5th Circ. Pauses Mail-Order Access To Abortion Pills

By Dan McKay

The Fifth Circuit on Friday reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion medication mifepristone, blocking mail-order access while a challenge to a Biden administration regulation brought by Louisiana officials moves forward.

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DOJ Asks 4th Circ. To Revive Children's Hospital Subpoena

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking the Fourth Circuit to reverse a district court order quashing its subpoena of transgender minor records from Children's National Hospital in Maryland, arguing that the patients' families — who sued to block the subpoena — lacked standing to bring a HIPAA challenge.

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Pharma Aims Torpedo At FCA After Bombshell 9th Circ. Ruling

By Jeff Overley

A burgeoning campaign against the False Claims Act's whistleblower mechanism is suddenly center stage at the Ninth Circuit, where pharmaceutical companies say a momentous new ruling "illustrates perfectly" the constitutional concerns of U.S. Supreme Court justices regarding FCA enforcement.

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Texas High Court Revives Delta-8 THC Restrictions

By Jonathan Capriel

The Lone Star State's health commissioner has the power to ban manufactured delta-8 THC goods, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, lifting a lower court's order that had allowed hemp companies to keep selling these products while they sued the state.

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Judge, Atty Get In Shouting Match At Fatal Overdose Trial

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Tensions boiled over in a Philadelphia courtroom Friday at the end of an emotionally fraught trial over a man's fatal opioid overdose, with a judge and lawyer shouting at each other about how to figure out an inconclusive verdict spurred by a seemingly confused juror.

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Analysis

Trump's Fixed-Price Contract Default Could Raise Gov't Costs

By Madeline Lyskawa

President Donald Trump's recent executive order making fixed-price contracts or contracts that tie profit to performance metrics the default for federal contracting could lead to costlier government procurement and less competition, in contrast to the administration's stated goals.

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Analysis

5 Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In May

By Kellie Mejdrich

HP, Siemens and Honeywell will defend victories in 401(k) forfeiture suits at the Ninth and Third circuits, while union pensioners will battle over life insurance and early retirement benefits at the Tenth and Seventh circuits. Here, Law360 looks at five coming oral argument sessions that benefits attorneys may want to keep an eye on.

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Mylan Inks $11M Deal With NC Over EpiPen Pricing

By Abigail Harrison

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Thursday that the state has inked an $11 million settlement with EpiPen distributor Mylan Pharmaceuticals, resolving claims of anticompetitive conduct and funneling millions back into public healthcare programs.

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Diagnostic Imaging Co. Pays $8.3M To End FCA Case

By Gina Kim

An Orange County medical scan company will pay $8.3 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to referring cardiologists to supervise positron emission tomography scans, California federal prosecutors said Friday. 

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NYDFS Fines Delta Dental $2.25M Over MOVEit Data Breach

By Allison Grande

Delta Dental has agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve the New York financial regulator's claims that the insurer maintained inadequate cybersecurity and breach response measures that enabled hackers to obtain access to files sent through the MOVEit transfer tool containing its customers' personal information. 

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Brief

Ex-Budget Official's Sentencing Set Before 2nd Bribery Trial

By Aaron Keller

Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis will be sentenced in a school construction bribery case before being tried on bribery charges involving a healthcare audit, a federal judge has ruled.

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Humana Investor Suit Largely Survives Dismissal Bid

By Emilie Ruscoe

Health insurer Humana can't shed proposed class action claims it misled investors about the financial impact it would see from pent-up demand for healthcare deferred amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Delaware federal judge has determined.

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Hospitals Say HHS Is Withholding Safety Net Reimbursements

By Brian Steele

For more than 20 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has failed to pay tens of millions in reimbursements to hospitals serving low-income populations by incorrectly factoring service days for patients enrolled in Medicare Part C, a coalition of 91 medical centers claimed in a D.C. federal lawsuit.

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Med Groups Say HHS Stalling Challenge To Vax Changes

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday rejected the government's request to pause discovery in a challenge by medical groups to the Trump administration's new childhood vaccination schedule while it appeals his March order blocking the changes.

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Medical Practice's Assets Targeted After $49M Verdict

By Brian Steele

The Westchester Medical Group PC has only disclosed $2 million worth of insurance against a $49 million malpractice verdict that could nearly double during an expected appeal, a Connecticut cancer patient and her husband said in seeking to secure the defendant's property and other assets now.

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Benefits Co. Inks $3M Deal To End Worker's Tobacco Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

A benefits and claims administration company will pay $3 million to end an employee's proposed class action alleging a tobacco fee on her health plan violated federal benefits law, according to the terms of the proposed deal filed in Tennessee federal court Friday.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Calif. Sued Over Ballot Measure For Health Clinic Fund Use

By Gina Kim

Federally designated community health clinics that serve vulnerable populations sued the California secretary of state and a union to keep an initiative off the November 2026 ballot that would control their budgets and expenditures, warning it could lead to shutdowns, disrupt patients' access to services and have other devastating consequences.

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Sidley, Goodwin Lead $1.1B Take-Private Deal For Esperion

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Biopharmaceutical company Esperion Therapeutics, advised by Goodwin Procter LLP, on Friday announced plans to go private after being bought by Sidley Austin LLP-led healthcare-focused investment firm Archimed in a $1.1 billion deal.

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Nelson Mullins Hires Career Faegre Drinker Pharma Trial Atty

By Jack Rodgers

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has expanded its bench of trial attorneys with a lawyer who represents pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability, consumer fraud and class action matters.

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Previewing FDA Preapproval Access In Psychedelics EO

The second of two pathways for psychedelic drug access outlined in President Donald Trump's recent executive order constitutes an unprecedented expansion of the Right to Try Act, which could fundamentally alter the psychedelic access landscape while presenting significant regulatory, operational and legal challenges, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

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Calif. Case Raises Questions For Medical Practice Investors

The California attorney general's amicus brief in Art Center v. WCE and the California Medical Association's response highlight how the California appeals court's ruling could significantly affect the structure and enforceability of succession arrangements in medical practice ownership, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Q&A

How Paul Clement Does It All

By Katie Buehler

For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers. 

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Don't 'Throw' Young Attys Under Bus, Judge Warns Musk Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.

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Whistleblower Says DOJ Rushed SPLC Indictment

By Courtney Bublé

A whistleblower has come forward to say a top U.S. Department of Justice official ordered prosecutors in Alabama to "rush" the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the viability of the case, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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California High Court Rejects Dunn's Bid To Nix Suspension

By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a California State Bar decision to impose a one-year stayed suspension on former State Bar executive Joseph Dunn.

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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.

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Analysis

SEC's Corp. Governance Shift Puts Onus On States, Cos.

By Sarah Jarvis

Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.

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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A pair of proxy advisory firms have sued two state attorneys general over laws they say impose burdensome requirements for issuing recommendations that go against corporate managers' wishes. Meanwhile, KPMG reports that legal is evolving into a key driver of business performance, and AI is a core component of the department. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of April

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Intel, Colgate and Tripadvisor. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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