NY Hospital To Pay $3M In Suit Over Retirement Plan Roster

By Grace Elletson

A Long Island hospital will pay $3 million to close a suit claiming it failed to trim pricey and underperforming investment funds from its retirement plan, costing workers millions of dollars in savings, according to a filing in New York federal court.

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Sangamo Ch. 11 Auction Nets $238M In Offers

By Clara Geoghegan

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday agreed to approve a trio of sales that will bring in $52 million in cash for Sangamo Therapeutics, after attorneys representing the life sciences group told the court a competitive Chapter 11 auction ended with four winning bids worth over $238 million.

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UnitedHealthcare Beats User's Data Privacy Suit, For Good

By Gina Kim

UnitedHealthcare Services Inc. permanently beat a proposed class action alleging that its website's third-party tracking pixels shared information about its visitors, after a California federal judge said Wednesday that "the mere collection of plaintiff's generic insurance browsing data is not enough to demonstrate" concrete injury.

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Insurer Can't Add McLaren Flint To Legionella Coverage Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan federal judge said an insurer cannot add a Michigan hospital's Flint-based subsidiary to a coverage dispute stemming from legionella contamination claims, ruling Thursday that the insurer missed an agreed-upon deadline and that adding a new defendant now would disrupt the case.

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DOJ Pot Shift Changes LA Licensing Challenge, 9th Circ. Told

By Sam Reisman

A California attorney who has challenged state and local cannabis licensing policies across the country on the grounds that they discriminate against out-of-state entrants told the Ninth Circuit that recent federal shifts on medical marijuana mean the dormant commerce clause should apply to the once-federally illicit industry.

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Rising Star: Alston & Bird's Emily McGowan

By Yeji Jesse Lee

Emily McGowan of Alston & Bird LLP has advised UnitedHealth Group's subsidiaries on several cases, including representing UnitedHealthcare in a complaint alleging that it violated the False Claims Act and representing OptumRx in opioid-related litigation, earning her a spot among the healthcare law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Judge Denies Bid To Move AT&T ERISA Case To State Court

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A California federal judge has denied a former AT&T employee's bid to move his class action suit alleging violations of state labor law over a tobacco surcharge on employee health plans from federal to state court.

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USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. 'Settled Expectations' Is Constitutional

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject Google's constitutional challenge to the office's "settled expectations" policy of taking the age of patents into account when deciding whether to review them, saying the rule is "eminently rational."

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Johns Hopkins Hit With Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

Johns Hopkins University was hit with a complaint in California federal court alleging it impaired a graduate student's educational access and retaliated against her after she returned from a pregnancy-related leave and accused her former adviser of sexual misconduct.

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Colo. Panel Says Pretrial Meeting Didn't Affect Med Mal Trial

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado state appeals court on Thursday rejected a man's bid for a new trial in his medical malpractice lawsuit in which jurors sided with his physicians, finding the man did not show that an ex parte meeting between defense counsel and his own surgeon affected the trial's outcome.

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Amgen Reaches Deal To End Ex-Worker's Tobacco Fee Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Biotech giant Amgen Inc. struck a deal to end a proposed class action alleging a $150-a-month fee on the health plans of employees who used tobacco violated federal benefits law, according to a filing in California federal court Thursday.

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Taco Bell Cyclospora Suit Frozen Amid Similar Cases

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge Thursday paused filings for a lawsuit alleging Taco Bell and produce supplier Taylor Farms distributed and served contaminated lettuce that caused multiple cyclospora infections.

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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.

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Canadian Bioscience Cos. Settle 'Fake' Fuel Trading Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado state judge agreed to issue a stay and administratively close a case brought by two Canadian bioscience companies alleging that a Denver resident defrauded them out of nearly $1 million through "fake" fuel trading deals, amid an undisclosed agreement reached between the parties.

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Elevance Health Gets Final OK On $14.75M Nurse OT Deal

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Virginia federal court granted final approval Thursday to a $14.75 million global settlement resolving five related suits against Elevance Health by nurses who accused the insurer of misclassifying them as exempt from overtime pay.

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Dentons Hires Longtime K&L Gates Healthcare Lawyer

By Jack Rodgers

Dentons has hired a K&L Gates LLP healthcare partner and office managing partner who spent more than 17 years at that firm advising pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and other life sciences clients on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters.

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DOJ Healthcare Declination Offers Self-Disclosure Checklist

The U.S. Department of Justice's declination of criminal charges against Campus Eye Management signals that its new self-disclosure policy provides a real path for healthcare companies to avoid criminal exposure, but that path is paved with speed, transparency and operational remediation, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

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Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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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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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Meta Atty 'Absolutely Wrong' On Client Privilege, Judge Warns

By Dorothy Atkins

With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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