Mylan Can't Revive Copaxone Antitrust Claims Against Teva

By Bryan Koenig

A New Jersey federal judge sided Monday with a special master's recommendations to nix some of the parallel claims from Mylan and retailers like Walgreens accusing Teva of using regulatory deception, false advertising, improper rebates and more to delay generic competition to its Copaxone multiple sclerosis treatment.

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Engineers Ask To Add Whistleblower To TikTok Sale Case

By Jared Foretek

Software engineers from Alphabet and Meta are asking the D.C. Circuit for permission to update their petition challenging the Trump administration's handling of the TikTok U.S. divestiture, saying whistleblower allegations from a former ByteDance employee bolster their claim that the deal doesn't comply with Congress' mandate.

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Calif. High Schools Resume Court Fight Against Athlete NIL

By David Steele

California's high school sports governing body has told a California federal court that the athletes demanding name, image and likeness rights again failed to prove that the state's ban eliminates competition for their talents.

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Chamber, Other Biz Groups Back Insulin Cos. At High Court

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an appeal from Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca, arguing the Second Circuit's revival of an antitrust suit risks opening up liability just for trade group membership.

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Brief

After NCAA's Win, Nevada Player Drops Eligibility Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A college baseball player who recently lost at the Ninth Circuit in his suit pushing the NCAA to let him play for a sixth season has dropped his antitrust lawsuit against the athletic association.

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Startup's Ticketmaster Antitrust Suit May Get 2027 Trial Date

By Ganesh Setty

A California federal court tentatively scheduled an October 2027 trial for a shuttered startup's antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, after the startup claimed that Ticketmaster's exclusive agreements with venues thwarted its ability to compete in the ticketing business.

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Stikeman-Led GFL Inks $4.6B Waste Management Deal

By Al Barbarino

GFL Environmental Inc. has agreed to buy Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp. in a CA$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) deal that would combine one of North America's largest waste haulers with a Western Canadian disposal and industrial waste infrastructure operator.

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UK Calls For Feedback On $110B Paramount, Warner Deal

By Najiyya Budaly

Britain's antitrust authority called on interested parties on Monday to comment on whether Paramount Skydance's $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery has the potential to harm competition in any U.K. markets.

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DC Circ. Digs Into FTC Rationale For Media Matters Probe

By Nadia Dreid

A D.C. Circuit panel tore into a Federal Trade Commission lawyer on Monday as the agency fought to convince the three judges that a lower court had no right to block it from investigating a left-leaning media watchdog, a probe the group claims is retaliation for publishing anti-Nazi content.

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DOJ Seeks OK On Blackstone's LivCor Rent Price-Fixing Deal

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Justice Department has asked a North Carolina federal court to grant final approval to its settlement with LivCor LLC, a subsidiary of Blackstone, which would resolve allegations that the landlord used RealPage's revenue management software to fix rent prices.

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Genius Wants Copy Of Settlement Between Sports Tech Rivals

By Elaine Briseño

Sports technology company Genius Sports Ltd. is asking a Texas federal court to compel Panda Interactive to follow the court's discovery order by sharing a copy of a settlement agreement Panda reached in a similar patent lawsuit with a different rival.

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Green Roofing Co. Says Ex-Employee Stole Clients, Trade Secrets

By Elliot Weld

A green wall and roofing company has accused a former employee of siphoning trade secrets and clients through misrepresentations and using them to start a competing company before making efforts to cover her tracks.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-stakes settlements, fast-moving deal litigation, governance disputes and a notable post-trial ruling involving fraud-tainted loans.

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Ill. Judge Wants More Proof To Recalculate Kickback Damages

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge tasked with recalculating damages from a home health company's referral kickback scheme said Monday that she needs more complete and reliable evidence to help determine the appropriate amount, but allowed the government to continue offsetting Medicare payments as part of its judgment collection bid.

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Ex-Med Spa Workers Settle Conn. Poaching Claims

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut medical spa has settled a state court lawsuit accusing two former employees of luring clients and a colleague to a similar facility less than six miles away, court records show.

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Opinion

State Bars Need To Get Specific About AI Confidentiality

Lawyers need to put actual client information into artificial intelligence tools to get their full value, but they cannot confidently do so until state bars offer clear, formal authority on which plan tiers of the three most popular generative AI tools are safe to use when sharing specific client details, says attorney Nick Berk.

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Opinion

Apple Discovery Fight Could Revive DOJ's Antitrust Appetite

Winning discovery disputes in the ongoing federal antitrust litigation over Apple’s app store practices is a huge opportunity for the Justice Department to return to its once-vigorous pursuit of product tying by tech monopolies, catch up with foreign competition regulators and establish clear standards for digital markets, says Ediberto Roman at Florida International University.

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DLA Piper Defeats Fired Associate's Claims Of Pregnancy Bias

By Pete Brush

A federal jury in Manhattan declined to award damages Monday to a former associate who says DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant, absolving the BigLaw firm hours after tense closing arguments.

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Q&A

Former Pardon Atty Says Trump's Clemency Grants Hurt DOJ

By Phillip Bantz

Former U.S. Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer spoke recently with Law360 about how the pardon process has changed, the impact the shift might have on the DOJ and how the system could be reformed.

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DOJ Urges DC Circ. To Revive Trump EOs Targeting Firms

By Alison Knezevich

The D.C. Circuit should individually review each section of President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting four law firms, allowing certain portions to stand if others are blocked, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in a new filing urging the court to revive the measures.

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Analysis

The Justices Had Their Say On Immunity. Is A DC Jury Next?

By Chris Villani

The limits of presidential immunity are once again set to be tested after a D.C. federal judge ruled President Donald Trump must face civil claims over the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, clearing the way for trial and potentially another high-stakes appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Meta Pulls Some Attys' Social Media Addiction Ads

By Rachel Rippetoe

After losing a bellwether trial last month in one of a slew of cases from plaintiffs who claim to have been harmed by social media, Meta has begun removing ads from attorneys seeking clients with similar claims.

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Brief

EEOC To Produce Law Firm DEI Letter Records By May 15

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Monday that it would give two law professors documents related to 20 letters the agency sent to law firms over their purported diversity, equity and inclusion practices by May 15.

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Morgan & Morgan Sued Over Firing Amid Nevada Expansion

By Emily Sawicki

Personal injury titan Morgan & Morgan is facing allegations from a former firm attorney in California state court alleging the Golden State lawyer was pressured to file suits in neighboring Nevada despite having an inactive law license and no experience practicing there, and was then harassed and wrongfully fired over the filings.

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Atty Says Ogletree Can't Litigate Against Her In 2 Similar Cases

By Adrian Cruz

A Georgia attorney said Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC should be disqualified from serving as defense counsel in a discrimination suit she's working on while simultaneously litigating against her on behalf of her ex-employer in a similar matter.

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NJ Man Who Sought To DQ US Atty Leadership To Plead Guilty

By Gina Kim

A criminal defendant who joined a pending bid to disqualify assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and escalated a constitutional challenge to its leadership structure told a federal judge Saturday he plans to plead guilty in his drug case. 

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