2nd Circ. Chilly To Additional Discovery In Cigna Pension Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit on Tuesday seemed reluctant to restart proceedings in a long-running suit against Cigna from retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, appearing unwilling to upend a decision to turn down post-judgment discovery in the class action.

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Medical Practice Faces Bid For Extra $22M After $49M Verdict

By Aaron Keller

The Westchester Medical Group PC should be forced to pay a Connecticut cancer patient and her husband an extra $22 million in interest, plus other costs, on top of a $49 million jury verdict for failing to diagnose the fatal illness in its early stages, the patient and husband have argued.

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Georgia Panel Tosses $123K Fee Award After Defense Win

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia appellate panel tossed on Tuesday an award of $123,000 in attorney fees to defense counsel after their win in a medical malpractice trial, ruling that a state judge failed to show how she arrived at the figure.

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Congress Rallies More For Bills On Copyrights Than Patents

By Adam Lidgett

There have been more intellectual property bills floated in Congress that are supportive of copyright rights than patent rights, according to a new report looking at how lawmakers treat the IP system.

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Woman Pleads Guilty In $51M Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A San Diego woman has pled guilty in California federal court to billing Medicare for nearly $51 million in fake prescriptions and trying to hide the scheme through money laundering and kickbacks to doctors.

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Defendant Says Rx Software Was Guide For Docs, Not Fraud

By Carolina Bolado

A man accused of swindling Medicare out of nearly half a billion dollars was simply trying to make it easier for doctors to navigate labyrinthine Medicare regulations to get orthotic braces approved for their patients, his attorney told jurors in Florida federal court Tuesday.

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Watchdog Says Ex-Fla. Rep Used Straw Donors For Campaign

By David Minsky

A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization accused former Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of improperly funding her 2022 reelection bid to the U.S. House of Representatives, saying she orchestrated a complex straw donor scheme to funnel $725,000 in Haitian "dark money" into her campaign. 

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Purdue Pharma Sentencing Punted For In-Person Attendance

By Clara Geoghegan

A New Jersey federal judge delayed Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma's criminal sentencing by a week, saying rescheduling would give an in-person attendance option to hundreds of observers who tuned in virtually Tuesday.

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Feds Say Pot Foes Lack Standing To Stop CMS Hemp Program

By Sam Reisman

Federal health regulators have told a D.C. federal judge that anti-pot advocates' attempt to block a program to ease access for Medicare beneficiaries to federally legal hemp products that have small amounts of THC was not bolstered by the addition of a pharmaceutical company as a co-plaintiff.

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ProMedica Wins Bid To Unseal Gov't Probe Briefs In FCA Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Nursing home operator ProMedica Health Systems Inc. has succeeded in its bid to unseal government briefs in a whistleblower case over alleged problems caused by understaffing at its facilities, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling that a presumption of openness with court records trumped the government's concerns about disclosure of its investigative methods.

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Novo Nordisk Unit Can't Slip Former Exec's Sex, Age Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A Novo Nordisk unit must face a former finance director's lawsuit claiming she was fired because she was an older woman who complained about a male co-worker's behavior, with a North Carolina federal judge ruling her allegations were detailed enough to stay in court.

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Colo. Nurses Seek OK For $14M Wage Class Settlement

By Benjamin Morse

A group of nurses urged a Colorado federal judge to grant preliminary approval to a $14 million class action settlement resolving claims that their employer failed to properly calculate overtime and provide required breaks.

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Fed. Circ. Keeps Banner Witcoff And Saiber Off Patent Case

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit kept intact the disqualification of two law firms from a patent ownership fight on Tuesday, saying it had not been shown a district judge made a clear error in removing them.

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Amgen Faces ERISA Suit Over Health Plan Tobacco Surcharge

By Gina Kim

A former Amgen Inc. employee filed a proposed class action in California federal court Tuesday alleging the biotech company discriminatorily imposes an "egregiously high" $150-a-month surcharge on employees who use tobacco products, while failing to adequately notify them of reasonable pathways to avoid the fees, in violation of federal benefits law.

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Nourish Can't Ax Wiretap Claims In Google Data Sharing Row

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to cut wiretap and negligence claims from a proposed class action accusing telehealth provider Nourish Inc. of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted website visitors' sensitive health information to Google, while tossing several privacy and contract allegations and rebuking the plaintiffs for filing a "press release complaint."

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Squires Stands By Ending Skincare IPR Over ITC Overlap

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has shot down Sinclair Pharma Ltd.'s request to revive its challenge to Hydrafacial LLC's skin treatment patent, which the director had terminated based on related proceedings at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On ESI Control

Several recent federal court decisions have perpetuated a split over what constitutes “control” of electronically stored information — with judges divided on whether the standard should turn on a party's legal right or practical ability to obtain the information, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Some Firms Break Lobbying Revenue Records Again

By Alison Knezevich

After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.

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Breyer Says 'Shadow Docket' Not A Top Court Power Grab

By Carolyn Muyskens

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that the rise of the so-called shadow docket is a consequence of the post-COVID era and not a bid to usurp influence by the high court. 

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Sullivan & Cromwell Alerts SDNY To AI Errors In Ch. 15 Case

By Andrea Keckley

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP told a New York bankruptcy judge Saturday that an emergency motion it filed in Prince Global Holdings Ltd.'s Chapter 15 case contained several inaccurate citations and other errors, including what the firm described as artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Pillsbury Unlawfully Fired Pregnant Recruiter, Bias Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

The former Black female director for associate recruiting at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP says she was unlawfully fired just weeks after disclosing her high-risk pregnancy to her supervisor, according to her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tennessee federal court.

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WDTX Judge Albright Stepping Down At End Of Summer

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is resigning after nearly eight years presiding over cases in the Western District of Texas, Law360 confirmed Tuesday.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Argues ICE Case Reversal Backs Her Acquittal

By Craig Clough

Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.

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Warsh Rejects Claim He'd Be Trump's 'Sock Puppet' At Fed

By Jon Hill

Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh sought at his Tuesday confirmation hearing to rebut Democratic accusations that he would be a White House "sock puppet," distancing himself from President Donald Trump's calls for rate cuts and downplaying their significance.

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Copyright Head Touts 6,000 Registrations Of Human-AI Works

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued more than 6,000 registrations for works that incorporate artificial intelligence-generated materials and follow the agency's guidance for combined human-made and AI-created works, U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter said Tuesday.

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