The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with the potential impact of reining in — or even scrapping altogether — a 100-year-old doctrine that curbs litigants' ability to go to federal court to try to overturn a state court loss.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with the potential impact of reining in — or even scrapping altogether — a 100-year-old doctrine that curbs litigants' ability to go to federal court to try to overturn a state court loss.
A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court struck down a ban on Medicaid funding for abortions, declaring Monday that the ban violates a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy under the state's constitution and illegally discriminates on the basis of sex.
An Oregon federal judge struck down Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to enforce the agency's restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, finding the restrictions unlawful and criticizing Kennedy's leadership and the policy declaration that introduced the changes.
Counsel for the family of a man who died of an opioid overdose at age 26 told a Philadelphia jury that his doctors were responsible for pushing treatment plans that allowed him to develop an opioid addiction, leading to his untimely death, pointing to both physicians being paid speakers for the pharmaceutical companies whose medications they prescribed.
A Pennsylvania state court has booted Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys from representing consumers in nine cases that link Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder to ovarian cancer, saying their pro hac vice admission was inappropriate given the firm's dealings with an attorney who previously represented the company.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it won't review a class certification challenge in a securities class action over Johnson & Johnson's cancer-related talc products in the latest development in a closely watched dispute over how courts evaluate class certification in shareholder suits.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the dismissal of a civil suit against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other former state officials over COVID-19-related deaths in nursing homes that allegedly stemmed from the state's controversial early pandemic policies.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Cornell University graduate student's petition trying to revive his malpractice suit against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP stemming from patent litigation against Illumina Inc. over DNA sequencing intellectual property.
A man accused of pocketing $12 million as a part of a larger $140 million scheme to defraud public and private healthcare programs can't get out of a second trial, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review his case on Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court won't review the Internal Revenue Service's rejection of a Texas doctor's claim to $1 million in tax deductions linked to his urgent care network's captive insurance company, the court said Monday.
President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that his administration would instruct federal agencies to accelerate investigations into new therapies derived from psychedelic drugs and streamline patients' access to the treatments.
A change of plea hearing scheduled Monday afternoon in the second federal corruption trial of former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos M. Diamantis never materialized, with the parties emerging from chambers and leaving a Bridgeport courthouse without a judge entering the courtroom or going on the record.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued an ex-investment advisory firm associate in Manhattan federal court on Monday, accusing him of using a close relative's brokerage account to trade ahead of market-moving announcements by three biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that his firm was researching.
A pending motion to dismiss the Michigan attorney general's drug-pricing case against multiple pharmacy benefit managers does not preclude the PBMs from handing over agreements between PBMs and pharmacies to the state, a federal judge said in a motion hearing Monday.
A 27-year-old pilot who claims an ophthalmology clinic destroyed his career after negligently clearing him for LASIK secured a $7.3 million judgment, after a Colorado judge found good cause to allow the award to go above the state's $1 million economic damages cap.
A special master overseeing discovery disputes in GlaxoSmithKline's infringement suits over Moderna's COVID-19 and related respiratory syncytial virus vaccines ordered both companies to furnish information to each other, including financial data and licenses, according to an opinion unsealed Monday.
Guardant Health Inc. urged a California federal judge on Monday to make Quinn Emanuel pay nearly $1.3 million on top of $3 million in sanctions already imposed over misrepresentations lawyers made representing its rival Natera Inc., prompting the judge to criticize Quinn Emanuel lawyers for making distinctions so fine they veer into misrepresentation.
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week delivered another mix of procedural rulings, fiduciary duty disputes and deal litigation, highlighting both the court's gatekeeping role and its continued focus on stockholder rights and transactional fairness.
Iris Telehealth was hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court Monday from a former human resources manager who alleged she was not given the opportunity to take paid leave and was later fired after suffering a miscarriage last summer.
A private equity-backed hospital management company can't tap into its $25 million excess professional liability insurance for several underlying lawsuits until it forks over its $5 million self-insured retention payment, National Fire & Marine Insurance told a Tennessee federal court.
Retirement plan participants have hit hospital system Providence Health & Services with a proposed class action accusing the Washington-based nonprofit of losing nearly $70 million in assets by sticking with an underperforming mutual fund that lagged behind similar investment options.
Blue Owl Capital agreed to pay $2.4 billion for healthcare-focused real estate investment trust Sila Realty Trust in a take-private deal announced Monday advised by Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Dechert LLP.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co. on Monday announced plans to acquire clinical-stage biotechnology company Kelonia Therapeutics, led by Goodwin Procter LLP, in a deal worth up to $7 billion.
Inspired Healthcare's unsecured creditors have urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to deny the company's bid to retain Reid Collins & Tsai LLP to help investigate the debtor's pre-Chapter 11 conduct, saying that task should fall to unsecured creditors instead.
The outlook for rural hospitals has grown more concerning, as recent policy and regulatory developments are decreasing hospital revenues and increasing the cost of uncompensated care, which may result in additional hospital closures, service reductions, or mergers and acquisitions, say Omur Celmanbet, Kristy Piccinini and Sabiha Quddus at FTI Consulting.
As litigation becomes a de facto substitute for the regulation of major technology platforms, with plaintiffs advancing claims under product liability, public nuisance and consumer protection laws, among others, courts are evaluating how platform systems operate in practice based on large-scale operational data, say attorneys at Brattle.
Several pending cases target the issue of whether generative AI may appropriately replace human professional decision-making, and though each case is still in discovery, the decisions thus far provide insurers with guidance on how courts may view these claims, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
Holland & Knight LLP has hired a litigation and dispute resolution partner, who is joining the firm after more than 10 years with Covington & Burling LLP, where she focused on white collar defense and investigations.
A Philadelphia judge overseeing the Zantac mass tort litigation against GlaxoSmithKline has once again denied a motion to recuse himself from the cases, claiming that his wife's affiliation with a firm representing a defendant in the litigation did not present a conflict that required him to step away.
Fox Rothschild LLP has hired Holland & Knight LLP's co-chair of the sports industry team in Washington, D.C., to work with entertainment and related sports law issues, the firm has announced.
A West Hollywood boutique law firm formed to represent victims of sex abuse on UCLA's campus has filed a professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty suit against Robert W. Wood and Wood LLP, claiming in California state court that their allegedly faulty financial advice caused the loss of $2 million in interest.
Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.
An Oregon federal judge on Tuesday allowed two environmental groups to intervene as plaintiffs in a consolidated suit filed by the state and one of its cities, which are challenging a proposed federal immigrant detention center planned to be built near an airport.
Ropes & Gray LLP has relocated its San Francisco office to the heart of the Financial District ahead of the firm's 25th anniversary in the City by the Bay.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has promoted a litigator who regularly handles commercial and securities disputes to managing member of its New York office, the firm announced Tuesday.
After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.
U.S. District Judge Alan D Albright is resigning after nearly eight years presiding over cases in the Western District of Texas, Law360 confirmed Tuesday.
