The Trump administration on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a district court's preliminary injunction so that the National Institutes of Health can resume terminating $783 million in grants, saying the lower court, under a recent high court ruling, lacked jurisdiction to make the government pay the grants.
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Trump Admin Asks Justices To Stay Block On NIH Grant Cuts

By Rae Ann Varona

The Trump administration on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a district court's preliminary injunction so that the National Institutes of Health can resume terminating $783 million in grants, saying the lower court, under a recent high court ruling, lacked jurisdiction to make the government pay the grants.

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Sun Pharma Settles Consumer Price Fixing Case For $200M

By Jared Foretek

Sun Pharmaceuticals has agreed to a $200 million settlement with a class of consumers who claim that the company joined other generics makers in fixing drug prices.

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Eli Lilly's Trademark Suit Not 'Abuse Of Process'

By Mike Curley

A Washington federal judge has tossed out counterclaims by a pair of clinics being sued for trademark infringement by Eli Lilly & Co., saying the acts of filing the suit and making a settlement demand are not in themselves abuse of process.

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3rd Circ. Rules Philly Injection Site Equals Religious 'Person'

By Carla Baranauckas

A nonprofit battling government resistance to its planned safe drug injection site in Philadelphia can qualify for religious freedom protections, the Third Circuit said in a precedential opinion on Thursday, reasoning the organization meets the definition of a "person" practicing religion.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Florida Man Gets 14 Years For $78M Drug Diversion Scheme

By David Minsky

The purported leader of a Florida-based operation that diverted $78 million in pharmaceutical drugs was sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy-related charges in connection with illegally purchasing medications meant for HIV or cancer and reselling them as legitimately obtained products.

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Pa. Court Backs Use Of DNA From Trash In 1995 Rape Case

By Elizabeth Daley

The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Thursday upheld the use of a John Doe warrant and decades-delayed DNA testing to identify and convict a man in 2024 for the violent rape of a Penn State student in 1995, saying in the precedent-setting opinion that police were allowed to collect DNA evidence from the man's trash years later.

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LITIGATION

NC Judge Reins In Row Over Clinical Trial Software Contract

By Abigail Harrison

A 6-year-old breach of contract suit got pruned on its second trip to North Carolina's business court Wednesday, with defendant Pharmaceutical Research Associates Inc. winning partial summary judgment against former PRA employee Neil Raja and the healthcare technology company he founded, Value Health Solutions Inc.

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FTC May Join Intuitive Surgical Antitrust Appeal

By MJ Koo

The Federal Trade Commission has asked the Ninth Circuit for extra time to decide if it will weigh in on a $140 million antitrust appeal involving Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci robot.

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Genentech Seeks Win After $122M Biogen Royalties Mistrial

By Cara Salvatore

Genentech Inc. urged a California federal court Wednesday to rule that Biogen MA Inc. owes $122 million in patent royalties and interest under the "only coherent construction" of their licensing deal, in a rare post-mistrial arrangement that will see the judge step in to deliver the verdict.

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Brief

Novo Nordisk Resolves Ozempic TM Suit Against Drugmaker

By Elliot Weld

Novo Nordisk has settled claims of trademark infringement and unfair trade practices against Connecticut drugmaker LIVation LLC over the latter's comparisons of its compounded drugs to the Danish pharmaceutical company's Ozempic medication.

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DEALS

Deals Rumor Mill

CapVest Seeks $11.7B Stake In Stada, Plus More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

British private equity firm CapVest Partners is looking to take a major stake in German drugmaker Stada Arzneimittel in a roughly $11.7 billion deal, Comedy Central's "South Park" creators have nabbed a $1.5 billion five-year streaming rights deal with Paramount, and ExxonMobil wants to explore deepwater blocks in Trinidad and Tobago for oil and gas. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other deal rumors from the past week.

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Life Sciences-Focused Venture Firm Wraps $290.2M Fund

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Australian life sciences-focused venture capital firm Brandon Capital on Thursday revealed that it closed its sixth fund with AU$439 million ($290.2 million) in tow.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How To Increase 3rd-Party Preissuance Patent Submissions

Attorneys Marian Underweiser and Marc Ehrlich, who helped draft the America Invents Act, discuss changes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could potentially implement to facilitate its hopes for increased participation in front-end patent challenges.

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Trump Air Emissions Carveouts Cloud The Regulatory Picture

President Donald Trump's new proclamations temporarily exempting key U.S. industries from air toxics standards, issued under a narrow, rarely-used provision of the Clean Air Act, will likely lead to legal challenges and tighter standards in some states, contributing to further regulatory uncertainty, say attorneys at GableGotwals.

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Series

Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Courts 'Turning Up The Heat' On AI Fake Citation Sanctions

By Emily Sawicki

As the volume of sanctions orders resulting from attorneys' use of faulty citations blamed on artificial intelligence continues to rise, federal judges are beginning to pivot from financial sanctions to more creative means of disciplining lawyers, including targeting their professional reputations in ways that could really hurt.

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Trump Admin Making Another EO Appeal, Targeting WilmerHale

By Jack Karp

The Trump administration is appealing a D.C. federal judge's ruling that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale amounts to a "staggering" assault on the First Amendment, according to a notice filed Friday.

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Will Tom Girardi's Wardrobe Mishap Help His Appeal?

By Craig Clough

When legendary attorney Tom Girardi's pants fell down as he finished testifying in his defense, the judge had to decide: Was this a desperate bid to feign incompetence and avoid prison for stealing client funds, or just an accident by an 86-year-old man with dementia? And if it really was an accident, does it now give Girardi a shot at winning his appeal and overturning his sentence?

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Former Jan. 6 Prosecutor, 2 Other Ex-DOJ Employees File Suit

By Rose Krebs

A former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has filed a federal lawsuit along with two other ex-Department of Justice employees alleging they were unlawfully fired.

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Epic Defends Apple Antitrust Injunction After Birthright Ruling

By Dorothy Atkins

Epic Games has told the Ninth Circuit the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in litigation challenging President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order should not affect a nationwide injunction and civil contempt order issued in its antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies, arguing Apple misread the high court's precedent.

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Judge Keeps Nationwide Block On Birthright Citizenship EO

By Rae Ann Varona

A Massachusetts federal judge Friday refused to narrow a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, saying any narrower alternative would not be enough to protect a group of states from their asserted harms.

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Trump Admin Loses Sanctuary Fight With Ill., For Now

By Hailey Konnath

An Illinois federal judge Friday threw out the Trump administration's first suit challenging local sanctuary policies, ruling that it's within Illinois', Cook County's and Chicago's rights to opt out of helping the federal government with immigration enforcement efforts.

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11th Circ. Calls Dismissal Of Ga. Bar Bias Suit 'Indefensible'

By Chart Riggall

An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared all but certain Friday that it would revive a Georgia attorney's race bias suit against the state's bar association, calling a federal district court's dismissal of her claims that the bar has a two-tiered disciplinary system "indefensible."

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Podcaster At Fees Hearing Blames His Atty For Sanctions

By Zach Dupont

A podcaster accused of spreading lies that a former Dominion Voting Systems Inc. executive rigged the 2020 election blamed his lawyer Friday for his noncompliance with the Colorado federal court, accusing the attorney of "malpractice" and "negligence."

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Dentons Stalling Discovery In Terraform Ch. 11, Court Told

By Alex Wittenberg

The bankruptcy plan administrator for failed cryptocurrency platform Terraform Labs has accused Dentons US LLP of blocking his discovery requests in an attempt to secure final approval of some $25 million in fees, saying the law firm is seeking to "run out the clock" to dodge an investigation into its role in Terraform's collapse.

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Veteran CFPB Enforcement Atty Heads For The Exit

By Jon Hill

A longtime Consumer Financial Protection Bureau litigator told a Virginia federal court on Friday that she is leaving after more than a decade at the agency, becoming the latest departure at the regulator as its future under the Trump administration remains in limbo.

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Legal Org Urges DC Circ. To Reject Trump's Tariff Powers

By Anna Scott Farrell

The D.C. Circuit should affirm a ruling that sided with toy makers and blocked President Donald Trump from using an international economic law to impose emergency tariffs because the law does not give the president the authority he claims, a legal organization argued.

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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 the owner of a £6 million ($8 million) mansion once rented by Adele sue real estate consultants Strutt & Parker, Romanian-Australian mining investor Vasile Frank Timis bring a claim against reputation and privacy firm Schillings, and a Chinese businessman bring a legal action against his former lawyer over an alleged £12.5 million mortgage fraud.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Glass Lewis brought a lawsuit against Texas over a measure it claims requires the proxy advisory firm to "publicly condemn itself" when its advice for clients reflects certain viewpoints the government disfavors. Meanwhile, a new proposed class action alleges Boeing employees on long-term disability leave missed out on a $12,000 bonus distributed after workers ratified a union contract. 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

Jones Day and DLA Piper lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit overturned a more than $125 million judgment against Medtronic's CoreValve unit for infringing a Colibri Heart Valve LLC patent.

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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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ABP Corp.

Allergan PLC

Allianz SE

American Bar Association

American Public Health Association

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists

BNP Paribas SA

BTI Consulting Group Inc.

Barclays PLC

Belk Inc.

Biogen Inc.

Bloomberg LP

Boston University

British Broadcasting Corp.

ByteDance Ltd.

CVS Health Corp.

Capital One Financial Corp.

Cargill Inc.

Center for Appellate Litigation

Chevron Corp.

Cinven Ltd.

City of Hope National Medical Center

Comedy Central

CorMedix Inc.

Credit Suisse Group AG

Datadog Inc.

Eastman Kodak Co.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Epic Games Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Fifth Third Bancorp

Fort Point Capital

Genentech Inc.

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Gunvor

HSBC Holdings PLC

Hobby Lobby Stores

International Business Machines Corp.

Intuitive Surgical

Investments Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

Kestra Medical Technologies Inc.

Learning Resources Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Los Angeles Times

MS Amlin PLC

Major League Baseball Inc.

Medtronic PLC

Microsoft Corp.

Netflix Inc.

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Novo Nordisk A S

Paramount Global

Pinnacle Financial Partners

SIG Susquehanna

Sandoz International GmbH

Spotify Technology SA

State Bar of Georgia

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Synovus Financial Corp.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

The Boeing Co.

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

University of Miami

Verizon Communications Inc.

WNBA Enterprises LLC

Washington Legal Foundation

Waymo LLC

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania

Baker Botts

Bass Berry

Burakiewicz & DePriest

Cain & Skarnulis

City of Chicago Department of Law

Clement & Murphy

Clyde & Co

Cole Schotz

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Danaher Lagnese

David A Howard PA

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Enyo Law

Faegre Drinker

Fine Kaplan

Finnegan

FisherBroyles

Friedland Cianfrani

GableGotwals

Gateley PLC

Geldards

Gibson Dunn

Harris Karstaedt

Harrison LLP

Hilgers Graben

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holman Fenwick

Holwell Shuster

Irwin Mitchell

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Kennedys Law LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lerner David

Littler Mendelson

MILS Legal Ltd

Mark S. Zaid PC

McCarter & English

McCaulley Law Group

McDermott Will & Emery

Mignott Law Group

Miller Fair

Miller Nash LLP

Mills & Reeve

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Morrison & Foerster

Nall & Miller

Newman LLP

Parker Poe

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Porter Thomas

Quinn Emanuel

Reid Collins

Richards Layton

Robinson Stewart Montgomery

Russ August

Seila Law

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Skaggs Faucette

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Swift Currie

TLT LLP

Trowers & Hamlins

Tucker Arensberg

Wachtell Lipton

Ward Hadaway

Wedlake Bell

Weightmans LLP

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Zimmer Citron

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Supreme Court

Illinois Attorney General's Office

National Credit Union Administration

National Institutes of Health

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

The Crown Prosecution Service

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Navy

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado