Kansas Judge Permanently Blocks Abortion Care Restrictions

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Kansas state court has permanently enjoined a slew of restrictions on abortion care, including requirements that providers disclose patients' reasons for seeking an abortion to the state and inform patients about abortion pill "reversal" treatments the court said were "unlikely to be biologically plausible."

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Pa. Court Wipes Out $19M Verdict In Nursing Home Death Suit

By Mike Curley

A Pennsylvania appeals court has vacated $19 million in damages, including $15 million in punitive damages, in a suit against nursing home operators and managers over the death of a resident, finding the trial court should have reconsidered damages after negating liability against two of the four defendants.

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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.

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HHS Decertifies Ky. Organ Group Amid Investigation

By Mark Payne

After a federal investigation found that a Kentucky organ procurement organization moved forward to recover the organs of a man showing signs of life, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced it's revoking the group's certification. 

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Drug Cos. Can't Trim Humana's Price-Fix Claims In Bellwether

By Craig Clough

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid by a number of generic drug manufacturers to dismiss two antitrust claims brought by health insurer Humana Inc. from an upcoming bellwether trial in long-running antitrust multidistrict litigation, finding they were brought within the statute of limitations.

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Revive Rx Can't End Eli Lilly's Suit Over Tirzepatide Drugs

By Ivan Moreno

A Texas federal judge has denied Revive Rx's bid to end Eli Lilly and Co.'s remaining unfair competition claims over the compounding pharmacy's sales of allegedly unapproved tirzepatide weight loss drugs that Eli Lilly says compete with Mounjaro and Zepbound, rejecting Revive's argument that compounded drugs fall outside state "new drug" laws.

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Takeda Says Rebates, Subsidies Cut $885M IBS Drug Verdict

By Bryan Koenig

Takeda Pharmaceuticals battled with a class of health plans over whether a Massachusetts federal jury's $885 million antitrust verdict against the drugmaker for conspiring to delay generic competition to anticonstipation drug Amitiza should be reduced by rebates the drugmaker paid and Medicare subsidies that reduced the health plans' costs.

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Product Liability Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

By Emily Field

Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

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No Coverage For Assisted Living Death, Fla. Panel Says

By Danielle Ferguson

A Florida appellate court on Wednesday reversed a judgment that required National Assisted Living Risk Retention Group to provide coverage for a wrongful death suit from a resident's 2012 death, finding no claim was made during the relevant policy period.

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Glenmark Pharma Hit With Safety Suit After Carvedilol Recalls

By Craig Clough

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals' generic drug carvedilol, used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, was misrepresented as therapeutically equivalent to the brand-name drug Coreg but contained undisclosed nitrosamine impurities that changed its strength, quality and safety profile, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.

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Mich. Parents Seek $375K In Newborn Blood Spot Case

By Melanie Dorsey

A group of Michigan parents has asked a federal judge to award nearly $375,000 in attorney fees and costs after they secured a consent judgment that ended part of the state's newborn blood spot retention program and required the destruction of about 3.4 million samples. 

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Aetna, Others Hit Pharma Cos. With Xifaxan Pay-To-Delay Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Health insurance companies Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corp. and Molina Inc. have sued multiple pharmaceutical companies in Pennsylvania state court in Pittsburgh, alleging that the defendants conspired to delay the release of generic versions of the irritable bowel syndrome drug Xifaxan, in violation of antitrust laws.

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Fenwick-Led Attovia Therapeutics Prices Upsized $289M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Early-stage biotechnology company Attovia Therapeutics hit the public markets on Wednesday after it raised $289 million in its upsized initial public offering.

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King & Spalding Hires Crowell Healthcare Consulting Leader

By Jack Rodgers

King & Spalding LLP has announced the hiring of a Crowell & Moring LLP partner who was also the managing director of Crowell Health Solutions, a consulting vertical that his former firm launched four years earlier.

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Calif. Drug Ruling Affirms Defect-Centric Liability Framework

The California Supreme Court's decision in Gilead Tenofovir Cases this week rejects a novel duty-to-innovate theory of negligence that could have reshaped product liability exposure well beyond the pharmaceutical industry, instead signaling that negligence claims premised on nondefective products are unlikely to succeed, say attorneys at Dechert.

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DOJ's FCA Push Creates Risks For Construction Contractors

The construction industry may be uniquely vulnerable to a new generation of False Claims Act enforcement driven by the U.S. Department of Justice's increasing usage of the FCA to target a much broader category of conduct than it has in decades past, specifically compliance certifications and regulatory representations, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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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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2 Law Firms Say IRS Wrongly Denied COVID-19 Tax Credits

By Adrian Cruz

A pair of law firms are alleging in Georgia federal court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to employee retention credits, a tax incentive created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage businesses to keep workers on their payrolls.

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NC House OKs Unpaid Suspensions For Judges Under Inquiry

By Hayley Fowler

Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representatives have given the green light to a legislative proposal empowering the chief justice of the state Supreme Court to suspend trial court judges without pay if they're under investigation by the state Judicial Standards Commission.

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Simpson Thacher Lands In Chicago With 5-Atty Kirkland Team

By James Boyle

A five-person team of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys are moving their practices to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to help the firm launch an office in Chicago.

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No Simpson Thacher Malpractice In PIPE Case, Jury Finds

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP escaped a malpractice lawsuit late Thursday over its representation of Patriot National Inc. in a private investment in public equity transaction in the years before the company's downfall.

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Sidley Adds Ex-Accenture Enterprise Platforms Lead As CIO

By Matt Perez

Sidley Austin LLP on Wednesday announced the hiring of a nearly two-decade veteran at professional services firm Accenture as its chief information officer.

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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org, Defend Democracy

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.

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Richards Layton Under Fire Amid Bid To Avoid AI Sanctions

By Rose Krebs

A firm has asked a Delaware vice chancellor to allow it to submit more "factual information" regarding what it says are inconsistencies in Richards Layton & Finger PA's attempt to avoid sanctions for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence.

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Justices' FTC Ruling Weakens Qui Tam's Constitutional Base

The U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Trump v. Slaughter, expanding presidential control over those exercising executive power, suggests that courts may be receptive to arguments challenging the constitutional foundations of the False Claims Act’s qui tam mechanism, says Daniel Passeser at Wiggin.

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The Dramatic Moments Set To Shape Tom Goldstein's Appeal

By Jeff Overley and Jared Foretek

Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.

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6th Circ. Slashes 'Egregious' Fee Award In Tax-Taking Suit

By Susan Smiley

Michigan attorneys representing plaintiffs in a tax foreclosure suit had their awarded attorney fees, which more than doubled the settlement they obtained in the case, slashed by a Sixth Circuit panel in a published opinion Thursday.

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Ex-GC Hijacked Accounts And Posted Klan Imagery, Suit Says

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state court granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday in a school fundraising company's lawsuit accusing its former general counsel of taking control of its social media accounts and allegedly replacing its LinkedIn photo with a manipulated image of its president in a Ku Klux Klan robe.

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Wash. Justices Offer Bar Waiver After July Exam Tech Failure

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court said Thursday it's offering to waive the bar exam requirement for first-time applicants who were unable to take the test last week due to an abrupt cancellation driven by technical issues at the Yakima Convention Center where it was scheduled to be administered.   

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Dems Slam Skadden's 'Nothing To See Here' Trump Deal Reply

By Hailey Konnath

Three Democratic lawmakers on Thursday criticized Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's response to their request that the firm disclose details of its pro bono arrangement with the Trump administration, saying the firm's "three sentence letter essentially saying 'nothing to see here'" is "not going to cut it."

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Trump Again Targets Birthright Citizenship In 2 New Orders

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that seek to limit automatic citizenship for babies born in the U.S., after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous birthright citizenship executive order as unconstitutional.

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