5th Circ. Revives Facebook Users' Eyemart Wiretap Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

The Fifth Circuit on Friday revived a group of Facebook users' proposed class action accusing Eyemart Express LLC of disclosing their HIPAA-protected information to Meta without their consent, saying in a published opinion that Eyemart and a district court had read the statutory definition of individually identifiable health information too narrowly.

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Hims & Hers Says Privacy Policy, Disclosures Foil FTC Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

Hims & Hers Health Inc. urged a California federal court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's suit accusing it of misleading consumers about its privacy and billing practices, arguing the agency ignored the telehealth platform's disclosures about those practices in an attempt to "manufacture deception."

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Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk Antitrust Suit Remains Dismissed

By Rae Ann Varona

A Texas federal judge has denied Strive Specialties Inc.'s bid to undo her judgment dismissing the compounding pharmacy's lawsuit that accuses Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk of blocking competition for GLP-1 medications, saying Strive's claim that the court committed a manifest legal error was based on the company's own misunderstanding.

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J&J Wins Ohio Talc Mesothelioma Trial

By Emily Field

An Ohio state jury on Friday found in Johnson & Johnson's favor in a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a woman who alleged that her mesothelioma was caused by her longtime use of talc cosmetic products containing asbestos.

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Telemed Co. Owner Gets 20 Years For $46M Medicare Scheme

By Carolina Bolado

The owner of a telemedicine company was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pled guilty to organizing and leading a $46.2 million fraud that targeted Medicare patients to get them to accept unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests.

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1st Circ. Says Sinovac Investor's Fraud Suit Came Too Late

By Katryna Perera

The First Circuit found that investment management firm MW Gestion was a few months too late to sue an investor and his firm on a claim they hid their growing stake in China-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech Ltd., upholding a lower court's ruling that ended MW Gestion's proposed class action on behalf of Sinovac shareholders.

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More Info Needed To Back Up Conduent $80M Breach Deal

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge said a bid for preliminary approval of an $80 million settlement between data breach victims and Conduent Business Services LLC lacks the case-specific materials needed to evaluate the deal's fairness.

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Geico Says Fla. Cos. Owe $4M For Fraudulent Billing Scheme

By Hope Patti

A group of Geico insurers told a Florida federal court Friday that they are entitled to recover more than $4 million from healthcare companies that they say submitted thousands of fraudulent no-fault insurance claims for medically unnecessary services purportedly provided to insured car crash victims.

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NC Asks 4th Circ. To Undo Atty Fees In Prison Trans Care Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

North Carolina urged the Fourth Circuit on Friday to reverse over half a million dollars in legal fees awarded to a formerly incarcerated transgender woman alleging she was wrongly denied gender-affirming surgery at a state prison, arguing the award defies U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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Consumers Fight Bids To End Delta-8 Mislabeling Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

Vape maker Savage Enterprises, two distributors and a California testing lab must not be allowed to shake a lawsuit accusing them of trying to pass off vape pens with illegal levels of THC as legal hemp products, consumers told an Arkansas federal court, saying their dismissal bids are moot because there is a new complaint.

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Del. Forum Selection Clause Sinks IQVIA's NC Poaching Suit

By Hayley Fowler

IQVIA Holdings Inc. should have brought its poaching suit against four former employees accused of defecting to a competitor in Delaware court under a forum selection clause in their employment contracts, a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled Thursday in dismissing the case.

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EEOC Suit Over Yale's Age-Based Doc Testing Headed To Trial

By Patrick Hoff

A Connecticut federal judge on Friday shot down competing bids to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing Yale New Haven Hospital of unlawfully subjecting doctors over 70 to cognitive tests, ruling a trial is needed to determine whether patient safety concerns warranted the exams.

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Baxter Says Novum Pump Issues Don't Show Securities Fraud

By Lauraann Wood

A group of Baxter International shareholders should not be allowed to pursue securities fraud claims over a new fluid pump product later deemed defective simply because the product and its revenues performed worse than publicly expected, the company and its executives have told an Illinois federal judge.

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Nurse Says NY Health System Forced Pregnancy Leave

By Grace Elletson

New York's largest health system required a pregnant nurse to take leave rather than accommodate her when she asked to take breaks and not lift more than 10 pounds throughout her high-risk pregnancy, according to a new suit filed in federal court.

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Insurer Can't Exit Captive Carrier Fight, NC Justices Rule

By Hope Patti

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday backed a state Business Court decision denying a Georgia insurance company's bid to dismiss third-party claims brought against it in a shareholder dispute over the demise of a defunct captive insurer.

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Fenwick, Cooley Steer Lycia Therapeutics' Upsized $318M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Early-stage biotechnology firm Lycia Therapeutics began trading Friday after raising $318 million in its upsized initial public offering steered by Fenwick & West LLP and Cooley LLP.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Milbank, De Brauw, Wachtell

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, EQT Private Equity announces a takeover offer for life sciences testing company Qiagen NV, Salesforce acquires customer engagement platform Braze and London Stock Exchange Group buys U.S. credit intelligence provider Octus.

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Crowell & Moring Hires 10-Year DOJ Healthcare Litigator

By Jack Rodgers

Crowell & Moring LLP has hired a U.S. Department of Justice litigator who has spent the past decade as a senior trial lawyer in the Civil Division's commercial litigation branch, the firm recently announced.

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3rd Circ. Ruling Opens Door For Fraud-On-The-Market Rethink

The Third Circuit's recent decision in Ocugen, holding that a stable stock price after publication of restated financials does not prove immateriality, could be a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the doctrine undergirding certification of securities class actions, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Weil Merger Talks With Willkie End, Another Partner To Leave

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP have ended merger discussions and another top Weil partner is set to depart the firm, sources with knowledge on the matters told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Q&A

Holland & Knight Legal Profession Head On MSO Dealmaking

By Al Barbarino

Holland & Knight LLP partner Trisha Rich is at the forefront of the firm's work in a fast-growing corner of the legal industry, advising law firms setting up management services organizations, or MSOs, as well as the investors looking to buy into them.

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Trump Adviser Ducking Service In Exec Orders Suit, ABA Says

By Jack Karp

Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn has evaded service of subpoenas, so the American Bar Association should be allowed to pursue alternative means of serving him in its lawsuit over President Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate BigLaw firms, the organization is telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge.

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Mass. Judge Jailed Atty For 'Attitude,' Ethics Complaint Says

By Julie Manganis

A former Massachusetts state court judge placed a public defender into custody for hours over his "attitude" during a March 2025 hearing, the state's judicial conduct commission has said in a disciplinary complaint.

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SEC Fights LSU Claim That Case Citations Were 'Hallucinated'

By Alex Lawson

The Southeastern Conference is disputing claims that it submitted "hallucinated" case citations in its lawsuit challenging Louisiana State University's efforts to add former professional players to its sports teams, urging an Alabama federal judge to strike the allegations.

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Insurer Says NY Firm Staged Accidents For Suits

By Danielle Ferguson

A reinsurance company has filed another complaint accusing a New York personal injury law firm of recruiting workers to stage injuries in support of meritless claims, a few months after the Second Circuit dismissed similar claims because the insurer didn't have any direct injuries to bring a racketeering suit. 

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Ex-DOJ Officials And Judicial Nominees Vie For Office

By Courtney Bublé

Hundreds of candidates are on the ballot in the midterm elections, happening in less than two weeks, and among them are former U.S. Department of Justice officials and unsuccessful judicial nominees.

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9th Circ. Judge Hints Trump US Atty Firing OK Despite 'Chaos'

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit judge remarked on Friday that President Donald Trump's ouster of court-appointed Seattle U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff has sown "chaos," but pushed back against Rogoff's contention that the move amounted to executive overreach, noting that the president already controls the office via the attorney general.

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NY Commercial Attys Must Justify Discovery Cost Bids Early

By Andrea Keckley

New York Courts Chief Administrative Judge Joseph A. Zayas said in an administrative order earlier this month that commercial litigators who want opposing counsel to fund some or all of the discovery process must state their basis for the request and provide a "good faith" estimate of the costs.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers PA and DiCello Levitt lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico federal judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over the lies that the social media giant offered the public regarding its data privacy practices.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Meta's legal chief says the company will appeal a $25 billion verdict involving data privacy practices including the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And a new study shows that while in-house starting salaries are staying stable, adding special skills like AI expertise can lift them higher.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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