'So What?': Albertsons Judge Skeptical Of Wash. Opioid Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state judge considering Albertsons' mid-trial motion to dismiss allegations it fueled the state's opioid epidemic told lawyers for the state Monday that while they might have shown the pharmacy chain failed to implement an adequate monitoring system, she's still skeptical the company's conduct actually caused the overdose crisis.

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Colo. Judge Certifies Class In Hospital Gender Care Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado state judge granted class certification in transgender adolescents' lawsuit seeking to have Children's Hospital Colorado resume providing gender-affirming medical care for them and other transgender youth patients.

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Merck Loses HHS Suit Over Medicare Drug Price Program

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge shot down Merck's challenge to the Inflation Reduction Act's Drug Price Negotiation Program on Monday, ruling that the pharmaceutical giant's voluntary participation in connected Medicare and Medicaid programs meant that its inclusion in the negotiation program doesn't constitute an unconstitutional taking.

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Ill. Won't Hold Religious Docs To 'Aid-In-Dying' Law, For Now

By Gianna Ferrarin

Illinois agreed not to force a group of religious healthcare providers to refer patients to "medical aid in dying" services, a form of care recently legalized by the state allowing certain terminally ill individuals to seek prescriptions for lethal medication to bring about their death.

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Feds Propose New $103K Fee For H-1B Visa Petitions

By Ganesh Setty

The Trump administration proposed a new rule Monday that would impose a roughly $103,000 fee for all H-1B visa petitions subject to government caps, separate from the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump announced last year via executive proclamation.

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CMS Must Revisit $57M Contract Over Conflicting Labor Hours

By Elaine Briseño

The Court of Federal Claims has ordered the reevaluation of a $57 million contract to process Medicare claims for equipment, finding the winning proposal had conflicting estimated labor hours that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not clarify.

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Judge Preserves, But Narrows, IP Verdict Against NuVasive

By Theresa Schliep

A Delaware federal judge on Monday kept in place much of a jury's infringement findings against NuVasive in a doctor's case against it over a group of spinal implant patents but found the jury's other infringement conclusions weren't supported by enough evidence.

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AIG Owes Primary Coverage For $4.7M Ambulance Crash Deal

By Hope Patti

An AIG unit owes primary coverage for a $4.75 million settlement of an underlying suit over an ambulance crash, a New Jersey federal court ruled, finding that a borough's coverage through a county joint insurance fund does not trigger an "other insurance" provision.

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DOJ Seeks To Beat UC Researchers' Challenge Of Grant Axings

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Justice argued on Friday that the Trump administration should prevail over University of California researchers' challenges of the termination of their grants, telling a California federal judge that the First Amendment doesn't apply to competitively awarded grants.

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DOJ Backs Biotech Co. Against Red Cross At 1st Circ.

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to back a biotech company that accuses the American Red Cross of blocking competition for blood platelet testing, telling the First Circuit the nonprofit is not part of the government and is not immune from the antitrust claims.

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Tribal Opioid Suits Against Sacklers Slated For $175M Exit

By Joyce Hanson

Dozens of Native American tribes have asked an Ohio federal court to dismiss their lawsuits against members of the Sackler family, which owns bankrupt opioid maker Purdue Pharma, based on a settlement agreement that will pay $175 million to the tribes over 16 years.

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DaVita, Patients Get Early Nod In $15M Data Breach Deal

By Hailey Konnath

A Colorado federal judge has given the initial green light to DaVita Inc.'s proposed $15 million settlement with millions of past and present patients who claim the healthcare company didn't adequately protect their personal information, which was exposed in an April 2025 breach, according to an order issued Friday.

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AdaptHealth Wins First OK For $14.3M NC Overbilling Deal

By Matthew Santoni

A North Carolina federal court has given its preliminary approval to a $14.3 million settlement of claims that Pennsylvania-based AdaptHealth Corp. overbilled patients for medical equipment they had returned to the company, according to court filings.

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NJ Court Rejects Senior Facility's Read On Nursing Home Law

By Gianna Ferrarin

A New Jersey appellate court on Monday upheld a nearly $1 million judgment against a senior care network, rejecting arguments that one of its facilities wasn't operating as a nursing home in its allegedly inadequate care for an elderly patient.

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DaVita Defeats Nurse Overtime Collective Bid

By Benjamin Morse

A Colorado federal judge refused to conditionally certify a 41-state collective of DaVita nurses and technicians who say the company denied them overtime by failing to pay for short rest breaks, finding too little evidence of a companywide practice.

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Health System Must Face Nurse's Meal Break Wage Suit

By MJ Koo

A Michigan federal court has refused to dismiss a proposed collective action brought by a nurse who alleged that Trinity Health Corp. failed to pay patient care workers for meal breaks regularly interrupted by patient care duties, finding that the complaint adequately alleges that the large Catholic health system qualifies as his employer under federal wage law.

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Biopharma Co. Brass Sued Over 'Channel Stuffing' Disclosures

By Katryna Perera

The top brass of pharmaceutical company ADMA Biologics Inc., among other things, failed to disclose certain related-party transactions the company engaged in and a channel-stuffing scheme to create the appearance of revenue, according to a shareholder derivative suit filed Monday.

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Humana Strikes Deal To Wrap Up Nurse's FLSA Suit

By David Aaro

Humana Inc. and a nurse who sued the health insurer in Georgia federal court for allegedly skimping on overtime pay have reached a deal to bring her proposed collective action to a close.

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3 Firms Build Biotech Merger With $150M In Private Funding

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Biopharmaceutical company Werewolf Therapeutics and clinical-stage biotechnology firm Ambros Therapeutics have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal built by three law firms, and includes $150 million in private funding.

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NC Dental Review Change Counters Tougher National Trend

North Carolina’s elimination of its prior review requirement for dental management agreements departs sharply from the national trend toward expanded corporate practice of medicine oversight, but stakeholders should not view this regulatory shift as a relaxation of compliance expectations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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