Mead Johnson, Mom Clash On Formula Risks In Trial Closing

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal jury is set to begin deliberating Monday on a mother's claims that Mead Johnson is liable for her infant son's death, with attorneys making closing remarks Friday in the first test case to be tried among more than 800 consolidated lawsuits linking a deadly bowel condition to premature baby formula.

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Walmart Pays $50M To End DOJ's Suit Over Opioid Crisis

By Rae Ann Varona

Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the U.S. Department of Justice's nearly 6-year-old lawsuit in Delaware federal court alleging the big-box retailer helped spur the nationwide opioid crisis by unlawfully dispensing controlled drugs from its pharmacies, the department announced Friday.

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2nd Circ. Revives FCA Overpayment Suit Against Pharmacy

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Second Circuit panel on Friday undid a whistleblower's loss on False Claims Act allegations that AmerisourceBergen Corp.'s pharmacy business owes the government money for overpayments from federal healthcare programs for drug purchases and other services.

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Fla. Says PBMs Fixed Prices For Prescription Drugs

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's attorney general on Thursday sued two competing pharmacy benefit managers for allegedly colluding to fix prescription drug reimbursement rates to pharmacies, which the state said threatens Floridians' access to affordable medications.

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Analysis

Medical Marijuana Industry Grapples With DEA's New Role

By Sam Reisman

After years of allowing the state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry to operate without interference, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is stepping in to regulate a drug it once treated exclusively as contraband, but attorneys and regulators say the cannabis industry's interactions with the agency are off to a rocky start.

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Ex-Eli Lilly Rep Can't File Whistleblower Claims In NJ

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey federal judge on Friday dismissed a former Eli Lilly sales manager's suit alleging she was fired after objecting to pressure to promote off-label use of the diabetes drug Mounjaro, finding that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over the Indiana‑based drugmaker.

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NM Court Trims County's Bid For Inmate Settlement Coverage

By Eli Flesch

A New Mexico federal court rejected much of a county's suit against a mental health provider and its insurer in a dispute over whether they broke their indemnification duties by settling correctional facility inmate suits without also settling the county's claims.

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NJ Says TikTok Is Withholding Key Child Usage Data

By Carla Baranauckas

New Jersey urged a state judge to force TikTok to hand over detailed user engagement data the state said was essential in proving that the platform's design harmed children, accusing the company of months of evasive answers, shifting explanations and contradictory statements about whether the information even exists.

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Roundup

4 Arguments For Benefits Attys To Watch In September

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Fifth Circuit will weigh Louisiana's bid to block telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone, while the Fourth Circuit will hear Lockheed Martin's challenge to a trial court decision that kept a pension de-risking suit alive. Here's a look at these and other argument sessions that should be on benefits attorneys' radar next month.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate. 

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Minnesota Urges Justices To Reject Foster Parents' ICWA Bid

By Crystal Owens

The Minnesota Attorney General's Office said two foster parents' challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act is far from over, because even if they could clear a jurisdictional bar, the Supreme Court will likely remand the dispute and leave the couple's equal protection question to be litigated another day.

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Calif. Panel Upholds Win For Dentist In Fatal Trip-And-Fall Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The deletion of surveillance footage showing a woman's fatal trip and fall outside a California dentist's office was not spoliation, a state appeals court ruled Friday, calling the erasure unintentional while upholding a lower court's order ending the wrongful death lawsuit.

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Ind. Panel Affirms $3.5M Med Mal Verdict Over Amputated Leg

By Y. Peter Kang

An Indiana appellate panel on Friday upheld a $3.5 million verdict — later reduced to $1.25 million — in a suit accusing a doctor of negligently causing a patient's leg amputation, rejecting the doctor's argument that an alleged juror-tampering incident led to an unfair trial.

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Mylan, Lannett, Others Can't Split Up Humana Generics Trial

By Bryan Koenig

A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Friday to let Mylan, Lannett and other generic-drug makers split up Humana's looming price-fixing trial between liability and damages, preferring a single go in front of a single jury for the first trial in the sprawling multidistrict litigation.

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Brief

Colo. Hospital Worker's Overtime Suit Ends In Settlement

By Benjamin Morse

A former registration specialist for a Colorado hospital ended her overtime suit against the facility after accepting an offer of judgment to resolve her claims that it stiffed workers through meal-break deductions, time rounding and improperly calculated bonuses.

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Brief

Doctor Shorted Practice Co-Owner On Distributions, Suit Says

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado ophthalmologist failed to pay the co-owner of his practice the full distribution amounts owed to that physician while overpaying himself, according to a lawsuit filed in state court.

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Don't Miss It: Kirkland, Latham Steer Latest Hot Deals

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.

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McDermott Closing Health Policy Shop In DC

By Alison Knezevich

McDermott Will & Schulte is closing its healthcare lobbying and consulting shop after a dozen years in business.

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Feature

Rachael Rollins Pitches Scandal As Asset In Comeback Bid

By Taylor Bowie

Rachael Rollins rode a progressive wave to become Suffolk County's district attorney in 2019. After a scandal derailed her stint as Massachusetts U.S. attorney, she's trying to win her old DA post back, and leaning into her alleged ethical missteps as a resume boost.

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Calif. County Judges Recuse From Bias Suit Against DA's Office

By Patrick Hoff

The entire bench of a county court recused itself from a lawsuit alleging the San Francisco District Attorney's Office didn't take appropriate action when a Black employee reported a colleague's use of a racial slur, pushing the trial in the decade-old case to early October.

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'Exemplary Performance' Earns Google Users' Attys $146.8M

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Friday awarded plaintiffs' attorneys $146.8 million in fees after they secured a $425 million jury verdict against Google LLC in a privacy class action covering about 98 million people, calling the one-third fee award "extraordinary" but justified given their "exemplary performance."

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House Eyes Vote To Lock Supreme Court At 9 Justices

By Courtney Bublé

The House returns from recess on Monday, and its agenda could include a vote to keep the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices at nine.

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Trump Denied New Bid To Federalize Hush Money Prosecution

By Pete Brush

A New York federal judge on Friday again denied President Donald Trump's bid to move his criminal hush money conviction out of state court, finding as he did earlier that a federal law defense that Trump was operating in his official capacity would be meritless.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

KKR will pay a $250 million civil penalty to end allegations that it hid key documentation and entire transactions for merger notification. In the meantime, Apple told an Illinois federal judge that a recent Seventh Circuit decision affirming Samsung's win in a biometric privacy suit means the tech giant should prevail over similar claims. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge held that the U.S. Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the Trump administration.

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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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