Wyoming's Latest Near-Total Abortion Ban Blocked

By Lauren Berg

A Wyoming judge has blocked enforcement of the latest effort by state lawmakers to enact a rigid anti-abortion law, after the Wyoming Supreme Court in January struck down the state's previous near-total ban on abortion. 

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North Dakota Drug-Pricing Law Blocked In Pharma Fight

By Hailey Konnath

A North Dakota federal judge on Monday blocked the state's new drug-pricing law, agreeing with pharmaceutical companies that while the law purports to "protect the underdogs," it illegally interferes with the federal drug-pricing regime.

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What To Watch As Justices Take On 'Skinny Label' Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether to permit a patent suit over a generic heart drug using a so-called skinny label, a case with ramifications for the drug industry that could shape patent disputes more broadly and other legal areas. Here's what to watch for.

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'General Hospital' Actor Can't Revive Vax Suit Against ABC

By Gina Kim

California appellate justices refused to reinstate a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging ABC fired him for his political views after he declined to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine policy, ruling the evidence shows that the ultimate decision-makers who ended his employment agreement didn't know about his political views.

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Attys, Advocates Call DOJ Pot Rule Historic Shift For Feds

By Mike Curley

Legal strategies are evolving quickly in the wake of last week's "historic" rescheduling of state-legal medical cannabis, as a group of attorneys and advocates gathered Monday to evaluate the trade-offs of dispensaries now being able to register like pharmacies with the feds and the potential effect on industry investments and trade.

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4th Circ. Says Medicaid Fraud Convictions Lacked Evidence

By Mark Payne

The government failed to prove the former owner of a mental health counseling company in Virginia willfully committed fraud by falsely billing Medicaid $200,000 for counseling services on two specific dates, a panel of the Fourth Circuit has found, overturning his convictions.

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Convicted Pa. Dentist Says Feds Failed To Prove Fraud

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania dentist convicted along with his brother for using their dental practice to defraud Medicare, install unapproved dental implants in patients, and falsify visas to recruit foreign workers has asked a federal judge for acquittal or a new trial, arguing the government failed to show he committed any crimes.

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ER Docs Urge Justices To Back 5th Circ. Revival Of BCBS Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Emergency room doctors urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday not to disturb a Fifth Circuit decision reviving their insurance reimbursement dispute against Blue Cross Blue Shield involving out-of-network claims from employee benefit plans, arguing the appellate court correctly restarted proceedings in the case.

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DOJ Says Wash. 340B Drug Law Is Preempted In Novartis Suit

By Ben Adlin

The U.S. Department of Justice waded into a dispute between pharmaceutical giants and the state of Washington on Monday, arguing that federal law preempts a new state law that expands discounts that drugmakers must provide under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.

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Ex-Federal Workers Seek Reinstatement In Md. Federal Court

By Emily Brill

The Trump administration disguised ideologically motivated firings as routine layoffs, then pushed workers into a broken system to challenge their discharges, a group of laid-off federal workers alleged, asking a Maryland federal judge to deem the layoffs unconstitutional and reinstate the workers to their former positions.

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IQVIA Accuses Ex-Execs, Syneos Of Poaching $180M Client

By Abigail Harrison

IQVIA Holdings Inc. is accusing former executives of defecting to a competitor in the clinical research organization industry and initiating a corporate raid that resulted in the loss of one customer worth at least $180 million, according to a lawsuit filed in North Carolina Business Court.

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Medical Group Says Secret Call Could Upend Estate's Verdict

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut anesthesiology group has asked a state appeals court to reverse its portion of a $20 million wrongful death verdict, saying a lower court judge should have allowed into evidence a secret phone recording of a surgeon, used different verdict forms and blocked testimony from an allegedly unqualified witness.

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Nursing Home Hit With Wage Suit Over Meal, OT Pay

By Melanie Dorsey

Two former caregivers have hit a Michigan assisted living and memory care facility with a proposed collective action, alleging the facility failed to properly pay overtime by requiring hourly employees to work through unpaid meal breaks and excluding bonuses from overtime calculations. 

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Cannabis Co. Can't Shift Atty AI Sanctions To Rival Company

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida federal judge will not force a medical marijuana company to accept liability for sanctions incurred by its in-house counsel over the misuse of generative artificial intelligence, rejecting a rival company's arguments that the lawyer previously avoided monetary sanctions for filing errors and was likely to do so again.

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US, Indian Firms Guide $11.75B Sun Pharma-Organon Deal

By Al Barbarino

Indian pharmaceutical giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based Organon & Co. in an all-cash deal valued at $11.75 billion, with each side of the transaction having representation from one U.S. and one Indian law firm.

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Ropes & Gray, Cooley Lead Lilly's $2.3B Cancer Drug Buy

By Al Barbarino

Eli Lilly and Co. said Monday it will acquire privately held Ajax Therapeutics in a deal worth up to $2.3 billion, as the drugmaker looks to expand its pipeline of treatments for blood cancers.

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4 Firms Build Astorg's $1.1B Microbiology Biz Buy

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Life sciences company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. on Monday announced plans to sell its microbiology business to European private equity firm Astorg in an over $1.1 billion deal steered by four law firms.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Alum Returns After 5 Years With DOJ

By Gina Kim

A former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney is returning to the firm after five years in the public sector working for the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division, where he prosecuted high-profile insider trading cases and secured convictions for two former Merrill Lynch traders accused of manipulating the precious metals market.

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High Court 'Skinny Label' Case Will Matter To Tech Litigators

Hikma v. Amarin, set for oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, has potential to affect not just generic drug label-based evidence in patent cases, but also how technology inducement cases are presented and proven, says attorney Abdul Abdullahi.

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How The Coming Months Will Shape State Drug Price Boards

The future of state prescription drug affordability boards may be determined in the next few months, between an upcoming court decision in a challenge against state authority to set drug prices, and pending state decisions about whether to use federal Medicare maximum fair prices as reference, say Michael Kolber, Steven Chen and Kelechi Ezealaji at Manatt.

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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures

By Adrian Cruz

GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.

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Judge Publicly Scolds 'Disgraced' Ex-Prosecutor For AI Errors

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina federal judge has eviscerated a former federal prosecutor in a public reprimand for his use of artificial intelligence to draft a response brief that was riddled with hallucinations, calling out the prosecutor's "lack of candor" and saying he "disgraced not only himself, but also the entire office he formerly served."

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Comey Indicted Again As Feds Call Seashell Message 'Threat'

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI director James Comey was again indicted Tuesday by the Trump administration, this time over a social media post last year of an image of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to form the message "86 47," which prosecutors characterized as a threat of violence against the president.

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Maurene Comey Can Sue DOJ Over Firing, Judge Rules

By Phillip Bantz

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey can move forward with her lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration fired her because she is the daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump's perceived enemy James B. Comey, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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ADT Blasts 'Speculative' Bid To DQ Ogletree From Bias Case

By Gina Kim

ADT LLC urged a Georgia federal judge on Monday to reject an attorney's motion to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending it against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit, arguing the two matters are wholly separate and unrelated so there's no conflict. 

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Nadine Menendez Says Feds Need To 'Look Into The Mirror'

By George Woolston

Nadine Menendez dug into her bid for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-politician husband, telling a New York federal court that prosecutors refuse to own up to their handling of the "forced withdrawal" of her counsel.

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Teleflex Settles Catheter Patent Case Against Medtronic

By Elliot Weld

Medical device company Teleflex and Medtronic have reached a settlement to end a catheter patent dispute from which a judge recused himself after explaining he was "at a loss" on how to proceed.

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