High Court Seeks Path To Limited Ruling On 'Skinny Labels'

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to craft new standards for deciding whether makers of generic drugs that use so-called skinny labels have encouraged others to infringe patents, with several justices saying existing law is sufficient to make a decision.

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Justices Rule NJ Info Demand Chilled Anti-Abortion Speech

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously revived an anti‑abortion pregnancy center network's constitutional challenge to a New Jersey subpoena seeking years of donor information, holding that the state's demand infringed free speech.

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5th Circ. Calls Firm's Bid To Arbitrate $70M Award 'A Stretch'

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel seemed dubious of a law firm's argument that a federal court lacked jurisdiction over a claim that it shuffled assets to avoid paying an arbitration award that totaled $70 million, saying Wednesday that the firm's argument was "a stretch."

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AbbVie Seeks Early Win Over HHS In Botox Drug Price Suit

By Mark Payne

When the federal government included Botox in Medicare's drug price negotiation program, which allows Medicare officials to negotiate for lower drug prices, it overstepped its authority, drugmaker AbbVie Inc. told a D.C. federal court, arguing the cosmetic drug and migraine treatment is a "plasma-derived" product ineligible for price controls.

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Squires Snubs 10 IPRs While 4 Pass Muster In Latest Order

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires rejected 10 petitions for America Invents Act patent reviews and granted four challenges in an order marking the roughly half-year mark since he took over the duty of making institution decisions.

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FTC Says Fla. Co. Destroyed Evidence In Fake ACA Suit

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge postponed a preliminary injunction hearing Wednesday for a company accused by the Federal Trade Commission of selling $91 million of fake Affordable Care Act plans, but ordered two siblings connected to the scheme to explain why they allegedly destroyed evidence in violation of a temporary restraining order.

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5th Circ. Will Rehear Aetna Arbitration Bid In Aramark Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The full Fifth Circuit will reconsider insurance company Aetna's bid to force uniform and food services company Aramark to arbitrate its dispute over employee health benefit claims, staying a panel's ruling from December that had kept proceedings in court.

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Wash. High Court To Review $230M Hospital Wage Suit Award

By Ben Adlin

Washington's highest court has agreed to consider hospital system Providence Health & Services' appeal of a $230 million judgment for workers who accused the provider of illegally adjusting their clock-in and clock-out times and failing to ensure they took required meal breaks.

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Bausch Balks At Suspected Tweak In Price-Fixing Deals

By Brian Steele

A stipulation between state attorneys general and private plaintiffs suing generic-drug makers for alleged price-fixing seems to reflect a change in the states' earlier deal to release claims against Bausch entities, the companies said in asking a Connecticut federal judge to maintain the status quo.

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Psych Facility Not Covered For Sexual Misconduct, Court Told

By Hope Patti

An insurer said it owes no coverage to a behavioral health facility in an underlying suit alleging that an employee carried out an inappropriate relationship with a patient, telling a Washington federal court Wednesday that the policy bars coverage for sexual misconduct.

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Feds Say Lack Of Injury Dooms Gold Card Program Challenge

By Tom Lotshaw

The Trump administration said a suit challenging the gold card visa program's legality must be thrown out because the immigrants and academic professionals union that filed it can't show the program hurts their chances at getting visas.

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Protest Over VA Hospital Bed Width Specs Rejected

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was justified in disqualifying hospital beds a healthcare equipment manufacturer offered as too narrow, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled, rejecting the manufacturer's position that some wiggle room was permissible.

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Dollar General Can't Kick Tobacco Fee Suit To Arbitration

By Patrick Hoff

Dollar General can't kibosh a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully charged employees who use tobacco nearly $500 more per year for health benefits, with a Tennessee federal judge ruling the company hadn't properly addressed how an exclusion in its arbitration agreement applied to the case.

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PBMs Say Michigan AG Price-Fixing Suit Is Unsound

By Susan Smiley

Pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts, Evernorth Health and Prime Therapeutics have bolstered their effort to escape a federal price-fixing suit brought against them by Michigan's attorney general by arguing the statutes cited in the complaint do not apply to them.

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Novo Nordisk Rejects Claim It Influences GLP-1 Market

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk told a Texas federal judge that it does not control the GLP-1 market and has not attempted to crush its competition in a bid to dismiss an antitrust suit it is facing.

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Deloitte Can't Duck Bulk Of Vax Software Theft Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Deloitte must face an inventor's trade secrets misappropriation claims accusing the consulting giant of ripping off her firm's proprietary vaccination management system and securing a multimillion-dollar government contract to track the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

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NC Nursing Home Settles Suit Over Meal Break Deductions

By MJ Koo

A nursing home operator and a former certified nursing assistant have agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging the company automatically deducted meal break time from workers' pay even when they worked through their breaks, according to a North Carolina federal court record.

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Mass. AG, Insurer Settle Deceptive Marketing Claims For $5M

By Julie Manganis

A Texas-headquartered health insurance agency will pay $5 million to settle allegations that it engaged in deceptive and unfair marketing to sell plans and other types of health programs to thousands of Massachusetts consumers, the state's attorney general announced on Wednesday.

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Medical Equipment Co. Settles Patient Overbilling Claims

By Matthew Santoni

Patients who claim Pennsylvania-based AdaptHealth Corp. overcharged them for returned medical equipment have reached the final version of a class settlement and will soon submit it to a North Carolina federal court for approval, they told the court this week.

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Ropes & Gray Guides Italy's Chiesi On $1.9B US Biotech Deal

By Al Barbarino

Chiesi Group said Wednesday it will acquire KalVista Pharmaceuticals in a deal valued at about $1.9 billion, expanding the Italian biopharmaceutical company's rare disease portfolio with a newly approved treatment for a rare hereditary swelling disorder. 

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Teva Acquires Tourette's Drugmaker For Up To $900M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Biopharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceuticals, advised by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, on Wednesday announced plans to acquire Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP-advised Emalex Biosciences for up to $900 million.

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Hogan Lovells Rehires Baker McKenzie Chair As Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Hogan Lovells has rehired an attorney who was most recently the chair of Baker McKenzie's U.S. healthcare and life sciences regulatory practice, who advises life sciences, food, consumer platform and technology companies.

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How To Gear Up For Trump's Pharma Tariffs

President Donald Trump's proclamation establishing tariffs on certain pharmaceutical products holds a few areas of ambiguity that companies should review and prepare for before the tariffs come into effect later this year, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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AG Watch: Texas Charts A Course On Investigative Authority

The Texas Supreme Court's recent decision in Texas v. PFLAG affirmed, and arguably expanded, the Texas attorney general's civil investigative demand authority, providing a road map that other courts evaluating state attorney general CIDs may find instructive, amid a lack of precedent, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

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Improving Well-Being In Law, 10 Years After Landmark Study

An important 2016 study revealed significant substance abuse and mental health issues among lawyers, and while the findings helped normalize the conversation around these topics, a decade later, structural change is still needed, says Denise Robinson at PLI.

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Comey Indictment Built On Bad Legal Foundation, Experts Say

By Phillip Bantz

The criminal indictment of former FBI Director James B. Comey over an alleged threat against President Donald Trump by way of a social media post of seashells appears to be based on either an outdated or flawed understanding of the legal standard required to prove the charges in the case, which could sink the prosecution, according to experts.

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GrayRobinson Faces More Suits Over 2025 Data Breach

By Adrian Cruz

After being hit with a proposed class action accusing GrayRobinson PA of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach, the Florida-based firm is now facing two further suits regarding the same incident.

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Justices Limit Voting Rights Act Suits While Voiding La. Map

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map containing two majority-Black voting districts Wednesday and further limited the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in legislative redistricting — a decision the dissent claims completes the conservative majority's "demolition" of the seminal civil rights law.

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Fla. Judge Pick Denies Conflict In Trump Defamation Case

By Courtney Bublé

A judicial nominee for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday denied there was any overlap between when he presided over a case involving President Donald Trump and when the White House let him know Trump was considering him for the federal judgeship.

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Judiciary Advisers Back Looser Limits On Defense Subpoenas

By Jeff Overley

A campaign by white collar defense lawyers against long-standing limits on subpoena powers cleared a key hurdle Wednesday when federal judiciary advisers endorsed earlier and easier access to potentially favorable evidence despite staunch resistance from crime victims' advocates.

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Former AG Bondi To Appear Before House Committee May 29

By Courtney Bublé

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear before the House oversight committee on May 29, committee Republicans said Wednesday.

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Nadine Menendez Denied Bail During Bribery Conviction Appeal

By George Woolston

A New York federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid from Nadine Menendez for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-senator husband, ruling that her motion doesn't raise a substantial question of law.

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