Texas Judge Rejects Bid To Block Kenvue's $398M Dividend

By Jonathan Capriel

Texas can't stop the makers of Tylenol from marketing the drug as safe for children and pregnant women or halt a nearly $400 million payment to shareholders, a state court ruled on Friday, rejecting arguments by Attorney General Ken Paxton's motion.

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Amazon Blasts Claim It Destroyed Evidence In Labeling Suit

By Ben Adlin

Amazon.com Services LLC is fighting calls for sanctions in a proposed class action accusing it of failing to follow federal labeling laws for dietary supplements, saying it shouldn't be penalized for allegedly failing to preserve online product pages for the supplements.

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DOJ Official Among Trump Picks For District Courts

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced judicial nominees for federal courts in Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri on Friday, including a current U.S. Department of Justice official.

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MVP: Reese Marketos' Andrew Wirmani

By Yeji Jesse Lee

Andrew Wirmani of Reese Marketos LLP's healthcare practice helped shepherd a record False Claims Act win against Janssen Products and secured a $100 million settlement with nursing home pharmacy services provider PharMerica, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.

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ITC To Scrutinize Redesigned Apple Watch In Masimo IP Fight

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Friday that it would review whether redesigned Apple Watches violate a previous order that briefly blocked imports of the devices deemed to infringe a pair of patents owned by Masimo, which urged the ITC to scrutinize the modified products.

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Fla. Pharmacy To Pay $17M To Settle COVID False Claims Case

By Jared Foretek

A Tampa, Florida, pharmacy has agreed to pay over $17 million to settle allegations that it knowingly filed false Medicare claims for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests that hadn't gone out to recipients.

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Horizon BCBS To Pay $100M To End NJ AG's Overcharge Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has agreed to pay the state $100 million to resolve allegations that it fraudulently secured a multibillion-dollar contract to administer public employee health plans and then systematically overcharged taxpayers for years, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Friday.

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Ohio Panel Revives Brain Injury Suit Tossed As Untimely

By Mike Curley

An Ohio appeals court on Friday reinstated a woman's medical malpractice claim alleging she suffered a brain injury as a result of a failed intubation, saying the trial court was too hasty in determining that her claims were filed outside the state's one-year statute of limitations.

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Drug Buyers Defend Class Cert. In 3rd Circ. Generics Case

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Direct purchasers and end-payers in the sprawling multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing of generic drugs are fighting requests from Actavis and Mylan to undo class certification in the cases, arguing to the Third Circuit that the litigation is a classic example of a class action matter.

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Ethiopian Importer Asks Court To Enforce $5M Arbitration Win

By Joyce Hanson

An Ethiopian import company has asked a California federal court to enforce a $5.3 million arbitral award against a medical supply company following a dispute over a botched contract.

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Richards Layton Seeks $36M In Home-Health Poaching Case

By Jarek Rutz

Richards Layton & Finger PA asked the Delaware Chancery Court to award $36.04 million in attorneys' fees and expenses following a poaching case involving home health and hospice companies, arguing that the defendants' pervasive bad-faith conduct requires full fee-shifting under the court's 2024 posttrial ruling.

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10th Circ. Sides With Rehab Facility In Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Tenth Circuit refused Friday to reopen an occupational therapist's lawsuit claiming she was unceremoniously let go by a Kansas rehabilitation clinic for reporting a colleague's inappropriate behavior toward women, saying she couldn't revive her suit using arguments the trial court never considered.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Wachtell, Paul Hastings, Sidley

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Pfizer Inc. completes its acquisition of obesity drug developer Metsera Inc., motion and controls technologies company Parker-Hannifin Corp. acquires Filtration Group Corp., and fund administrator JTC PLC backs a cash offer in the billions from British private equity shop Permira.

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Gibson Dunn, Cooley Guide Merck's $9.2B Cidara Buy

By Al Barbarino

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP-advised Merck on Friday said it will broaden its respiratory portfolio with a $9.2 billion deal to buy Cooley LLP-led Cidara Therapeutics, betting that an investigational antiviral could help the company tackle the global health burden of seasonal influenza.

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Prison Body Cams Raise Health Privacy Compliance Issues

The increasing use of prison staff body cameras to enhance transparency and safety presents correctional healthcare partners with new risk management questions where they must carefully reconcile the benefits of surveillance with the imperative to protect patient privacy, say attorneys at Gordon Rees.

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Lawyers Call On High Court To Stop 'Capitulating' To Trump

By Katie Buehler

Lawyers and legal advocates gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday to protest rulings that have allowed President Donald Trump and his administration to implement allegedly "unlawful actions" amid legal battles, and to demand the justices act as a check on executive power in future cases.

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Frequent DEI Foe Takes Aim At Mich. Law Firm's Scholarships

By Madison Arnold

American Alliance for Equal Rights, a group known for challenging diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships, has set its sights on Michigan personal injury firm Buckfire & Buckfire PC for alleged discrimination via the firm's scholarship programs for minorities.

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How To Kill A Person: A Legal Battle Over Execution Methods

By Marco Poggio

As botched executions pile up and states reach for untested methods like nitrogen hypoxia, prisoners are turning to the courts for a say in how they will die — and are being met with a legal framework stacked against finding execution methods unconstitutional.

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Buchalter Won't Be Sanctioned For 'Hallucinated' AI Citations

By Rose Krebs

An Oregon federal judge has decided not to sanction Buchalter PC and other counsel representing an environmental nonprofit in a trademark infringement dispute for submitting "hallucinated" case citations generated by an artificial intelligence tool, saying he is satisfied with "remedial actions" already done or to be taken.

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Perkins Coie Sued By Omani Co. Over Trade Case Defense

By Rachel Riley

An Omani screw manufacturer has launched a legal malpractice suit in Washington state court accusing Perkins Coie LLP of a "series of deadly mistakes" while representing the Middle Eastern company in a U.S. Department of Commerce probe, allegedly leading to steep penalties and tariffs that cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Manning Kass Hit With Age Bias Suit In Calif.

By Christine DeRosa

Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP is facing an age bias lawsuit in California state court alleging a firm leader has made ageist comments at employees over 40 and is trying to drive those workers out of the firm.

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'Constitutional Word Salad': Judge Rips Suit Over Mascot Ban

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal court judge denied a Long Island school district's bid to amend claims in a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on Indigenous mascots, calling proposed changes a "constitutional word salad," but said a district parent could add First Amendment claims to the litigation.

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Non-Attys Could Help Close Georgia's Civil Justice Gap

By Emily Johnson

Low-income Georgians and rural Georgians face several barriers to accessing legal services, including living in a legal desert, according to a Georgia Supreme Court committee’s report. The panel's proposal allowing "limited licensed legal practitioners" to assist with civil housing and consumer debt matters could improve access to justice across the state.

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King & Spalding, Atty Move To End Bias Suit At 4th Circ.

By Grace Elletson

King & Spalding LLP and an attorney who complained that she didn't apply to a summer associate program as a straight, white woman because the firm sought diverse applicants have agreed to end her bias case, according to a filing in the Fourth Circuit.

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New California Bar Leader Aims To Rebuild Public Trust

By Tracey Read

After less than two weeks on the job, Laura Enderton-Speed, the California State Bar's new executive director, is already busy working to strengthen trust in the organization following the botched administration of the February bar exam.

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Analysis

Feds' Use Of AI In Permitting, Rulemaking Raises Concerns

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

Federal government agencies with environmental responsibilities have begun using artificial intelligence tools, but attorneys say information about exactly why, how and when they are being used has been hard to get, leading to uncertainty about their effectiveness and shortcomings.

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NC, Utah Attorneys General Launch Nationwide AI Task Force

By Matt Perez

Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Republican Utah Attorney General Derek Brown have announced the formation of a nationwide artificial intelligence task force in collaboration with developers OpenAI and Microsoft, as well as the Attorney General Alliance, a nonprofit group of bipartisan state attorneys general.

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Northern NY US Atty To Defend DOJ In Maurene Comey Suit

By Jack Karp

The U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of New York has agreed to defend the U.S. Department of Justice against a lawsuit from former FBI Director James Comey's daughter over what she calls her illegal firing, that office informed a New York federal judge this week.

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House Eyes Vote To Repeal Provision On Senators' Lawsuits

By Courtney Bublé

A House bill to repeal a controversial provision tucked into the government funding package that would allow senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages is listed for possible consideration on the schedule for the week of Nov. 17.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Freeths face a professional negligence claim from a Scottish car dealership, Rolls-Royce sue logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel, and a team of Oberon Investments Group investment managers sued by their former employer.  

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Experts say it will likely take at least a month for the thousands of SEC employees now back to work after the government shutdown to catch up with submissions for initial public offerings. Meanwhile, clean energy developers are increasingly looking to privately held investors amid a race to beat a July 2026 cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits. These are some of 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

Sidley Austin LLP and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Washington federal jury cleared Novo Nordisk of allegations that it defrauded the state's Medicaid and Medicare systems by paying kickbacks and promoting off-label use to illegally boost prescriptions of its hemophilia drug NovoSeven.

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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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