11th Circ. Panel Looks Split On Ga.'s Trans Prison Care Ban

By Chart Riggall

An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared divided Friday over whether to reverse a Georgia federal judge's order blocking the state from cutting off funding for transgender prisoners' hormone therapy, with one judge insisting that the state had de facto conceded the treatment was medically necessary.

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Texas Justices Toss Trans Youth Probe Suit As Moot

By Jonathan Capriel

Texas officials were freed from court orders blocking them from launching probes on parents thought to have provided certain gender-affirming care to their children, with the state high court on Friday calling the underlying litigation moot after the state closed the investigations and the teenagers became adults.

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Texas Panel Vacates $350K Unwanted Pregnancy Verdict

By Mike Curley

A Texas appeals court has vacated a $350,000 verdict in favor of a woman suing her OB-GYN for failing to sterilize her, saying precedent from the state's supreme court holds that noneconomic damages from an unwanted pregnancy are unavailable, regardless of how that pregnancy ends.

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Trump Admin Seeks Stay Of Vax Policy Suit Pending Appeal

By Julie Manganis

The Trump administration has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to press pause on a challenge to its new childhood vaccine schedule while it considers appealing the court's order blocking the changes, a request the plaintiffs called a delay tactic.

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Tenn. Abortion Ban Trial Taken Off Calendar Following Appeal

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Tennessee state court has canceled a trial scheduled to begin Monday over a suit challenging the state's abortion ban and seeking clarification on when a physician can legally terminate a high-risk pregnancy.

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Up Last At High Court: TPS, Geofence, Skinny Labels

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

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Brief

2 Plead Guilty Over Harvard Medical School Explosion

By Julie Manganis

Two Massachusetts men pled guilty Friday in Boston federal court to charges that they set off a commercial-grade firework inside a Harvard Medical School lab after a night of Halloween party-hopping last fall.

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Cigna Plan Members Say HIPAA Notice Backs Privacy Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A group of Cigna health plan participants who claimed the company failed to protect their private health information when it tracked their website activities told a Pennsylvania federal judge that the insurance giant should not be allowed to dodge new allegations that their HIPAA rights were violated.

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2nd Circ. Nixes Cigna Retirees' Bid For Added Discovery

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit refused to restart proceedings in a class action from Cigna retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, ruling Friday that a lower court was correct to hold that the ex-workers hadn't shown the insurer was disregarding orders to reform their retirement plan. 

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Brief

Disability Groups Back Psilocybin Home Access In Ore.

By Jonathan Capriel

The Oregon Health Authority's refusal to allow home-based psilocybin services for terminally ill patients who cannot travel violates federal law, a coalition of disability rights groups have told an Oregon federal court in a brief in favor of broadening the state's psilocybin access program.

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Blue Cross Licensee Seeks Exit From Claims Practices Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Blue Cross licensee told a Colorado federal judge that it has "no control" over Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's provider network and therefore shouldn't have to face a treatment facilities operator's suit alleging it violated federal benefits and mental health parity laws.

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Ex-Medical Co. Employee Sues For Whistleblower Retaliation

By Sarah Jarvis

Luminis Health Inc. has been sued by a former employee alleging the Maryland-based healthcare group fired him for blowing the whistle on billing fraud and discriminated against him because of his race.

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Natera Tells Justices CareDx Made Up Circ. Split In Petition

By Elliot Weld

Natera asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition from rival CareDx asking it to review a Third Circuit decision that erased a $45 million jury verdict stemming from CareDx's false advertising claims, saying Friday the circuit split that CareDx claims exists is "imagined."

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Atty In 'Maya' Case Isn't Owed $10M In Fees, Judge Told

By Carolina Bolado

An attorney for Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," told a Florida judge Friday that her former lawyer has no right to $9.9 million in attorney fees because the fee agreement between them is unenforceable.

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Merck's $6.7B Terns Deal Clears Regulatory Hurdle

By Al Barbarino

Merck has cleared a key regulatory hurdle in its plan to acquire clinical stage oncology company Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $6.7 billion, the pharmaceutical giant said Friday. 

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Paul Weiss

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Elon Musk's SpaceX strikes a deal with Cursor that could lead to an acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup, building products distributor QXO Inc. buys TopBuild Corp., and Eli Lilly & Co. acquires clinical-stage biotechnology company Kelonia Therapeutics.

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Court's HRSA Policy Reversal Leaves 340B Rules Murky

A D.C. federal court's recent decision in Premier v. U.S. Department of Health limits the Health Resources and Services Administration's ability to enforce long-standing Section 340B interpretations through subregulatory guidance, leaving open core statutory questions about purchasing models, inventory classification and program oversight, says Martha Cramer at Hooper Lundy.

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Steps To Consider As DOJ Launches Fraud Division

The establishment this month of the National Fraud Enforcement Division within the U.S. Department of Justice is a significant reorganization that suggests an increase in enforcement activity involving federally funded programs but leaves a number of important questions unanswered, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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DLA Piper Clears Vote To End Verein, Unify Leadership

By Tracey Read

DLA Piper announced Friday that firm partners on both sides of the Atlantic have "overwhelmingly approved" a plan to dissolve its Swiss verein structure effective May 1.

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Exclusive

Judge Albright Reflects On 8 Years Shaping Patent Law

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright will be walking away from the Western District of Texas at the end of the summer, ready to head back into patent litigation work. He talked with Law360 on Friday about the rockier elements of his judgeship and lessons he'll take into private practice.

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Wigdor Sanctioned For Lying In Leon Black Rape Case

By Ryan Boysen

Prominent victims rights law firm Wigdor LLP has been sanctioned for lying to a New York federal judge while pursuing a lawsuit that claims ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black raped a teenager provided to him by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI

By Matt Perez

An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.

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Akin Can't 'Recast' Appeal As Good-Faith Effort, 9th Circ. Told

By Lauren Berg

A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.

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Analysis

One Certainty As Tariff Refunds Start: 'There Will Be Litigation'

By Chris Villani

The launch of the refund process for tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court marks the start of lengthy and multifaceted court battles as companies fight with consumers — and amongst themselves — about who gets a slice of the $166 billion pie, experts told Law360.

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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 Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In what may be a first, a federal judge has ordered BJ's Wholesale Club to put an investor's climate-related proxy proposal up for a vote of the shareholders at the company's annual meeting. And a new study shows that more in-house counsel are staying in place despite pay increases slowing amid less competition for talent.

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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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