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Latest News in Life Sciences
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March 27, 2026
Elizabeth Holmes Gets 11-Year Prison Sentence Cut By A Year
A California federal judge has shaved off a year from convicted ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year and three-month prison sentence for securities fraud due to recent sentencing guideline amendments, reducing her time behind bars by one year, instead of the two years she requested, amid objections by prosecutors.
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March 27, 2026
Eli Lilly Keeps Most Of Weight Loss Drug Copy Suit Alive
A California federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit accusing a pair of telehealth companies of making copies of Eli Lilly's obesity and type 2 diabetes drugs but agreed to trim the case.
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March 27, 2026
Del. Justices Won't Revive Hedge Fund Insider Trading Case
The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a ruling Friday in favor of hedge fund Armistice Capital, backing the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the firm of insider trading on information it had obtained in its position as a minority stakeholder of a pharmaceutical company.
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March 27, 2026
Hospital System Beats Most Of REIT's $50M Floodwall Suit
A New York federal judge on Friday mostly tossed a real estate investment trust's $50 million suit against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. and the NYC Economic Development Corp. over the design of a proposed floodwall for a downtown Manhattan life sciences campus project.
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March 27, 2026
Nobel Prize Winners Again Lose Patent Fight Over CRISPR
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled against a pair of Nobel Prize-winning scientists in a patent dispute over who was the first to invent key aspects of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, siding again with a rival team from the Broad Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Drug and medical device lobbying
- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Drug and medical device recalls
- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Patent disputes, including
- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
Readership
- Life sciences lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals