Attorneys for employee benefit plan participants who sued to change how United Behavioral Health processed claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment asked a California federal court for up to $33 million in fees and expenses for their work on the "groundbreaking" case.
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Attys Want Up To $33M In Long-Running UBH Benefits Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Attorneys for employee benefit plan participants who sued to change how United Behavioral Health processed claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment asked a California federal court for up to $33 million in fees and expenses for their work on the "groundbreaking" case.

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FTC Pulls OptumRx Insulin Price Case To Review Final Deal

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission's third and final settlement resolving an in-house case accusing pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes is in sight after the agency on Friday pulled from adjudication its allegations against UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s OptumRx to review a deal struck with staffers.

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Ala. Judge Shopping Case Dismissed, But Docs Sealed For Year

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal judge indicated in a brief order Friday that an indictment has been dismissed against an attorney in a judge shopping case, but said the motion related to the dismissal will be kept under seal for a year.

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Barnes & Thornburg Profit-Share Admin Wants Legal Bills Paid

By James Boyle

A company that oversaw recordkeeping duties of Barnes & Thornburg LLP's profit-sharing plan says in a complaint in Pennsylvania state court it is owed legal fees over a previous suit filed by a former firm partner.

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Chancery Cuts Claim Over FNF Chair's $50M Equity Award

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has narrowed a stockholder derivative lawsuit challenging compensation decisions at Fidelity National Financial Inc., dismissing claims tied to a $50 million equity award for Chairman William P. Foley while allowing claims over directors' self-approved compensation packages to move forward.

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LITIGATION

Wells Fargo, Ocwen Lose 2nd Circ. Rehearing In ERISA Suit

By Sydney Price

The Second Circuit rejected a request for rehearing by Wells Fargo and Ocwen, which asked the court to reconsider its decision to revive a federal benefits lawsuit accusing them of mishandling home loans tied to union employee pension fund investments.

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Judge Gives First OK To $69M ChemoCentryx Deal

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has given the first green light to a $69 million settlement reached between investors and ChemoCentryx, resolving claims that the California-based pharmaceutical company overstated the efficacy of its newly developed treatment for autoimmune disease ANCA vasculitis.

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Mich. Panel Upholds Stock Redemption Order

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan state appeals court has affirmed a trial court decision that resolved a decades-long shareholder dispute between a real estate development firm and its ex-CEO by ordering the company to buy out the former executive's original $25,000 investment plus 7% interest.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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Ex-Girardi Atty Hid Firm's Diversion Of Funds, State Bar Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A State Bar of California prosecutor argued Tuesday at a disciplinary trial that ex-Girardi Keese attorney Robert Finnerty hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from a family's $53 million settlement, while Finnerty's counsel countered he's being blamed for the actions of his former boss, convicted and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

By Alison Knezevich

A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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Ex-Judge Loses Bid To Undo ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Britain Eakin

Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan has failed in her attempt to use a Fourth Circuit decision to vacate her conviction for helping a defendant in her courtroom evade immigration agents, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday the decision involves fact patterns that differ from her case.

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Senate Rejects Bid To Block Fast-Track Immigration Appeals

By Courtney Bublé

A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.

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Blanche To Go Before Senate Panel July 15

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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Oral Arguments In Comey, James Appeal Set For September

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fourth Circuit has scheduled in-person oral arguments for the Trump administration's appeal of the dismissals of indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James for Sept. 15-18.

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Brazil Says Justice Is Immune From Trump Media's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Brazil asked Monday to intervene and dismiss a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, saying the suit cannot overcome immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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Abir Cohen

Ashby & Geddes

Barnes & Thornburg

Baughman Kroup

Berger Montague

Bernstein Litowitz

Boies Schiller

Bondurant Mixson

Butler Prather

Carmichael Ellis

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Dechert LLP

Demorest Law Firm

Foley Hoag

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Gimbel Reilly

Girardi & Keese

Gordon Rees

Gupta Wessler

Holland & Knight

Irell & Manella

Jones Day

Keller Rohrback

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Levi & Korsinsky

Levine Lee

Lightfoot Franklin

Lowell & Associates

M.D. Gibson & Bolen

Melton Espy

Munger Tolles

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Page Scrantom

Psych-Appeal Inc

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Rosing Pott

Rule Garza

Skadden Arps

Strang Bradley

Stris & Maher

Thompson Hine

Troutman

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Zuckerman Spaeder

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aetna Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

CVS Health Corp.

ChemoCentryx Inc.

Evernorth Health Services

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Fidelity National Financial Inc.

Ford Motor Co.

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Medco Health Solutions Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Ocwen Financial Corp.

Optum Inc.

PG&E Corp.

RELX PLC

State Bar of California

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The Cigna Group

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

Twitter Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

Zinc Health Services LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin