The Arizona Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Maricopa County Superior Court, holding that Arizonans will be able to cast their votes on Proposition 305, a citizen’s referendum on the Legislature’s controversial attempt to expand Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program, also known as school vouchers, at the November 2018 general election. The firm’s election law group, including Roopali Desai and Andy Gaona, worked with grassroots group Save Our Schools Arizona to preserve direct democracy in Arizona, ensuring that Proposition 305 will be included on the November 2018 ballot. Save Our Schools Arizona’s volunteers worked to collect more than 100,000 signatures in order to refer the law, and the Coppersmith Brockelman team successfully defended those petitions against a well-funded legal challenge. Coppersmith Brockelman has Arizona’s most comprehensive...

Kristen Rosati discussed changes in human subjects research regulation in a presentation at the American Health Lawyers Association’s (AHLA) Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions Conference in Washington, DC. With co-presenters Laura Odwazny of the HHS Office of General Counsel and Heather Pierce of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Kristen discussed changes to the Common Rule, substance abuse disorder regulations, and new NIH policies affecting medical research using human subjects.  The panel also discussed what’s ahead to implement the 21st Century Cures Act. Kristen is one of the nation’s leading HIPAA compliance attorneys, with deep experience in all things “Big Data,” including data sharing for research and clinical integration initiatives, biobanking, genomic privacy, data breaches, and health information exchange. She is a...