Analysis

Drugmakers Fight Multifront Legal Battles Over GLP-1s

By Hannah Albarazi

In the wake of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, surging public demand and massive profits have inspired a broad range of drugmaker litigation against competitors, alleged counterfeits and telehealth providers.

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FTC Urges DC Circ. To Unblock Media Matters Probe

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission told the D.C. Circuit the agency's investigation into left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America is about potential collusion in the advertising industry, not retaliation for reporting on Nazi content, and said a lower court was wrong to block the probe.

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Google Wants One Complaint From Ad Tech Rivals, Not Six

By Bryan Koenig

Google has asked a New York federal judge to tee up a bid to forcibly consolidate half a dozen antitrust lawsuits from rivals accusing Google of hobbling their advertising placement technology businesses, arguing one combined complaint would be more efficient for the lawsuits bearing "substantial similarities."

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Cigna Accused Of Rigging Market For Life-Saving Drugs

By Bryan Koenig

Patients with chronic health conditions sued Cigna in an Illinois federal court alleging in a proposed class action Tuesday that the company and its pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager subsidiaries use exclusive agreements to lock users into a network where Byzantine refill processes have been deliberately erected to limit payouts for life-saving drugs.

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Bankrupt Hospital Wants Out Of $3B BCBS Antitrust Deal

By Rick Archer

A bankrupt Alabama hospital is asking a federal judge to allow it to drop out of a $2.8 billion antitrust class action settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield, saying it may be forced to shut down unless it can pursue separate relief in bankruptcy court.

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DOJ Wants Time During Door Maker Divestiture Argument

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking to appear at an upcoming Fourth Circuit argument to support a door manufacturer defending the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge.

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NASCAR Boss Resigns Weeks After Antitrust Suit Settlement

By David Steele

NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps resigned Monday, less than four weeks after the stock car racing organization settled a suit with two teams accusing it of being a monopoly — a suit in which derogatory texts by Phelps were revealed.

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Zillow, Redfin Fight FTC's Bid For More Discovery Time

By Isaac Monterose

Zillow Group Inc., Zillow Inc. and Redfin Corp. are urging a Virginia federal court to reject a bid for more discovery time filed by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple states for their combined antitrust suit against the two property listing companies.

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Amazon Seeks To 'Hot Tub' MIT Prof's Opinion In Antitrust Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Amazon.com Inc. has asked a Seattle federal court for a "hot tub" hearing in a proposed consumer antitrust class action that accuses the e-commerce giant of artificially raising retail prices, saying the novel litigation technique for concurrently questioning parties' experts is needed to vet one expert's change in opinion.

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5th Circ. Pushes FDA On 'De Facto' Vape Marketing Ban

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel seemed leery of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's claim that it had no de facto ban in place for flavored refillable e-cigarette products, saying Tuesday that denying hundreds of thousands of applications seemed an awful lot like a ban.

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11th Circ. Backs FTC Win In False Ad Suit Against Corpay

By Rae Ann Varona

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's win in its lawsuit against Corpay Inc., saying in a published opinion that "overwhelming" evidence backed a lower court's finding that the company engaged in deceptive advertising and unfair billing practices when marketing and selling fuel cards.

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Envestnet Trade Secrets Suit Cleared For Trial

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware federal judge has cleared the way for a long-running fintech trade secrets case to proceed toward trial, overruling defense objections to spoliation findings and holding that a jury may infer that destroyed electronic evidence would have been unfavorable to Envestnet Inc. and its former subsidiary Yodlee Inc.

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NJ Judge Signals Green Light To Revive J&J Unit's Libel Suit

By Emily Lever

A New Jersey federal judge has indicated she is planning to grant a bankrupt Johnson & Johnson talc subsidiary's bid to revive its trade libel claim over a scientific article linking asbestos in talc to mesothelioma.

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Calif. Tribe Rejects Feds' Delay In 40-Acre Land Transfer Fight

By Crystal Owens

A California tribe is asking a D.C. federal court to deny a bid by the U.S. Department of the Interior for an indefinite stay in responding to a challenge to the agency's decision to approve a 40-acre land transfer for a fellow state tribe's casino project.

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Texas Justices Erase ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

By Lynn LaRowe

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order ending a longstanding rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, with the court giving itself the authority for accreditation.

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Ameritas Says Prior Deal Ends Couple's Annuity Fraud Suit

By Hope Patti

A retired military officer and his wife cannot proceed with a suit over the sale of unsuitable equity indexed annuities, Ameritas and a former insurance agent said, urging a North Carolina federal court to enforce a settlement agreement and release that resulted from mediation.

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Distribution Co. Drops Suit Alleging Kraft Stole Database

By Elliot Weld

A distribution company has voluntarily dismissed a suit accusing The Kraft Heinz Co. of stealing confidential information by having one of its executives in the Netherlands download a database in violation of a licensing agreement.

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FTC Signals Support Of Miss. Bill For Midwives' Solo Practice

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Federal Trade Commission official on Monday encouraged a Mississippi lawmaker to keep in mind the possible motives of opponents of proposed legislation that would exempt midwives from having to contract with physicians to provide advanced-level nursing care.

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Key Trends In Healthcare Antitrust In 2025

The healthcare industry braced for significant antitrust enforcement shifts last year driven by a change in administration, and understanding the implications of these trends is critical for healthcare organizations' risk management and strategic decision-making in the year ahead, say attorneys at Michael Best.

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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

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Trump Announces First Judicial Picks Of 2026

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening his first judicial nominees of 2026, a slate of four district court picks for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Judgeship Nomination Not Renewed Amid Fla. Charity Probe

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of John Guard, senior counselor to the attorney general of Florida, for a Middle District of Florida federal judgeship, has not been renewed for the new session of Congress after he came under scrutiny in a criminal probe regarding a charity connected to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs

By Elliot Weld

A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.

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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."

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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

By Jeff Overley

The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President

By Jake Maher

The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.

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