DOJ Backs Private Claims Against NewYork-Presbyterian

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice has thrown its support behind claims from union benefit funds in New York federal court that mirror the government's own case accusing NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital of blocking cheaper insurance plans.

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Groups Tell 4th Circ. Not To Let Sandoz 'Relitigate' Enbrel

By Bryan Koenig

Pharmaceutical groups and the Washington Legal Foundation backed Amgen in amicus briefs Monday urging the Fourth Circuit not to revive Sandoz's antitrust claims, arguing that if Sandoz wanted to litigate blocked biosimilar competition to Enbrel, it needed to do so when Amgen sued it for patent infringement.

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Align's Invisalign Patents Are Infringed But Invalid, Jury Finds

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's antitrust claims against Align.

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Regeneron Ducks Amgen's Eylea Antitrust Counterclaims

By Bryan Koenig

A West Virginia federal judge dismissed key counterclaims and defenses Tuesday that Amgen had raised against Regeneron's patent infringement lawsuit targeting bids by multiple would-be rivals to produce biosimilar versions of eye medication Eylea, preserving only arguments that Regeneron waited too long to pursue the patent.

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Food Deal Rivals Battle In Chancery Over Competition Claims

By Jarek Rutz

Lawyers for Global Market Foods LLC urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to block the former owner of a food distribution business from competing after selling the company for $58 million, while the sellers argued the buyer is improperly trying to rewrite the parties' contracts and expand negotiated noncompete restrictions.

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Microsoft Can't Stop £140M Copyright Claim Over CAT Remit

By Ronan Barnard

Microsoft failed on Tuesday to block a reseller's £140 million ($188 million) claim over alleged anticompetitive restrictions in the secondary software market, as an appeals court ruled that an antitrust tribunal could decide the copyright issues underpinning the dispute.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Dental Patent Claims In Align Feud

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's finding that they were invalid.

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6th Circ. Says MillerKnoll Owns Rights To Iconic Lamp Design

By Hailey Konnath

The Sixth Circuit Tuesday refused to disturb a lower court's decision awarding intellectual property rights for late designer George Nelson's iconic bubble lamp to furniture company MillerKnoll, ruling that a 2006 royalty agreement authorized the company to use and own those rights.

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Calif. Judge Asks About Standing In Google Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.

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Meta Tries To Trim Facebook Users' UK Class Action

By Joanne Faulkner

Meta on Tuesday told the Court of Appeal that a tribunal wrongly allowed 46 million Facebook users to expand their collective action to seek payments for the use of their personal data because that type of award is unavailable in competition claims.

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Ill. Judge Approves $37M More In PVC Price-Fix Deals

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her early approval Tuesday to more than $37 million in settlements two classes struck with a company defending against accusations that it participated in an illegal price-fixing scheme with other major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers.

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IOC Lets Russia Back Into Olympics Over Ukrainian Protests

By David Steele

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday lifted the suspension of Russia and its athletes put in place shortly after the country invaded Ukraine, with Ukraine's Olympic committee saying that the IOC's move set "a dangerous precedent.''

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Willow Bridge Reaches DOJ Deal To End Price-Fixing Claims

By Nate Beck

Dallas-based residential property manager Willow Bridge Property Co. has become the latest to reach a settlement with authorities in a North Carolina federal lawsuit accusing a host of landlords of fixing apartment prices using software from RealPage.

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Quantum Readiness May Paradoxically Raise Contractor Risk

The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cryptographic dependencies while protecting their vulnerability road map from adversaries, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

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'Tiger King' Funeral Clip Ruling Offers Fair Use Road Map

The Tenth Circuit's decision in Whyte Monkee v. Netflix that the streaming service's use of another party's funeral footage in the docuseries "Tiger King" constituted fair use lays out a framework for producers to apply the four statutory fair use factors to their own projects, says Frank D’Angelo at Loeb & Loeb.

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Ohio Fuels Litigation Funding Debate As Foreign Ban Is Enacted

By Ryan Boysen

Ohio has enacted a sweeping law that bans all foreign litigation funders from doing business in the Buckeye State, drawing praise from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and outrage from the litigation finance industry.

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ABA Seeks Trump Docs In Suit Alleging Law Firm Intimidation

By Emily Sawicki

The Trump administration cannot rely on the presidential communications privilege to block disclosure of communications related to allegations that the president sought to intimidate BigLaw firms into conforming with his policy initiatives, the American Bar Association told a D.C. federal judge.

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Trump's SDNY Pick Steps In As Clayton Focuses On DC

By Pete Brush

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pick to succeed him, James McDonald, will assume a leadership role as Clayton works on his own nomination for director of national intelligence in Washington.

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Judge Says Warning 'Sufficient Deterrent,' Nixing AI Sanctions

By Emily Sawicki

A Kentucky federal judge has declined to sanction two attorneys who filed a brief that included errors generated by artificial intelligence amid a fraud case against a notary public, finding the lawyers had no history of misconduct and had shown sufficient remorse.

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Wis. Judge Avoids Prison Time In ICE Obstruction Sentence

By Nate Beck

A former Wisconsin state judge on Wednesday was fined $5,000 but will not serve prison time for obstructing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of a defendant in her courtroom by directing him down a private hallway away from agents before he was later captured.

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Del. Judge Recuses Herself From Apollo $570M Payout Suit

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware vice chancellor presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to Apollo Global Management Inc. insiders has disqualified herself from the case after a possible conflict of interest arose due to her former role as an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, which was involved in a merger with ties to the payout.

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Ga. Judge Rejects UPS Plaintiff's Bid To Force Recusal

By Madison Arnold

A Georgia federal judge reportedly disciplined for having sexual intercourse in her chambers and attending a political event has opted not to recuse herself in the case of a former UPS employee in his dismissed racial discrimination lawsuit.

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McCarter Trial Judge Has 'Serious Doubts' About NY Expert

By Brian Steele

The Hartford judge presiding over a $22.5 million lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP and a former partner said Wednesday he had "serious doubts" about allowing testimony from a defense expert, but let him proceed as long as he did not claim to interpret New York law.

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Morgan & Morgan Malpractice Fight Won't Get Another Review

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected Morgan & Morgan PA's bid to challenge a trial court ruling denying the firm's summary judgment motion in a legal malpractice case brought against it by clients seeking representation in a personal injury action.

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Day Pitney Can't Be Cut Off From New Counsel, Client Says

By Aaron Keller

A former Connecticut chief justice's ethics gaffe cannot preclude fellow lawyers at Day Pitney LLP from communicating with new counsel for John B. Clinton, a private equity management firm owner locked in a 13-year-old, $1.3 million corporate windup lawsuit, Clinton has urged a Connecticut state court judge to conclude.

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