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  Huawei CFO Admits Duping HSBC On Iran Dealings

  By Stewart Bishop

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  Philadelphia Jury Clears J&J In Talc Cancer Case

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• Ky. Hospital Workers Can't Block Vaccine Mandate

  By Dave Simpson

  A Kentucky federal judge declined to provide a preliminary injunction to a group of hospital workers attempting to block their employer's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling Friday that they have neither shown they're likely to succeed in their challenge nor that their individual liberties are being harmed.

• Loeb & Loeb, Norton Rose Latest Firms To Delay Reopening

  By Dave Simpson

  Loeb & Loeb LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright are the latest BigLaw firms to delay their reopening processes, with Loeb declining to set a new return-to-office date, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360, and Norton Rose pushing its full reopening to early 2022.

• Theranos Execs Put PR Over Patients, Ex-Lab Chief Testifies

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A former Theranos laboratory director testified in ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes' criminal trial Friday that he resigned after company executives insisted on rolling out blood-testing devices riddled with technical problems that caused serious inaccuracies, saying management "believed more about PR and funding than about patient care."

• Fed. Circ. Rebukes Judge Albright For Still Avoiding Transfers

  By Dani Kass

  The Federal Circuit on Friday ordered U.S. District Judge Alan Albright to transfer six WSOU Investments patent infringement suits against Juniper Networks from Texas to California, holding the nonpracticing entity can't use a Texas litigation office to justify venue and chiding the judge for ignoring recent rulings against him.

• PG&E Facing Manslaughter Charges Over 2020 Calif. Fire

  By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

  A California district attorney on Friday charged PG&E with four felony involuntary manslaughter charges for its role in allegedly causing the Zogg fire, which burned roughly 56,000 acres in two counties last year.

• Novo Nordisk To Pay $100M To Settle Investor Class Action

  By Sarah Jarvis

  Novo Nordisk announced Friday that it has reached a $100 million settlement in an investor class action alleging the Danish pharmaceutical giant boasted about its finances while concealing a scheme to pay kickbacks to pharmacy benefit managers to get its insulin drugs on stores' recommended product lists.

• QVC Ducks Antitrust Claim In Suzanne Somers Diet Pill Row

  By Matt Fair

  A Pennsylvania federal judge has nixed a claim alleging antitrust violations on the part of QVC Inc. as part of a broader lawsuit from actress and entrepreneur Suzanne Somers accusing the home shopping giant of scheming to freeze her out of the market for nutritional supplements.

• Dubai Developer Revealed As Bidder On Surfside Condo Site

  By Nathan Hale

  The opening $120 million offer for the site of fallen Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, came from Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based Damac Properties PJSC, one of the Middle East's largest real estate developers, a court filing revealed Friday.

• Sen. Warren Reintroduces Bill To End Ch. 11 Forum-Shopping

  By Vince Sullivan

  U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren reintroduced a bipartisan bill Thursday intended to curb the practice of forum-shopping in corporate bankruptcy cases so that large companies can't hand-pick the judges who oversee their insolvency cases.

• California AG Announces Appeal Of Purdue Ch. 11 Plan

  By Rick Archer

  California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday became the latest attorney general to announce an appeal of the approval of Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan, saying the OxyContin maker's former owners in the Sackler family must be held accountable for their part in the opioid crisis.

• Davis Polk Can't Sink Associate's Bias, Retaliation Claims

  By Justin Wise

  A New York federal judge on Friday kept alive some remaining bias and retaliation claims a Black former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate is pursuing against the firm, but again dismissed an allegation that race was a motivating factor in some partners' decision to fire him.

• Calif. Jury Awards $5M In Landmark Cannabis Antitrust Case

  By Lauren Berg

  A California jury Thursday awarded $5 million in damages to a marijuana company that said it was prevented from opening in Richmond by a rival group of dispensaries looking to control the local cannabis market, in what the plaintiff's attorneys characterized as the first cannabis-related antitrust case.