High Court Lets Block On Prison Gender Care Ban Stand

By Yeji Jesse Lee

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed federal prisons to continue to offer gender transition medical services to incarcerated people.

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Ill. Judge Questions Bid To Block 340B Drug Discount Law

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge seemed hesitant Wednesday to halt a state law barring drugmakers from trying to impose restrictions on pharmacies under contract with a federal drug pricing discount program, saying the state seems to be maximizing public health in an area the statute doesn't address.

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9th Circ. Judges Hint Hospital CBA May Mandate Arbitration

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit panel appeared receptive on Wednesday to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center's argument that a nurse should be forced to individually arbitrate proposed class break claims, with two judges suggesting that a union contract's repeated references to Golden State labor law bolster the hospital's position.

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4 Firms Steer Cencora's $2.4B American Oncology Acquisition

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Pharmaceutical distribution company Cencora unveiled plans Wednesday to acquire American Oncology Network Inc. in a deal that values the network at an enterprise value of $2.4 billion and was built by four law firms.

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PBM Fee Disclosure Rule Clears White House Review

By Kellie Mejdrich

A White House budget office has completed review of a rule from the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm that would require new fee disclosures from pharmacy benefit managers, which act as intermediaries between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers.

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Pa. Panel Sets 3-Year Limit On Minimum Wage Claims

By MJ Koo

A split Pennsylvania appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that workers have three years, not six, to sue for unpaid wages under the state's minimum wage law, siding with a pharmacy accused of shorting 20 employees on overtime pay.

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Amarin Ends 'Skinny Label' Patent Case Against Hikma

By Adam Lidgett

Amarin Pharma Inc. is dropping its patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label, months after the U.S. Supreme Court shut the case down.

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Intuitive Surgical Strikes $450M Deal In Robot Antitrust Suit

By Craig Clough

Intuitive Surgical said in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday that it reached a $450 million settlement to resolve a hospital class action alleging it monopolized the market for servicing its da Vinci surgical robots, subject to approval by a California federal judge.

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Linde Seeks $1.2M Clawback From Exec Who Joined Rival

By Aaron Keller

International industrial and healthcare gas supplier Linde PLC is seeking to recover more than $1.2 million in stock and performance rewards gains from Joseph H. Porto III, the onetime executive director of growth at Linde Gases U.S., after Porto allegedly left for a competitor.

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Reckitt Benckiser Denies Firing Manager For Whistleblowing

By Gina Kim

Reckitt Benckiser urged a New Jersey federal judge to end a former senior regulatory manager's suit alleging she was fired for raising product safety issues, arguing Tuesday she rejected a lateral transfer amid a global reorganization and unsuccessfully gambled the company would give in to her promotion and higher pay demands.

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SEIU Fired Organizer Over Military Leave, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

An SEIU organizer was subjected to intense scrutiny and ultimately fired for taking time off to fulfill her obligations as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, according to a new lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.

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Wachtell Lipton Guides Abbott Nutrition Spinoff

By Nate Beck

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided healthcare company Abbott in a plan to spin off its nutrition business into an independent, publicly traded company anchored by brands such as adult supplement Ensure and infant formula Similac.

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7 Firms Advise EQT, Qiagen On $12.1B Take-Private Deal

By Hailey Konnath

A long list of firms — including Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Linklaters LLP and Milbank LLP — are steering Sweden-based EQT Private Equity's $12.1 billion takeover of life sciences testing company Qiagen NV, according to a Wednesday announcement.

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Squire Patton Lands Akerman's Public Finance Co-Leader

By Rose Krebs

Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Wednesday that it has added the co-chair of Akerman LLP's public finance group to bolster its capacity to handle public finance, healthcare finance and other matters.

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The Law360 Pulse Leaderboard: A Look At The Top Firms

By Rachel Reimer

What makes a firm stand out in the ever-changing legal landscape? Here's a peek at the 2026 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — the firms that can demonstrate excellence on measures of prestige and the reach and capability of their legal practice.

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Watchdog Can Pursue Jackson Walker Fees, Judge Says

By Clara Geoghegan

The U.S. Trustee's Office has standing to pursue millions of dollars in fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP in cases assigned to a judge who was in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of the firm's ex-partners, a Texas bankruptcy court has concluded.

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6th Circ.'s Sutton Floats Class Action Limits At Judiciary Panel

By Jeff Overley

An influential federal judge is proposing new restrictions on class actions that aim to broadly block government policies, judiciary advisers heard at a Wednesday gathering, which also explored transparency ideas affecting legal finance and hard-to-access court records in the red-hot realm of immigration litigation.

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Ex-Employee Of Seyfarth Client Drops Suit Over Data Breach

By Craig Clough

A Texas woman who filed a proposed class action against Seyfarth Shaw LLP over a data hack voluntarily dropped the claims Tuesday without prejudice, according to a filing in Illinois federal court. 

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DOJ Moves To Remove Minn. Judges From Immigration Cases

By Britain Eakin

A top U.S. Department of Justice official has moved to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from immigration cases, arguing that interviews they gave to The New York Times about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts suggest they can't be impartial.

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FBI Says Fired Agents Acted in Politicized Manner

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Lawyers for the government argued in a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday that an unfair firing suit from two former FBI agents should be tossed because they worked in a politicized manner on the "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

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Sen. Blackburn Clears Path For Trump's Tenn. Court Nominee

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has returned her blue slip for a judicial nominee for the Eastern District of Tennessee after an apparent delay.

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​​​​​​​Mamdani Taps Top Judicial Adviser Amid New Ethics Reforms

By Andrea Keckley

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that he has appointed a lawyer from the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice to lead his judicial advisory committee as the mayor's office unveils new reforms to the city's judicial selection process.

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McCarter Beats Estate's Bid To Start $9.75M Interest Clock

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge has blocked a mall developer's family from filing a formal offer to settle a malpractice suit against McCarter & English LLP for $9.75 million, standing by a November 2025 decision to pause the case while similar litigation proceeds to trial.

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