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July 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania hospital employee disclosed her diabetes too late and did not clearly ask for accommodation before she was fired for sleeping on the job, a Third Circuit panel ruled Monday, additionally sanctioning her attorney for filing a minor motion that possibly contained artificial intelligence hallucinations.
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July 20, 2026
Health insurers including Aetna and UnitedHealth Group are urging a Florida federal court to pause discovery in an attorney's malicious prosecution suit pending a decision on the insurers' motions to dismiss, saying they expect the case to be tossed or significantly trimmed.
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July 20, 2026
A CBD oil company is seeking a default judgment and a $1.7 million award against a hemp farm that accused it of breaching their contract, while the farm is asking the Washington federal court to forgive its late filing in the $14.7 million case.
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July 20, 2026
Healthcare systems affiliated with the University of North Carolina settled two lawsuits accusing Humana of underpaying for drugs purchased through the federal 340B drug discount program, according to notices in North Carolina federal court.
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July 20, 2026
Federal courts in the latter half of 2026 are expected to decide if the Trump administration overstepped by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions pass constitutional muster, potentially affecting the government's ability to tackle fraud.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing an upcoming trial over states' social media addiction claims against Meta took issue with both sides' "extreme" penalty estimates during a pretrial hearing Friday, saying the states' $1.4 trillion proposal is "unreasonable," but Meta's $4 million estimate "is not even a slap on the hand."
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July 17, 2026
Taylor Farms and Taco Bell are facing proposed class litigation in California, Michigan and Ohio federal courts after public health officials linked contaminated lettuce that was supplied to Taco Bell to a parasitic outbreak that's sickened more than 1,600 people in several states.
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July 17, 2026
The federal government asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday to dismiss much of a patent suit against it by Arbutus Biopharma tied to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, saying the court couldn't hear the bulk of the case because Arbutus and Moderna reached a multibillion-dollar consent judgment that is subject to appeal.
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July 17, 2026
A former Chicago hospital executive who is fighting extradition to face federal prosecutors' $239 million COVID-19 testing fraud charges cannot seek the same grand jury misconduct-based dismissal his former co-defendants received until he submits himself to the Northern District of Illinois' jurisdiction, a federal judge has ruled.
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July 17, 2026
The full Federal Circuit said Friday that it won't review a panel decision that mostly undid a California federal jury verdict that awarded $18.3 million to International Medical Devices Inc. in a trade secret case about penile implants.
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July 17, 2026
A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.
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July 17, 2026
A Maryland federal judge stayed a set of Affordable Care Act marketplace reforms that were set to take effect Monday, finding several cities and groups representing doctors and small businesses were likely to succeed in their Administrative Procedure Act challenge against them.
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July 17, 2026
A federal judge granted final approval to wholesalers on settlements worth a total of at least $62 million with Glenmark Pharmaceutical Inc., Pfizer Inc. and Pfizer subsidiary Greenstone LLC over claims the companies colluded with others to keep generic drug prices high, according to court orders.
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July 17, 2026
A Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to induce them to buy a drug that treats eye inflammation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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July 17, 2026
The American Academy of Pediatrics and other public health organizations on Friday defended before the First Circuit a Massachusetts judge's decision to block Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine policy committee appointments, countering claims that the judge overreached.
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July 17, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday conditionally approved Dallas hospital White Rock Medical Center LLC's disclosure statement for its Chapter 11 plan, after a consensus was reached among key creditor constituencies and as the debtor seeks an expedited path toward plan confirmation by September.
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July 17, 2026
A Colorado federal judge dismantled a collective action brought by DaVita nurses and technicians alleging the kidney care giant forced them to work through unpaid meal breaks, finding Friday that the roughly 1,300 workers' vastly different experiences made collective treatment impossible.
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July 17, 2026
The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 16, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health information to Meta and others, trimming injunctive relief and negligence per se allegations while allowing state wiretap and six other claims to proceed.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the makers of the abortion medication mifepristone have urged the Fifth Circuit not to reinstate an in-person dispensing requirement, arguing that doing so would disrupt the government's ongoing review of the drug, "threaten chaos" and defy the U.S. Supreme Court.
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July 16, 2026
The California Supreme Court on Thursday clarified the state's final judgment rule and held that a voluntary dismissal intended to speed up appellate review of adverse trial court rulings in a medical malpractice case essentially forfeited the case for the plaintiffs.
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July 16, 2026
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration administrative law judge has laid out upcoming deadlines following the conclusion of hearings on a proposal to move marijuana to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act.
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July 16, 2026
A pair of insurance agencies accused by the Federal Trade Commission of operating a deceptive telemarketing scheme that targets consumers looking for health insurance must pay a combined $152 million to resolve the claims, a Florida federal court ruled Thursday.
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July 16, 2026
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that a child abuse expert for the prosecution should not have told jurors in a child abuse trial that she diagnosed a young victim with "medical torture," but it unanimously concluded that the error did not warrant a new trial because other evidence overwhelmingly supported the conviction.