Abbott To Pay $385M To End FCA Claims Over Infant Formula

By Emily Field

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said that Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay nearly $385 million to end False Claims Act allegations over the manufacture of contaminated infant formula at locations in Michigan and Arizona.

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Trump Says He Will Remove Tariffs On Irish Whiskey

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. is planning to remove tariffs on whiskey imported from Ireland.

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Albertsons Owes $2.2B For Opioids, Wash. Says As Trial Ends

By Ben Adlin

Albertsons should pay $2.2 billion to address opioid-related harms in Washington, attorneys for the state argued at the close of a two-month bench trial Monday in contending that the pharmacy failed for years to appropriately identify and review suspicious prescriptions that fueled the state's overdose crisis.

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S. Korea Probing $743M Tax Evasion By Biz In Food, Platforms

By Kevin Pinner

South Korea is investigating about 1 trillion won ($743 million) in suspected tax evasion by 41 companies primarily in the food sector as well as transfer pricing by online platform operators, the National Tax Service said Monday.

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Chamber Tells Justices Plane Forfeiture Should Be Blocked

By Mike Curley

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reaffirm the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause and find that the state of Alaska's seizure of a $95,000 plane over a six-pack of beer is out of proportion to the alleged harm.

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NY Village Can Pursue PFAS Claims Against Local Cos.

By Mike Curley

A New York federal judge won't let a group of manufacturing and industrial companies out of a suit by the Village of Nyack alleging they contaminated the water supply with so-called forever chemicals, saying the allegations in the complaint make a plausible claim under state and federal environmental law.

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FTC Focus: A Shift In The Pricing Disclosure Terrain

Recent state and Federal Trade Commission developments spotlight materially different ways in which personalized pricing might be addressed, which could result in an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape in which businesses face differing disclosure obligations and substantive restrictions depending upon the jurisdiction, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Big Biz Coalition Backs Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule

By Ryan Boysen

Big U.S. businesses and insurers like Amazon, Anthropic, Chubb and Walmart asked the federal judiciary on Monday to tighten disclosure requirements for litigation finance, claiming the lack of guardrails allows funders to operate "in the shadows."

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Indiana Atty Hit With $10K Sanction Over False Citations

By Andrea Keckley

An Indiana federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to sanction a local attorney $10,000 after finding that five briefs in a consumer credit case included citations to nonexistent cases.

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Jackson Lewis Removes Ex-Atty's Bias Suit To Federal Court

By Patrick Hoff

Jackson Lewis PC has moved a former associate's suit accusing the firm of refusing to accommodate her temporary work restrictions following her medical leave to California federal court, saying state court wasn't the right venue for dispute.

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Bove Rejects Recusal Bid Tied To DOJ Whistleblower Claims

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove declined Monday to recuse himself in a Third Circuit immigration case, saying the attorneys for the petitioner are "recycling a failed pre-confirmation political smear" on him.

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State Farm Attorney Sanctioned $999.99 For AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney for State Farm who filed several motions citing nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by AI software must pay a $999.99 sanction, a Los Angeles judge ruled, an amount one cent below the threshold that would have triggered a mandatory notice to the State Bar of California under state law.

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Ex-Moses & Singer Partner Gets 10 Months For Tax Crimes

By Craig Clough

A Connecticut federal judge Monday sentenced a former Moses & Singer LLP partner to 10 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay more than $3.1 million for failing to file personal income tax returns, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.

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