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October 02, 2025
Ex-Firm Can't Revive Malicious Prosecution Suit In 11th Circ.
The Eleventh Circuit has refused to overturn lower court rulings nixing a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by a now-defunct law firm against a surgical center, as well as a sanctions ruling against the firm's counsel.
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October 02, 2025
Singaporean Biotech To Go Public Via $1.5B SPAC Merger
Singapore-based biotechnology company Nanyang Biologics Pte. Ltd. on Thursday announced plans to go public in the U.S. by merging with special purpose acquisition company RF Acquisition Corp. II in a deal that gives the biotech a pre-transaction equity value of $1.5 billion.
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October 02, 2025
Agency Ex-Exec Says He Was Misled About CEO Agreement
A former executive at a company providing assistance to people with intellectual disabilities and autism claimed in a lawsuit that he was misled over whether he was officially promoted, even as the company held him out to state regulators and banks as the chief executive officer.
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October 02, 2025
UChicago Medicine Ducks Class Claims In Patient Privacy Suit
A UChicago Medicine patient can move forward with amended privacy violation claims over the medical center's allegedly illegal use of Meta pixel tracking tools but must leave her class allegations behind, given an agreement she entered between pleadings, an Illinois federal judge ruled.
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October 02, 2025
Cravath, Kirkland Lead Berkshire's $9.7B OxyChem Buy
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to acquire energy giant Occidental's chemical business, OxyChem, in a $9.7 billion all-cash megadeal built by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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October 01, 2025
Pa. Court Affirms 53-Year Sentence In Baby's Drug Death
A woman sentenced to up to 53 years in prison for the fentanyl-related murder of her newborn was rightfully convicted, the Pennsylvania Superior Court said Wednesday, finding that via her breast milk or by other means she undoubtedly contributed to her child's demise because drugs were all over her home.
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October 01, 2025
Eli Lilly's Drug Suit Slammed As 'Anti-Competitive' Move
Eli Lilly and Co.'s lawsuit accusing a compounding pharmacy of unlawfully selling untested weight loss drugs should be tossed because the drugmaker didn't show its advertising was deceptive or harmful, the defendant told a Texas federal court this week.
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October 01, 2025
Ga. Panel Revives Injury Suit Alleging IV Mixup Against Emory
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday revived a woman's lawsuit against a group of registered nurses and Emory Healthcare Inc., in which she alleged her left hand had to be amputated after she was given medication through an IV line there instead of a larger vein.
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October 01, 2025
Medtronic Knocks Out Investor Suit Over Insulin Pump Issues
Medical device manufacturer Medtronic PLC has escaped proposed investor class action claims it concealed issues affecting a certain insulin pump it makes, hurting investors after its trading prices fell when the company disclosed it had received a related warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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October 01, 2025
Texas Judge Sends Mifepristone Challenge To Missouri Court
A closely watched challenge to federal approvals for the abortion medication mifepristone is moving from Texas to Missouri after a federal judge found the plaintiffs remaining in the litigation have no connection to the Lone Star State.
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October 01, 2025
Trans Athlete Fights To Halt High Court Review Of Idaho Ban
Lindsay Hecox told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday her case challenging an Idaho state law banning transgender athletes such as herself is now moot because she has dropped her litigation, providing "no basis" to proceed with a review, contrary to the state's arguments saying otherwise.
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October 01, 2025
3rd Circ. Hints Forum Query Premature In $139M Award Row
A Third Circuit panel wondered Wednesday whether a Delaware court asked the right question before it concluded that it lacked jurisdiction over a Chilean company's quest to rope an Italian contractor's U.S. assets into a bid to collect on a $139 million arbitration award.
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October 01, 2025
Ga. Atty DQ'd From 'Extremely Weird' Pharma Fraud Case
A Georgia federal judge said Wednesday she intends to disqualify a prominent defense attorney from representing a man charged with lying to investigators amid a criminal fraud probe into his employer, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc., but would allow the company to continue footing his legal bills as he seeks new counsel.
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October 01, 2025
Cozen O'Connor Adds Healthcare Litigator To Philly Office
An attorney with more than three decades of experience representing healthcare providers in litigation matters has recently moved his practice to Cozen O'Connor's Philadelphia shop.
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October 01, 2025
Weil, Morgan Lewis Steer Up To $900M Biopharma Purchase
Biopharmaceutical company Halozyme Therapeutics Inc., led by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, on Wednesday announced plans to buy fellow biopharma company Elektrofi Inc., advised by Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, for up to $900 million.
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October 01, 2025
Ga. Panel Backs Doctors In Brothers' Suit Over Mom's Death
A Georgia appeals panel has sided with a pair of doctors and their employers in a suit by brothers alleging a failure to quickly diagnose their mother before she was paralyzed, saying the trial court did not incorrectly instruct the jury on the definition or application of gross negligence.
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September 30, 2025
McKinsey Trims Endo Suit But Can't Nix Indemnification Claim
A New York bankruptcy judge trimmed an adversary suit Monday claiming McKinsey & Co. Inc. should pay at least $1.5 billion to cover costs bankrupt pharmaceutical developer Endo International racked up defending against opioid claims, tossing nearly all allegations with leave to amend, but greenlighting an indemnification claim.
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September 30, 2025
Feds Finalize Rules To Speed H-2A Filing, Limit Some Wages
The Trump administration finalized two separate rules on Tuesday aimed at streamlining the H-2A temporary visa process for seasonal farmworkers, one allowing employers to file petitions earlier and another revising annual wage hikes for certain agricultural jobs.
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September 30, 2025
Ill. Doctor Gets Two Years' Probation For $4M Medicare Fraud
A former doctor who admitted to submitting more than $4 million in false Medicare claims was sentenced to two years of probation Tuesday by an Illinois federal judge who sought to honor the ex-physician's cooperation in prosecutors' efforts to pursue other allegedly culpable defendants in different jurisdictions.
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September 30, 2025
Texas Court Upends $13M Home Care Car-Train Crash Verdict
A Texas appeals court has vacated a $13 million verdict against a home care provider over a car-train crash that killed one of its clients and injured his wife, saying the trial court instructed the jury incorrectly and the evidence did not show that the provider's employee was acting in the course and scope of her employment.
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September 30, 2025
Pharmacist Gets 35 Months For 'Insidious' $11M Drug Scheme
A pharmacist was sentenced on Tuesday to 35 months in prison for his role in a plot to file fraudulent prescriptions for specialty drugs that were later sold for profit, costing Medicare and an insurer at least $5.6 million and earning the pharmacist and his wife more than $11 million.
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September 30, 2025
Blue Cross Insurers Sanctioned For 2-Year Discovery Drawout
An Illinois federal judge has ordered a host of Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurers to pay the fees and costs Walgreens incurred in an overbilling suit while helping to work through discovery production, which took two years to remediate with a special master.
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September 30, 2025
Nevada Hospital Nets $510M Verdict In Staff Poaching Suit
A Nevada hospital won a jury award of more than $510 million in its lawsuit accusing Universal Health Services of raiding its staff and swiping its trade secrets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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September 30, 2025
HHS Moves To Suspend Harvard From Funding
The civil rights office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is moving to cut off Harvard University from future funding, a maneuver legal experts say could stymie healthcare and biomedical research.
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September 30, 2025
Judge Ends Challenge To Mich. Abortion Rights Amendment
A federal judge tossed a challenge to Michigan's voter-approved constitutional right to an abortion on Tuesday because abortion opponents had not shown they were personally harmed by the amendment.
Expert Analysis
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How Gov't Shutdown Will Affect Federal Health Agencies
Federal health agencies' contingency plans indicate that many major programs will remain insulated from disruption during the ongoing government shutdown, but significant policy proposals will likely be delayed and the Trump administration's emphasis on reduction-in-force plans distinguishes this shutdown from past lapses, says Miranda Franco at Holland & Knight.
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Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.
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$100K H-1B Fee May Disrupt Rural Healthcare Needs
The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employers' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Assessing Legal, Regulatory Hurdles Of Healthcare Offshoring
The offshoring of administrative, nonclinical functions has emerged as an increasingly attractive option for healthcare companies seeking to reduce costs, but this presents challenges in navigating the web of state restrictions on the access or storage of patient data outside the U.S., say attorneys at McDermott.
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Lessons As Joint Employer Suits Shift From Rare To Routine
Joint employer allegations now appear so frequently that employers should treat them as part of the ordinary risk landscape, and several recent decisions demonstrate how fluid the liability doctrine has become, says Thomas O’Connell at Buchalter.
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Texas Suit Marks Renewed Focus On Service Kickback Theory
After a dormant period at the federal level, a theory of kickback enforcement surrounding nurse educator programs and patient support services resurfaced with a recent state court complaint filed by Texas against Eli Lilly, highlighting for drugmakers the ever-changing nature of enforcement priorities and industry landscapes, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.
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5 Years In, COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Landscape Is Shifting
As the government moves pandemic fraud enforcement from small-dollar individual prosecutions to high-value corporate cases, and billions of dollars remain unaccounted for, companies and defense attorneys must take steps now to prepare for the next five years of scrutiny, says attorney David Tarras.
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Vanda Ruling Opens Door For Contesting FDA Drug Denials
The D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Vanda Pharmaceuticals v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration creates new opportunities and considerations for drug companies navigating the FDA approval process, establishing that litigation is an option when the FDA refuses to hold a hearing, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.
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Courts Keep Upping Standing Ante In ERISA Healthcare Suits
As Article III standing becomes increasingly important in litigation brought by employer-sponsored health plan members under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, several recent cases suggest that courts are taking a more scrutinizing approach to the standing inquiry in both class actions and individual matters, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Calif. Bill May Shake Up Healthcare Investment Landscape
If signed by the governor, newly passed California legislation would significantly expand the Office of Health Care Affordability's oversight of private equity and hedge fund investments in healthcare companies and management services organizations, and raise several questions about companies' data confidentiality and filing burdens, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.