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  • August 05, 2026

    Product Liability Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

    Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

  • August 05, 2026

    Unread Arbitration Emails Are Unenforceable, 9th Circ. Rules

    Arbitration agreements sent to workers aren't arbitration agreements assented to by workers, the Ninth Circuit held Wednesday, rejecting assertions from medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific that its arbitration-related emails — even if never read — sufficed to keep an ex-employee's proposed class action out of court.

  • August 05, 2026

    Drug Cos. Can't Trim Humana's Price-Fix Claims In Bellwether

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid by a number of generic drug manufacturers to dismiss two antitrust claims brought by health insurer Humana Inc. from an upcoming bellwether trial in long-running antitrust multidistrict litigation, finding they were brought within the statute of limitations.

  • August 05, 2026

    Stewart Says Patent System 'Crisis' Fueled USPTO Changes

    Coke Morgan Stewart, the deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office who left the agency last week, said in an interview with Law360 this week that new limits on patent challenges and other policy changes she helped lead were driven by a sense that the patent system was in "a pretty significant crisis."

  • August 05, 2026

    Kansas Judge Permanently Blocks Abortion Care Restrictions

    A Kansas state court has permanently enjoined a slew of restrictions on abortion care, including requirements that providers disclose patients' reasons for seeking an abortion to the state and inform patients about abortion pill "reversal" treatments the court said were "unlikely to be biologically plausible."

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  • Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
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