Trump Revives Push To Reduce Kids' Vaccine Schedule

By Dan McKay

Responding to a legal setback, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday recommending fewer vaccines for most children and calling on parents and doctors to space out the vaccines they do give.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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AbbVie, Novartis Seek To Block Ill. 340B Drug Discount Law

By Gianna Ferrarin

AbbVie Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals are urging an Illinois federal court to block a state law that took effect Friday barring pharmaceutical manufacturers from trying to impose restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy arrangements, arguing in a pair of suits that the law is unconstitutional.

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H.I.G. Can't Block Calif. Suit Over $17.5M Health Deal

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday refused to block two former behavioral health facility owners from pursuing a California securities fraud suit against private equity firm H.I.G. Capital LLC and its affiliates, finding the companies had not shown the dispute must be litigated in Delaware.

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9th Circ. Backs FDA's Denial Of Fruit-, Candy-Flavored Vapes

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's denial of Drip More LLC's applications to sell candy- and fruit-flavored vapes, saying the company didn't show those flavors provide an additional benefit to adult smokers that justifies the added risks that young people will use the products.

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Pharma Co. To Pay $46M Over Transplant Drug Kickbacks

By Sarah Jarvis

Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Inc. will enter a deferred prosecution agreement and pay more than $46 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations that the North Carolina-based drug manufacturer paid kickbacks to spur prescriptions and purchases of its kidney transplant immunosuppression drug Envarsus XR, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

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Tax Man Who Shaved Insurance Crook's Income Gets 2 Years

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge has sentenced a preparer of fraudulent tax returns to two years in prison after prosecutors said his cooperation against a client who operated a bribery-fueled insurance scam was marred by confusing proffers and altered records.

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Mass. Court Says Insurer Must Defend Doctor In Stalking Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that an insurance company must defend a doctor in disciplinary proceedings for allegedly stalking and harassing a patient to whom he prescribed an addictive medication for several years.

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Clinics' Suit Over Fund Use Ballot Measure Gets Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge tossed a suit that federally designated community health clinics filed to block the placement of an expenditure transparency reporting initiative on the November ballot, saying the clinics' claims aren't ripe for court review.

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Judge Trims BCBS Privacy Suit Over Public Site Data

By Celeste Bott

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association beat most claims in a proposed privacy class action Friday when an Illinois federal judge ruled that federal employees' searches for doctors, symptoms and medical conditions on its public website did not amount to protected health information.

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11th Circ. Affirms Ga. University System's Win In Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a win for the University System of Georgia in a disability discrimination case brought by a former respiratory therapy student who alleged he was improperly found to be endangering patients' safety and given a failing grade as punishment.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving merger settlements, contract claims, controlling stockholders, music rights, prejudgment interest, absentee voting and stockholder standing.

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ModivCare, Execs Must Face Suit Over Cash Flow Woes

By Katryna Perera

A Colorado federal judge has declined to toss a shareholder class action against patient transportation company ModivCare Inc. over its alleged failure to disclose the negative impact of certain contract renegotiations, finding that the investors pled actionable misstatements made by the company.

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8th Circ. Nixes Native American Worker's Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a clinical research institute's defeat of a lawsuit from a former manager who said she was laid off because she's Native American, siding with the institute's assertion that she was let go for budgetary reasons because her position was funded with internal money.

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Arkansas Medical System Escapes Target-Date 401(k) Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

An Arkansas federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class action alleging Arkansas medical system Washington Regional mismanaged the system's employee 401(k) plan, holding that allegations of underperforming investment funds weren't backed up with enough comparisons to better-performing ones to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.

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Alto Neuroscience Escapes Investor Drug Trial Suit, For Now

By Sydney Price

Alto Neuroscience has escaped a shareholder suit alleging the psychiatric biotech company and its top brass overstated the efficacy of their lead drug candidate for treating major depressive disorder, with a California federal judge ruling that the suit's "vague and conclusory" pleadings should be remedied.

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Welch Allyn, IRhythm Reach Deal To End Patent Dispute

By Adam Lidgett

Welch Allyn Inc. has entered a deal to bring a close to a lawsuit in Delaware federal court accusing iRhythm Technologies Inc. of infringing a series of heart monitor patents after iRhythm had its attempts to challenge some of those patents shot down.

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Northwestern To Pay $4M In COVID-Era Tuition Refunds

By Lauraann Wood

Northwestern University is set to pay $4 million to settle students' pursuit of refunds after the COVID-19 pandemic forced class instruction online, which the students alleged violated their agreement with the university.

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Jazz Pharma Buying Actio In Up To $1.32B Epilepsy Push

By Al Barbarino

Dublin-based Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC said Monday it will pay up to $1.32 billion for privately held Actio Biosciences, with Hogan Lovells Cadwalader advising Jazz and Cooley LLP guiding Actio. 

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3 Firms Guide Teledyne's $1.1B Varex Imaging Deal

By Al Barbarino

Teledyne Technologies Inc. said Monday it has agreed to purchase Varex Imaging Corp. in a deal valued at about $1.1 billion, with Latham & Watkins LLP and McGuireWoods LLP advising Teledyne and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP representing Varex.

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Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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