Mylan Strikes $4.5M Deal With Maryland Over EpiPen Pricing

By Gina Kim

Mylan Pharmaceuticals will pay $4.5 million to resolve allegations by the state of Maryland that Mylan acted anticompetitively when it ratcheted up costs of its portable auto-injectable EpiPen device that's used during life-threatening allergic reaction episodes, according to a recent announcement.

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BASF Cuts $3M Icebreaker Deal In Polyurethane Pricing Case

By Matthew Perlman

BASF has reached a $3 million settlement in a case accusing several companies of working together to manipulate the prices of chemicals used to make polyurethane, the first deal struck in the multidistrict litigation centered in Pennsylvania.

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Sandoz, Novartis Must Face Generics Claims From GM, Others

By Bryan Koenig

A Pennsylvania federal judge largely refused to let dozens of generic-drug makers duck stand-alone price-fixing and market allocation antitrust claims from major employers like General Motors, American Airlines and Lowe's, nixing allegations against a small handful while importantly preserving them against Novartis and its former Sandoz subsidiary.

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DOT, Mexico Inching Toward 'Consensus' In Airport Slots Fight

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that Mexico has tentatively agreed to reconsider some of its restrictions on flights into Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport, signaling there's some headway being made in a dispute over alleged violations of a decade-old bilateral air transport agreement.

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Transocean's $5.8B Bid For Drilling Rival Valaris Draws DOJ Eye

By Bryan Koenig

Transocean Ltd. disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division was scrutinizing its plan to acquire rival Valaris Ltd. in an all-stock deal valued at about $5.8 billion, pausing the combination of two of the largest offshore drilling fleets into a $17 billion operator.

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FCC Asks DC Circ. To End Nexstar-Tegna Merger Challenges

By Jared Foretek

The Federal Communications Commission is calling on the D.C. Circuit to dismiss challenges to its approval of the Nexstar-Tegna deal outright, arguing that the appeals court lacks jurisdiction because approval came from its Media Bureau staff rather than the full commission, and thus wasn't a final agency action.

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BlackRock, State Street Push To Trim Red State AGs' Suit

By Katryna Perera

BlackRock and State Street have further urged a Texas federal judge to trim down antitrust claims from Republican state attorneys general accusing the asset managers of driving up coal prices, arguing that the chain from their investment activity to retail electricity prices "stretches through multiple intervening markets and countless nonparties."

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Apple Says Webcam IP, Antitrust Suit Belongs In Calif.

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple Inc. has urged a New Jersey federal court to transfer a British software company's antitrust and patent infringement case over iPhone camera technology, arguing that the developer signed a license agreement consenting to litigate disputes with the tech giant in the Northern District of California.

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Papa John's Workers Defend No-Poach Deal From Objections

By Matthew Perlman

Papa John's employees are continuing to push a Kentucky federal court to approve a $5 million settlement for the pizza chain's past use of "no-poach" provisions in its franchise agreements, saying a handful of newly discovered objections offer no reason to reject the deal.

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Hockey Players Urge 9th Circ. To Revive U.S. Antitrust Claims

By David Steele

A U.S. federal court erroneously ruled that federal antitrust law did not apply in a case involving Canada-based hockey leagues and teams, players hoping to revive their suit alleging mistreatment by the developmental leagues told the Ninth Circuit on Monday.

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NCAA Insists Athletes Must Arbitrate NIL Deal, Not 'Rewrite' It

By David Steele

College athletes' attempt to go through the courts to exempt certain revenue streams from NCAA oversight is an end-run around the resolution they reached in last year's $2.78 billion class action settlement, the association has told a California federal judge.

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Bittrex Seeks To Undo $24M Judgment After SEC Crypto Pivot

By Ben Adlin

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex urged a Seattle federal judge to toss a $24 million judgment entered as part of a 2023 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, arguing that the agency has since done an "about-face" on crypto and abandoned its position that digital tokens are securities.

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IRS Beats Suit Claiming Secret Rule Targeted Stock Plan

By Asha Glover

A transportation company cannot pursue its claims that the IRS adopted a secret rule that targeted its stock ownership plan, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, throwing out the company's suit.

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Duane Morris Integrates Gambling, Sports Industry Groups

By James Boyle

The growing popularity of betting in sports has prompted Duane Morris LLP to respond to the meshing of the two sectors by integrating its sports and gambling law groups.

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Feds Say Stolen BigLaw Deal Info Aided Huge Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled indictments outlining a massive insider trading scheme that allegedly netted tens of millions of dollars using nonpublic information about mergers and acquisitions worked on by some of the nation's biggest law firms.

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McDermott Is Cutting Its Associate Ranks

By Aebra Coe

McDermott Will & Schulte is downsizing its associate ranks less than a year after the firm was created via a combination of legacy firms McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel, the law firm confirmed Wednesday.

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Roberts Says High Court's Job Is To Make Unpopular Rulings

By Katie Buehler

Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court often must issue "unpopular" opinions, as the high court faces widespread backlash over its recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in congressional redistricting.

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The Top Law Schools For Every Career Path: Class Of 2025

Where do law school graduates end up once they dive into the job market? Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, and other legal industry sectors.

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Atty Sanctioned Over Bogus Citations In Forced Labor Case

By Jake Maher

A Maine federal judge has sanctioned an attorney for submitting court filings with fake legal citations to oppose the dismissal of a forced labor trafficking suit against a school, after using an artificial intelligence platform.

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Feds Say 4th Circ. ICE Ruling Doesn't Help Ex-Wis. Judge

By Ryan Boysen

Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah C. Dugan can't use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling to overturn her conviction for obstructing ICE officers, the federal government said Wednesday, calling that ruling "merely relevant" and not at all binding.

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NC Man Pleads Guilty To Doxxing Justice's Home Address

By Bonnie Eslinger

A North Carolina man who posted the home address of a U.S. Supreme Court justice online and suggested violence against members of the high court pled guilty Wednesday to a "doxxing" charge with the intent to "threaten, intimidate, or incite a crime of violence" against the justice.

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Judge Won't Force Hunter Biden's Foreign Agent Registration

By Jack McLoone

A Washington, D.C., federal judge won't force the U.S. Department of Justice to register Hunter Biden as a foreign agent, dismissing a suit brought by a group founded by now-Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller because it can't establish it suffered an injury.

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