A Wyoming judge has blocked enforcement of the latest effort by state lawmakers to enact a rigid anti-abortion law, after the Wyoming Supreme Court in January struck down the state's previous near-total ban on abortion.
A Wyoming judge has blocked enforcement of the latest effort by state lawmakers to enact a rigid anti-abortion law, after the Wyoming Supreme Court in January struck down the state's previous near-total ban on abortion.
A North Dakota federal judge on Monday blocked the state's new drug-pricing law, agreeing with pharmaceutical companies that while the law purports to "protect the underdogs," it illegally interferes with the federal drug-pricing regime.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether to permit a patent suit over a generic heart drug using a so-called skinny label, a case with ramifications for the drug industry that could shape patent disputes more broadly and other legal areas. Here's what to watch for.
California appellate justices refused to reinstate a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging ABC fired him for his political views after he declined to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine policy, ruling the evidence shows that the ultimate decision-makers who ended his employment agreement didn't know about his political views.
Legal strategies are evolving quickly in the wake of last week's "historic" rescheduling of state-legal medical cannabis, as a group of attorneys and advocates gathered Monday to evaluate the trade-offs of dispensaries now being able to register like pharmacies with the feds and the potential effect on industry investments and trade.
The government failed to prove the former owner of a mental health counseling company in Virginia willfully committed fraud by falsely billing Medicaid $200,000 for counseling services on two specific dates, a panel of the Fourth Circuit has found, overturning his convictions.
A Pennsylvania dentist convicted along with his brother for using their dental practice to defraud Medicare, install unapproved dental implants in patients, and falsify visas to recruit foreign workers has asked a federal judge for acquittal or a new trial, arguing the government failed to show he committed any crimes.
Emergency room doctors urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday not to disturb a Fifth Circuit decision reviving their insurance reimbursement dispute against Blue Cross Blue Shield involving out-of-network claims from employee benefit plans, arguing the appellate court correctly restarted proceedings in the case.
The U.S. Department of Justice waded into a dispute between pharmaceutical giants and the state of Washington on Monday, arguing that federal law preempts a new state law that expands discounts that drugmakers must provide under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.
The Trump administration disguised ideologically motivated firings as routine layoffs, then pushed workers into a broken system to challenge their discharges, a group of laid-off federal workers alleged, asking a Maryland federal judge to deem the layoffs unconstitutional and reinstate the workers to their former positions.
IQVIA Holdings Inc. is accusing former executives of defecting to a competitor in the clinical research organization industry and initiating a corporate raid that resulted in the loss of one customer worth at least $180 million, according to a lawsuit filed in North Carolina Business Court.
A Connecticut anesthesiology group has asked a state appeals court to reverse its portion of a $20 million wrongful death verdict, saying a lower court judge should have allowed into evidence a secret phone recording of a surgeon, used different verdict forms and blocked testimony from an allegedly unqualified witness.
Two former caregivers have hit a Michigan assisted living and memory care facility with a proposed collective action, alleging the facility failed to properly pay overtime by requiring hourly employees to work through unpaid meal breaks and excluding bonuses from overtime calculations.
A Florida federal judge will not force a medical marijuana company to accept liability for sanctions incurred by its in-house counsel over the misuse of generative artificial intelligence, rejecting a rival company's arguments that the lawyer previously avoided monetary sanctions for filing errors and was likely to do so again.
Indian pharmaceutical giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based Organon & Co. in an all-cash deal valued at $11.75 billion, with each side of the transaction having representation from one U.S. and one Indian law firm.
Eli Lilly and Co. said Monday it will acquire privately held Ajax Therapeutics in a deal worth up to $2.3 billion, as the drugmaker looks to expand its pipeline of treatments for blood cancers.
Life sciences company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. on Monday announced plans to sell its microbiology business to European private equity firm Astorg in an over $1.1 billion deal steered by four law firms.
A former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney is returning to the firm after five years in the public sector working for the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division, where he prosecuted high-profile insider trading cases and secured convictions for two former Merrill Lynch traders accused of manipulating the precious metals market.
Hikma v. Amarin, set for oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, has potential to affect not just generic drug label-based evidence in patent cases, but also how technology inducement cases are presented and proven, says attorney Abdul Abdullahi.
The future of state prescription drug affordability boards may be determined in the next few months, between an upcoming court decision in a challenge against state authority to set drug prices, and pending state decisions about whether to use federal Medicare maximum fair prices as reference, say Michael Kolber, Steven Chen and Kelechi Ezealaji at Manatt.
The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.
For the second time in a year, a judicial nominee for a Florida federal court is under scrutiny for allegedly presiding over a state level case involving President Donald Trump while being considered for a federal judgeship.
Reed Smith LLP and two of its partners are facing a $262 million lawsuit in a long-running and bitter dispute over ownership of an international gas shipping company, as well as other issues that remain unresolved following the vacatur of an underlying $102 million arbitral award for fraud.
The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.
A defense strategy to fast-track the trial in a yearslong criminal foreign bribery case against a Mexican businessman in Texas appeared to backfire when he was convicted and sent to prison last year, but the gamble ultimately paid off when a judge permanently tossed the case earlier this month.
A Second Circuit judge said Monday that he is having a "hard time" understanding how the firing of a LVMH lawyer wasn't connected to her earlier harassment allegations, indicating a willingness to revive retaliation claims against the luxury goods giant.
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.
