A western Massachusetts city's health board lacked the power to order a Verizon cell tower to shut down due to health concerns, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.
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Mass. Justices Say Health Board Can't Halt Verizon Tower

By Carolyn Muyskens

A western Massachusetts city's health board lacked the power to order a Verizon cell tower to shut down due to health concerns, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.

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Texas Panel Overturns Abortion Injunction Against Midwife

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Texas appellate court overturned a temporary injunction against a licensed Houston-area midwife accused by state prosecutors of violating Texas' abortion ban, finding Thursday a trial court wrongly admitted probable-cause affidavits from a related criminal case.

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NJ Panel Backs Doc In Malpractice Case Over Missed Cancer

By Y. Peter Kang

A New Jersey appeals court Thursday tossed a suit accusing a doctor of negligent medical treatment which led to a three-year delay of a patient's cancer diagnosis, saying the patient's medical expert did not properly allege that the delay caused harm.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Okla. Chiropractor Convicted Of $30M Medical Fraud Scheme

By David Minsky

A Florida federal jury convicted an Oklahoma chiropractor of attempting to bilk $30 million from federal health insurance programs, finding him guilty of a fraud conspiracy charge after he obtained patient information to produce fake doctors' orders for unnecessary medical equipment, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Texas Lab, Investors To Pay $24M In COVID-19 Testing Scheme

By Gina Kim

Owners of a Dallas medical testing laboratory and their investors will altogether pay $24 million to resolve allegations that they ran afoul of the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare for unnecessary respiratory pathogen panel testing for seniors in assisted living facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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LITIGATION

Mo. Panel Says Exclusion Bars Mallinckrodt Opioid Coverage

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Missouri appellate court upheld a win for a group of insurers on their arguments that a "your products" policy exclusion applied to bar coverage of alleged damages from drugmaker Mallinckrodt's unbranded marketing of opioid products.

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8th Circ. Says Vendor Didn't Show Major Harm In Bank IP Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Missouri federal judge's refusal to block Commerce Bank from using software that a vendor alleges was developed with its trade secrets, ruling the vendor failed to show it was likely to suffer harm that could not be remedied later.

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Colo. Rehab Patients Sue Over Private Data Leak

By MJ Koo

Patients of a Colorado rehabilitation medicine clinic filed a proposed class action in federal court over a ransomware attack that may have exposed their medical records, insurance information and other sensitive personal data.

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Abbott Labs Accused Of Lax Security Over Shinyhunters Hack

By Gina Kim

Abbott Laboratories and Exact Sciences were hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court Wednesday over a cyberattack carried out by a notorious ransomware gang known as "Shinyhunters" that absconded with patients' medical records, which the suit says is far more harmful than standard identity theft.

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UnitedHealth's $5M Demand Challenged By Wash. Dental Co.

By Rachel Riley

A dental practice is urging a Washington federal court to stop UnitedHealth from withholding future reimbursements, saying the insurer has failed to fully explain its assertion that it overpaid the practice more than $5 million for past claims, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

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Target Sold Baby Formula That Caused Botulism, Parents Say

By Rachel Riley

Two parents claim their baby came down with infant botulism after drinking tainted whole milk powdered formula sold by Target and formula-maker Nara Organics, which later recalled the product amid an outbreak that sickened at least three other children, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington federal court.

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DEALS

Kirkland, Sullivan & Cromwell Steer $2B ArisGlobal Deal

By Al Barbarino

Dassault Systèmes has agreed to acquire ArisGlobal, an AI-driven software provider for the life sciences industry, from private equity firm Nordic Capital for up to $2 billion, the companies said Thursday.

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3 Firms Guide Health Wellness Co.'s $650M SPAC Merger

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Health wellness company First Choice Healthcare Solutions announced that it has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Western Acquisition Corp. in a $650 million deal built by three law firms.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Being A Singer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Before law school, I spent seven years trying to make it as a professional singer in Los Angeles, and nearly everything I learned about preparation, humility, confidence and more has followed me into my legal practice, says Jessica Caterina at Moses & Singer.

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AG Watch: Ohio AG Joins State Antitrust Enforcement Trend

Amid the recent reprioritization in the federal government's competition enforcement agenda, two recent cases provide critical insight into how the Ohio attorney general will proceed in the relatively unprecedented trend of state attorneys general aggressively pursuing antitrust matters, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Simpson Thacher Warned Co. About Deal Terms, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.

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ABA Rips DOJ's 'Absurd' Firm Subpoenas In Documents Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association has blasted as "absurd" the government's move to subpoena law firms as an attempt to avoid a documents request from the organization amid allegations the Trump administration worked to intimidate law firms into conforming with his policy goals through executive orders last year.

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Judge's Deportation Probe 'Off The Rails,' DOJ Tells DC Circ.

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration urged the full D.C. Circuit to either order U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt inquiry into the administration's Alien Enemies Act removals last year, or order him to forgo live testimony in the probe.

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Jack Smith's Lawyers Say Criminal Referral Twists Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith's legal team has said the criminal referral a U.S. Congress member sent the Department of Justice to investigate Smith is based on a "spurious claim."

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500-Member NYC Public Defender Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The first and so far only New York City public defender union to go on strike this year announced on Wednesday that its approximately 500 members are returning to work after reaching a tentative agreement with their managers.

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Patent Atty Sues USPTO Over 'Flawed' Disciplinary Procedure

By Hailey Konnath

An Ohio patent lawyer Thursday accused the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of using an unlawful "pay for play" system for its disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, claiming the disciplinary proceedings are "inherently biased" and rigged against him and others facing discipline.

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Senate Confirms 2 Judges, Advances Ohio And Colo. Picks

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday voted 48-47 to confirm Judge Daniel Traynor of the District of North Dakota to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and 49-44 to confirm Antonio M. Pozos, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, as a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Laboratories

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Home Assurance Co.

American International Group Inc.

ArisGlobal LLC

Ascend Wellness Holdings

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

Brooklyn Defender Services

ByHeart Inc.

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Dassault Systemes SE

EXACT Sciences Corp.

Instagram Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jushi Holdings Inc.

Ketchum Inc.

Lifetime Healthcare Inc.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Nasdaq Inc.

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Nordic Capital Ltd.

Patriot National Inc.

Premera Blue Cross

Target Corp.

The Bronx Defenders

The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc.

Trulieve

UBS Group AG

United Auto Workers

UnityPoint Health Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Armstrong Teasdale

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Banner Witcoff

BatesCarey

Brennan Manna

Brown & James

Burns Charest

Cafferty Clobes

Clyde & Co

Conrad & Scherer

Covington & Burling

Dowd Bennett

Dughi Hewit

Faegre Drinker

Holwell Shuster

Husch Blackwell

Kelley Drye

Kirkland & Ellis

Laukaitis Law

MacNeill O'Neill

Mayer Brown

McCabe & Ali

McCollough Law Firm PC

Moses & Singer

Paul & Perkins

Riezman Berger

Sandberg Phoenix

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sichenzia Ross

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skarzynski Marick

Stearns Weaver

Stranch Jennings

Stratagem Law

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Watters Wolf

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Law Revision Commission

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

City and County of San Francisco, California

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

New Jersey Court

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Ohio Attorney General's Office

Texas Attorney General's Office

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio