and employees whose personal and protected health information was likely accessed during a cyberattack, SC Media reported Jan. 25.

Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., filed a lawsuit Jan. 10 to stop Hendersonville, N.C.-based Pardee Hospital from expanding its cardiac catheterization services, according to a Jan. 24 report in the Asheville Citizen Times.

A Utah plastic surgeon and three others allegedly threw away at least $28,000 worth of COVID-19 vaccines, injected minors with saline shots and distributed hundreds of fake vaccination cards, according to the Justice Department. 

Twenty-five people have been charged for their alleged participation in a coordinated scheme to sell aspiring nurses thousands of fake nursing degree documents, the Justice Department said Jan. 25.

Syracuse, N.Y.-based St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center and Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health System dodged a class action lawsuit alleging they failed to properly pay employees for overtime hours, according to court documents.

Robert Hadden, former New York City gynecologist, was convicted of four counts of enticing his former patients into the state to engage in illegal sexual activity, The New York Times reported Jan. 24.

Two medical equipment company and pharmacy owners were indicted as part of a $14.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. 

Ammon Bundy, a former candidate for Idaho governor and founder of the activist People's Rights Network, pleaded guilty Jan. 23 to trespassing outside St. Luke's Meridian (Idaho) Medical Center, according to Idaho Reports.