DOJ Has 'Negligible Interest' In Trans Patient Info, Judge Says

By Gianna Ferrarin

A California federal judge on Thursday blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from trying to identify individuals who received gender-affirming care from a Stanford Medicine hospital as minors, finding grand jury subpoena demands seeking that information likely violated the Fifth Amendment.

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Judge Questions Imminent Harm In Light Of Valid Passport

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A district judge on Thursday questioned whether a transgender woman suing the government over a new federal policy targeting gender identification was facing an impending threat since her passport with her chosen identity is valid for another six years.

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8th Circ. Revives Local Conversion Therapy Ban Challenge

By Yeji Jesse Lee

The Eighth Circuit revived a case Thursday challenging local ordinances passed in Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, that prohibited the practice of conversion therapy, as it is commonly known, with minors.

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Axia Health Doctor Hit With $7.7M Birth Injury Verdict In Pa.

By Jonathan Capriel

A Pennsylvania state jury awarded $7.7 million to the parents of a newborn who was briefly declared dead and suffered severe brain injuries after doctors allowed the mother to remain in the second stage of labor for more than twice the normal time and delayed resuscitation efforts, according to counsel for the family.

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CMS Proposes Cut To Hospitals' 340B Drug Reimbursements

By Dan McKay

Federal health officials on Thursday proposed a Medicare spending plan that would slash reimbursement for hospitals participating in the 340B drug pricing program and reduce how much all hospitals receive for certain imaging tests.

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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Analysis

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

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Pharma CEO, Daughter To Pay $2M In SEC Stock Fraud Case

By Sydney Price

The Texas-based CEO of a purported pharmaceutical company and his daughter will pay nearly $2 million to end the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims accusing them and several others of participating in a $92 million penny stock fraud scheme.

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NLRB Official Expands Proposed Unit At Wash. Hospital

By Tim Ryan

A National Labor Relations Board official has approved a petition for pharmacists at a Washington state hospital to vote on unionizing, although he agreed with the hospital that the bargaining unit must include additional pharmacists the union had not sought to represent.

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HHS Beats Temple Birth Injury Claims Over Notice Defect

By Matthew Santoni

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services escaped claims that a federal health program physician at Temple University Hospital waited too long to address a patient's pre-term labor and delivery, since the plaintiff had only filed an administrative notice that she intended to sue the agency over her prenatal care.

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Sinclair Convinces Ga. Panel To Sink Doctor's Defamation Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia appellate panel sided with media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group and a nurse who was interviewed about alleged forced sterilizations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, saying a trial court erred by letting a doctor's defamation suit proceed.  

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Calif. Judge Says IHS Must Fund Tribe's Opioid Clinic

By Crystal Owens

A California district judge has ordered the Indian Health Service to enter into a compact and funding agreement with the Pechanga Band of Indians that will allow it to operate an opioid treatment facility, saying the agency's interpretation of the tribe's authority under federal law "does not comport with reality."

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Chubb, Lloyd's Units Seek Further Win Against Opioid Suits

By Jennifer Mandato

Chubb, Liberty Mutual and Lloyd's of London units and other insurers urged a Pennsylvania federal court to find that they don't owe any additional coverage to bankrupt pharmaceutical company Endo International for the remainder of third-party payor opioid lawsuits filed against Endo during its 2017-2018 policy period.

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Roundup

Product Liability Q2 Regulatory Roundup

By Emily Field

This spring and early summer saw the EPA setting its sights on "forever chemicals," approving some of them for use in pesticides and clawing back limits on their presence in drinking water. The former top FDA official is now out, and several nominees are waiting to fill gaps at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

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CORRECTED: NJ Judge Keeps Ex-Executive's Bias Suit Alive

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state judge denied without prejudice the State Ethics Commission's bid to dismiss a former University Hospital executive's discrimination suit and rejected her cross‑motion for partial summary judgment, but reserved decision on the hospital's motion to toss portions of the case.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Restore Doctor's Intubation Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Thursday declined to give a doctor another chance to pursue a suit against medical supplies company Teleflex Medical Inc. alleging infringement of a patent covering a laryngoscope used to intubate a patient, affirming the claim construction of a lower court.

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Insulet Investor Says Device Production Issues Tanked Stock

By Lauren Berg

Insulet Corp. artificially inflated the price of its shares by not disclosing to investors issues with its manufacturing procedures, leading the insulin-delivery device company to initiate medical device corrections and take a hit to its share price, according to a shareholder suit filed Thursday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

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Texas Medical Board Says AG Can't Swap Teams In Suit

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Medical Board asked a state court to bar the Texas attorney general from intervening in a case of a doctor who tried to treat a COVID-19 patient with ivermectin, saying the attorney general previously represented the board and cannot switch sides.

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Kaiser Nears Final OK On $46M Deal Over Patient Data Share

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge said he will grant final approval of a $46 million settlement to resolve claims by 13.1 million Kaiser Permanente patients who say the healthcare provider disclosed their information to Google and other third parties without consent once he decides how to allocate the attorney fees.

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Wound Care Industry Should Expect Data-Driven Scrutiny

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent update on its healthcare fraud takedown efforts indicates that the wound care space is under particularly high scrutiny, with the government increasingly utilizing data analytics to find cases, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

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Legal Risks Of Using AI To Screen Psychedelic Trial Patients

Though using artificial intelligence to preemptively identify drug trial participants likely to experience placebo effects could produce clearer research results, sponsors will need to be ready for the new legal questions these methods raise about informed consent, accountability for algorithmically derived criteria, and potential bias in data training sets, says Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell.

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How 6th Circ. Tightened NLRB Injunction Standard

The Sixth Circuit's recent ruling in Kerwin v. Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital, dissolving a Section 10(j) injunction obtained by the National Labor Relations Board against an employer that refused to bargain, will make it harder for the NLRB to obtain injunctions while prosecuting unfair labor practice proceedings, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

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Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

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Legal Sector Jobs Spike With Work 'Churning Right Along'

By Aebra Coe

The legal sector added 5,100 jobs in June, the largest increase the industry has seen in more than two years, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.

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Analysis

Push And Pull: How High Court Shaped Civil Rights This Term

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered far-reaching rulings on civil rights issues this term, dealing a major blow to federal voting-rights protections while expanding gun rights, upholding restrictions on transgender athletes' participation in women's sports and preserving birthright citizenship.

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'Embarrassed' Conn. Atty Details ChatGPT Briefing Errors

By Aaron Keller

With a sanctions hearing on the horizon, a Connecticut attorney has told the state's highest court he is "extremely embarrassed" by artificial intelligence errors in briefs filed in two recently decided cases, explaining he used ChatGPT to edit his research without knowing it could make "unprompted changes to the content."

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Feds Seek Up To 21 Months For Ex-Judge On ICE Obstruction

By Elizabeth Daley

A former Wisconsin judge who was convicted of obstructing ICE officers' courthouse arrest of a man facing misdemeanor charges by pointing him to a side door should spend up to 21 months in prison, the government said in a sentencing memo, recommending she be made an example.

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Del. Magistrate Orders JPMorgan To Advance Javice Fees

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court ruled that JPMorgan Chase & Co. must advance millions more in disputed legal fees to cover the appeal of the convicted founder of college financial aid startup Frank, concluding the bank failed to meet Delaware's demanding standard for withholding advancement by showing the billing requests reflected "clear abuse."

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Judges To Tour Rust Belt To Build Trust In Courts

By James Boyle

Days after the Fourth of July celebration of America's 250th birthday, a group of current and retired judges will lead a four-day bus tour through three states to promote one of the bedrock principles of the country's independence: the rule of law.

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Mass Tort Titan Paul J. Napoli Dies

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Paul J. Napoli, an influential plaintiffs attorney who worked on some of the nation's highest-profile mass tort matters in recent decades, died on Tuesday at the age of 58.

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'Trailblazer' Mass. Federal Judge Rya Zobel Dies At 94

By Chris Villani

U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel, a survivor of Nazi Germany who became the first woman to serve as a federal judge in Massachusetts and the first woman partner at Goodwin Procter, died Saturday at age 94, the court's judges announced.

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Nadine Menendez Irks Judge With 11th-Hour Prison Delay Bid

By Rae Ann Varona

Nadine Menendez urged a New York federal judge Thursday to delay her prison surrender date four months to accommodate breast cancer-related surgeries, to which the judge ordered Menendez explain why her request came "90 minutes" before the Fourth of July long weekend and just days before her surrender date.

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Sports And Real Estate: A Special Report

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Nowadays, professional sports are as deeply woven into the real estate and legal industries as they are into American culture. In this special report, Law360 Real Estate Authority examines the most recent interplay between sports and real estate development, the policies and litigation accompanying it, and the vast legal work guiding it.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week 

By Sue Reisinger

Amid the changes coming for general counsel, the policies and enforcement priorities of federal regulators may fluctuate more rapidly after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that could dramatically remake independent government agencies. And the EEOC rescinded affirmative action documents that have guided employers for decades.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Asian Law Caucus and the Democracy Defenders Fund lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship.

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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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