Meta Must Face Worker's Transgender Health Coverage Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Meta can't escape a transgender employee's lawsuit claiming the company's health plan unlawfully denied her coverage of gender-affirming surgeries, an Oregon federal judge ruled, rejecting the company's assertion that she hadn't adequately alleged the plan covered her desired procedures.

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Analysis

121-Year-Old Ruling Still A Shot In The Arm For Vax Mandates

By Chris Villani

Having already withstood five global pandemics, 21 presidencies and more than a century of developments in both the law and public health policy, the U.S. Supreme Court's most durable precedent blessing mandatory vaccination is well positioned to survive a new wave of challenges, experts say.

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NYC Health Center Sues HHS Over $31M Medicare Repayment

By Mark Payne

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is unlawfully attempting to recoup more than $31 million in Medicare overpayments made during the COVID-19 pandemic, a New York City skilled nursing center told a federal court, saying it shouldn't have to repay the money.

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Judge Says RFK Jr.-Tied Group Can't Join Childhood Vax Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge said an anti-vaccine advocacy group with ties to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cannot join a lawsuit over the federal government's new childhood vaccine schedule, a day after the government said it opposed the group intervening in the case.

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Analysis

Do H-1B Fee Waivers Exist In Practice? Attys Have Doubts

By Britain Eakin

More than five months after President Donald Trump rolled out a $100,000 fee for some H-1B petitions, immigration attorneys say the administration hasn't adjudicated fee exemption requests, leaving them uncertain about whether the waiver is merely notional.

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Minn. State Sens. Introduce Medical Psilocybin Bill

By Mike Curley

A pair of Minnesota state senators have introduced a bill to create and regulate a medical psilocybin use program, which would allow residents over 21 with qualifying medical conditions to cultivate and use the drug to treat their conditions.

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Brief

DOL Extends Comment Window On PBM Transparency Rule

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that the public will be given more time to comment on a new proposed rule that would require pharmacy benefit managers to disclose how much money they've received while serving as intermediaries between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers.

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Credit Bureaus Fight Bid To Add Plaintiffs, Claims To Suit

By Mark Payne

Medical providers and a collection agency in a proposed class action accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of conspiring to exclude less than $500 in medical debt from consumer credit reports lack good cause to again amend their complaint, the credit reporting agencies told a federal court. 

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3rd Circ. Preview: Janssen, Penn State Prof. Seek Relief

By Carla Baranauckas

A packed March argument calendar will put several high‑stakes disputes before the Third Circuit, including a billion‑dollar False Claims Act judgment and challenges at the intersection of academic freedom, DEI programming, cannabis‑sector finance and campus Title IX procedures.

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Roundup

6 Arguments Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In March

By Kellie Mejdrich

An ex-Wells Fargo worker will ask the Eighth Circuit to revive a suit challenging 401(k) forfeiture spending, the Trump administration will push the Ninth Circuit to greenlight its transgender health coverage policies and the Fourth Circuit will hear a severance fight from manufacturing plant workers. Here, Law360 looks at six oral argument sessions to watch out for in the coming month.

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Fed. Circ. Urged To Undo Attys' DQ In Patent Fight

By Elliot Weld

Two men listed as inventors on allergy test patents asked the Federal Circuit to vacate an order that disqualified attorneys who had represented the pair for almost four years in a case from a Maine physician who claimed he should be the sole inventor.

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Katten Pushes For Atty Immunity To Non-Clients' Suit In Texas

By Lynn LaRowe

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is asking the Texas Supreme Court to shut down a state court lawsuit brought by co-defendants of a client they successfully represented in a federal criminal investigation over alleged healthcare fraud, saying lower courts that refused to dismiss are seeking to limit the state's "hundred-year-old doctrine" of attorney immunity.

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Outdoor Pot Grower Can Keep Going During Okla. License Suit

By Mike Curley

An Oklahoma magistrate judge will let a cannabis cultivator continue its outdoor growing operations while it fights state officials over the revocation of its license, finding that the government's safety arguments are undermined by its own stated policy and actions.

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Recovery Provider Asks For Halt To Anthem's Claims Practices

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado mental health and substance use treatment facilities operator and its patients asked a Colorado federal judge to stop Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's claims practices, alleging its process violates federal benefits and mental health parity laws and disrupts access to lifesaving care.

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Ga. Court Says Eye Care Cos. Were Wrongly Lumped Together

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia appeals court has sent back to trial court a man's suit alleging medical negligence caused him to develop blindness in one eye after cataract surgery, saying the lower court wrongly found three defendants in the case were alter egos of one another.

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Colo. Orthodontist Says Co. Shifted Assets To Nix Her Profits

By Benjamin Morse

A Colorado orthodontist who helped build the orthodontics arm of a dental franchise network sued the company and several of its leaders in Colorado state court Friday, alleging they shifted franchise operations among affiliated entities to dilute her ownership stake and deny promised revenue.

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Emory Escapes Fired Worker's Race, Age Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

Emory University knocked out a lawsuit from a white former employee who said her race and age got her fired, with a federal judge ruling that she couldn't overcome the school's argument that she'd been terminated for accessing medical records without authorization.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Linklaters, Wilson Sonsini

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, French electric utility Engie acquires UK Power Networks, Gilead Sciences Inc. buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Arcellx Inc., and The Brink's Co. acquires NCR Atleos in a deal that unites two major companies in the ATM business.

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Latham, Sidley Advise Healthpeak Senior Housing Spinoff IPO

By Nate Beck

Following a carveout by parent Healthpeak Properties this year, Janus Living, a senior housing-focused real estate investment trust, filed with regulators Friday for an initial public offering advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Sidley Austin LLP. 

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Health Co.'s 'Success Story' Misstep Holds HIPAA Lessons

Cadia Healthcare Facilities' fall settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for improperly disclosing patients' protected health information in online success stories is an instructive example of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act risks that can arise from digital marketing efforts, say attorneys at Wood Rogers.

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Opinion

AI-Assisted Arbitration Needs Safeguards To Ensure Fairness

As tribunals and arbitral institutions increasingly use artificial intelligence tools in their decision-making processes, ​​​​​​​clear disclosure standards and procedural safeguards are necessary to ensure that efficiency gains do not erode the fairness principles on which arbitration depends, says Alexander Lima at Wesco International.

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DOJ Drops Law Firm Executive Order Appeals

By Alison Knezevich and Lauren Berg

The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that it is dropping its fight over executive orders targeting four law firms.

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Dems Probe Trump 'Fixer' In Kirkland Pro Bono Deal

By Lauren Berg

Top Democratic legislators who are investigating the legality of pro bono agreements some BigLaw firms made with President Donald Trump demanded Monday that Kirkland & Ellis LLP provide information about the involvement of Boris Epshteyn, whom the lawmakers called Trump's "legal fixer and co-conspirator to overturn the 2020 presidential election."

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Analysis

4 Things That Likely Sealed Fate Of SCOTUSblog Founder

By Jared Foretek

When 12 "guilty" verdicts were read aloud by the jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion and mortgage fraud trial last week, it was the culmination of a 16-day trial that took jurors deep into Goldstein's ultra high-stakes poker playing, his lavish lifestyle and his former law firm's accounting. Here, Law360 looks at four key pieces of evidence that likely moved jurors to their decision.

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Hagens Berman Denied Rehearing Bid In Sanctions Dispute

By Emma Cueto

The Third Circuit on Monday rejected plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's request to reconsider weighing in on the sanctions dispute in a since-dropped product liability case that resulted in the trial court judge referring the firm for possible criminal investigation.

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Ex-Atty Kossoff Axed From Bankruptcy Case Amid Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

A New York bankruptcy judge determined he has jurisdiction over litigation stemming from the collapse of real estate law firm Kossoff PLLC after its principal stole $14 million from its clients, finding the firm's founder may be dismissed as a defendant because the now imprisoned, disbarred lawyer "appears to be judgment-proof."

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Scientists Slam 'Political Attack' On Judges' Reference Book

By Lauren Berg

Partisan politics is interfering with a reference manual judges routinely rely on to understand complicated scientific evidence, according to more than two dozen contributors who on Monday raised the alarm about Republican attorneys general successfully lobbying for a chapter on climate change to be deleted.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket last week featured headline-grabbing disputes involving fast food giant Jack in the Box and boxing legend Mike Tyson's cannabis venture, alongside high-stakes fights over merger documents, appraisal rights and a $75 million renewable energy funding clash.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of February

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the second month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at Walmart, Walgreens and the Big 12 Conference. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from February.

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