The Second Circuit said Monday that a lower court had wrongly excluded plaintiffs experts from testifying about an alleged relationship between using Tylenol during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, although the panel cautioned that the decision was not political or scientific.
The Second Circuit said Monday that a lower court had wrongly excluded plaintiffs experts from testifying about an alleged relationship between using Tylenol during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, although the panel cautioned that the decision was not political or scientific.
Albertsons and Safeway ignored signs of problematic opioid prescriptions in Washington for years, an attorney for the state told a Seattle judge Monday during opening statements in a bench trial over allegations that the pharmacy chains failed to prevent the diversion of opioids that fueled the state's long-running overdose crisis.
A D.C. federal court declined to bar the Federal Trade Commission from pursuing a consumer protection suit in Texas against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, finding WPATH failed to show those proceedings threatened the court's injunction of a related investigation by the FTC.
A Missouri bankruptcy judge has told attorneys representing California the state can no longer press its data breach lawsuit against the reorganized 23andMe, finding the state court action is barred by the company's confirmed Chapter 11 plan.
A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action accusing Blue Shield of California of violating the federal Wiretap Act by installing Google and Meta tracking tools on its website, saying plaintiffs failed to allege that the health plan provider intercepted their highly sensitive health-related electronic communications.
Northwell Health defeated a proposed class action alleging it hid cuts to workers' pension plans when converting to a cash-balance plan in the late 1990s, with a New York federal judge finding the hospital system adequately disclosed how the change could impact participants' benefits.
A Utah federal judge tossed a suit by workers who claimed a western U.S. health system kept an underperforming stable value fund in a retirement plan and greenlighted excessive management fees, ruling their case lacks evidence that the plan could have secured better funds and fees.
A Connecticut state judge Monday denied a radiology doctor and medical group's attempt for quick wins on $5 million malpractice claims surrounding a former Waterbury Hospital nurse's missed cancer diagnosis, after attorneys for a local unit of bankrupt operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. bowed out of the case.
A group of parents suing the state of Michigan over the way newborn blood samples are collected and stored has asked a federal judge to revive its claims by citing recently decided U.S. Supreme Court precedent over the use of bulk cellphone data by police.
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is looking to nix its $390 million challenge to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over seven years of alleged unpaid contract support cost claims after the parties reached a settlement in the dispute.
The Michigan Nurses Association on Friday accused a southwestern Michigan hospital of violating the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by only giving three days' notice before shutting down and laying off nearly all its workforce.
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman did not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider her bid to save a suit against her fellow judges for suspending her from the bench over her refusal to undergo medical tests.
A Texas bankruptcy judge has recommended approval of nine settlements regarding legal fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP connected to a former firm partner's romantic relationship with a then-bankruptcy judge, with the firm agreeing to pay $4.79 million in total, including $1.4 million to the estate of J.C. Penney.
President Donald Trump's $10 billion suit against his own Internal Revenue Service and the resulting settlement deal lacked a legitimate controversy, given Trump's control over both the agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, a Florida district judge said Monday in an order barring Trump or others from citing the deal.
Wells Fargo will pay $50 million to settle a proposed class action alleging it knowingly helped a Las Vegas attorney run a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme deceiving investor victims into fronting money for borrowers awaiting personal injury settlement payouts, according to a preliminary approval order issued in Nevada federal court.
A Michigan-based mass tort law firm and a pair of affiliate firms are violating federal and Texas state laws through an artificial intelligence-generated telemarketing campaign meant to solicit clients, according to a putative class action filed in Texas federal court.
The Senate voted 46-44 Monday evening to confirm Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Arthur "Rob" Jones as a U.S. district judge to serve on the Southern District of Texas bench.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will still hold the confirmation hearing for Todd Blanche's nomination to be attorney general on Wednesday, despite the death of committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., over the weekend.
