A Wyoming judge has struck down three state laws restricting abortion care, finding that the state failed to demonstrate it had a compelling interest in effectuating a 48-hour waiting period for abortions and requiring certain abortion facilities to be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers, among other restrictions.
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Wyo. Judge Nixes 3 Abortion Care Limits As Unconstitutional

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Wyoming judge has struck down three state laws restricting abortion care, finding that the state failed to demonstrate it had a compelling interest in effectuating a 48-hour waiting period for abortions and requiring certain abortion facilities to be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers, among other restrictions.

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DOJ Says NY Court Can't Block Texas Trans Records Probe

By Gianna Ferrarin

The U.S. Department of Justice urged a New York federal court Monday to deny a request for an order barring the government from seeking transgender minor patients' medical records through a criminal subpoena issued by a Texas grand jury, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction.

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FTC Pulls OptumRx Insulin Price Case To Review Final Deal

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission's third and final settlement resolving an in-house case accusing pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes is in sight after the agency on Friday pulled from adjudication its allegations against UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s OptumRx to review a deal struck with staffers.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Ala. Judge Shopping Case Dismissed, But Docs Sealed For Year

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal judge indicated in a brief order Friday that an indictment has been dismissed against an attorney in a judge shopping case, but said the motion related to the dismissal will be kept under seal for a year.

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EEOC Strikes Tentative Deal To End Suit Over Ban On Beards

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and emergency services provider Global Medical Response told a Colorado federal court they've reached an agreement to resolve the agency's lawsuit alleging that the company's strict no-beard policy violated federal laws.

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Med Groups Slam HHS 'Red Herring' Bid To Fast-Track Appeal

By Lauren Berg

Medical groups who won an order halting the Trump administration's modified childhood vaccination schedule on Monday urged the First Circuit to ignore the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' "red herring" arguments for an expedited appeal, saying the agency has for months stalled the process.

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LITIGATION

Justices To Hear Whether Felony Cases Require 12 Jurors

By Elizabeth Daley

The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday and a request to waive fees for an appeal asking whether a Florida chiropractor convicted by a six-member jury of felonies for practicing with a suspended license should have had a 12-person jury under the Sixth and 14th amendments.

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Justices Decline To Hear Pa. Prison ADA Liability Challenge

By Parker Quinlan

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up Pennsylvania's petition to overturn a ruling finding it could possibly be held liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act in an incarcerated man's lawsuit alleging he was illegally denied access to proper medical care.

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Univ. Of Washington Beats Medical Prof's Bias Suit At Trial

By Ben Adlin

Jurors have cleared the University of Washington's medical school of liability in an anesthesiology professor's lawsuit alleging that she was unfairly ousted from a director role after complaining of discrimination and harassment, finding that the professor failed to sufficiently prove any of her three claims against the school.

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Hagens Berman Must Cover Fees After Misconduct Findings

By Adrian Cruz

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP must cover the fees and costs of a special master who alleged the firm committed misconduct in product liability litigation over the morning sickness drug thalidomide, a Pennsylvania federal judge has said.

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Cognizant, Infosys Can't Shield Execs From Depositions

By Elliot Weld

Infosys Ltd. and Cognizant TriZetto Software Group Inc. will each have to produce executives to speak on certain topics for depositions in a Texas federal lawsuit over claims that Infosys stole Cognizant's trade secrets to build a competing healthcare software, a special master ruled Monday.

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J&J Wants Talc MDL Tossed After Plaintiffs Withdraw Experts

By George Woolston

Johnson & Johnson urged a New Jersey federal court to toss all the pending cases in the sprawling multidistrict litigation alleging that its talc products caused ovarian cancer after the plaintiffs withdrew their two "marquee" experts on the link between the disease and talc use.

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Patient Says Botched C-Section Anesthesia Left Her In 'Agony'

By Lauren Berg

A woman who underwent a cesarean section to deliver her second baby at Forbes Regional Hospital outside Pittsburgh says the anesthesia was improperly administered, leaving her "screaming in agony" during the procedure while doctors did nothing, according to a lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court made public Monday.

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GEO Says Only ICE Controls NJ Detention Center Access

By Ganesh Setty

Private prison operator The GEO Group Inc. has told a New Jersey federal court it was wrongly sued over state health inspectors allegedly being blocked from fully accessing an immigration detention facility, arguing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exclusively controls access.

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Hospital Co. Says Ex-CEO Siphoned $14M For Personal Use

By Carolina Bolado

The former CEO of Healthcare Systems of America is facing a new lawsuit filed by several company entities in Florida state court that claims he used HSA as a personal piggy bank, transferring $14 million from corporate accounts to fund a lavish lifestyle.

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Psilocybin Home Access Wouldn't Alter Ore. Law, Court Told

By Jonathan Capriel

Allowing homebound patients to consume psilocybin at their residences would not fundamentally change an Oregon voter-approved program, licensed facilitators said Friday, urging a federal court to reject the state health authority's bid to end their disability bias lawsuit.

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Attys Want Up To $33M In Long-Running UBH Benefits Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Attorneys for employee benefit plan participants who sued to change how United Behavioral Health processed claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment asked a California federal court for up to $33 million in fees and expenses for their work on the "groundbreaking" case.

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DEALS

Abry Clinches $780M Continuation Fund For Health Tech Biz

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised private equity shop Abry Partners on Monday announced that it wrapped fundraising on a $780 million continuation vehicle, which will be used to further its partnership with healthcare technology company Centauri Health Solutions.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

A Decade Later, Escobar Is Still Shaping FCA Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision 10 years ago in Universal Health Services v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar changed the way in which lower courts evaluate False Claims Act cases — and the ruling remains vital in nearly every FCA case filed today, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

By Alison Knezevich

A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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Senate Rejects Bid To Block Fast-Track Immigration Appeals

By Courtney Bublé

A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.

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Georgia Atty Disbarred For Terror Threats, Intimidating Judge

By Emily Sawicki

A Georgia criminal defense and personal injury attorney serving a seven-year prison term for threatening and intimidating court personnel, including members of the district attorney's office and a Superior Court judge, was stripped of his state law license on Tuesday.

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Blanche To Go Before Senate Panel July 15

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aetna Inc.

Allegheny Health Network

Amazon.com Inc.

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Medical Response Inc.

Apple Inc.

Bollinger Shipyards Inc.

Brookdale Senior Living Inc.

CVS Health Corp.

Celgene Corp.

Centauri Health Solutions Inc.

City National Bank

Constellis Group Inc.

Evernorth Health Services

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Fluor Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

GSK PLC

Genentech Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Global Medical Response Inc.

Infosys Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

MedAllies Inc.

Medco Health Solutions Inc.

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York Civil Liberties Union

New York University

Optum Inc.

RELX PLC

Sanofi

Secure Exchange Solutions Inc.

Sikh Coalition

Steward Health Care System LLC

Supervalu Inc.

The Cigna Group

TriZetto Corp.

Trinity Industries Inc.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Universal Health Services Inc.

Unum Group

Wellpath

Zinc Health Services LLC

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Ashcraft & Gerel

Barnes & Thornburg

Berger Montague

Bondurant Mixson

Bradley Arant

Butler Prather

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Placitella

Cooley LLP

Cozen O'Connor

Croke Fairchild

Crowell & Moring

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dechert LLP

Epstein Becker

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goodkind & Florio

Gordon Rees

Gupta Wessler

Hagens Berman

Holland & Knight

Irell & Manella

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kell Alterman

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Law Offices of Paul Whitfield

Levine Lee

Lightfoot Franklin

Livelihood Law

Lynn Pinker

MacDonald Hoague

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

Melton Espy

Mike Scott Law

Munger Tolles

Nixon Peabody

Ogletree Deakins

Page Scrantom

Perkins Coie

Psych-Appeal Inc

Quinn Emanuel

Radford Scott LLP

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Rule Garza

Sidley Austin

Simmons Sweeney

Skadden Arps

Stris & Maher

Troutman

Wahid Vizcaino

Wheeler Trigg

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Zuckerman Spaeder

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Attorney General's Office

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

National Institutes of Health

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

Oregon Health Authority

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado