October 06, 2026
Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at the U.S. Supreme Court's request for the federal government to weigh in on an allergy company's antitrust case, a Sixth Circuit decision overturning a ruling that allowed hundreds of opioid claims against two large pharmacy benefit managers, and other legal news from the past week.
October 02, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Friday overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers, saying the MDL's presiding judge "clearly abused" his authority by belatedly allowing hundreds of new cases in one fell swoop.
September 17, 2026
The federal judge steering multidistrict opioid litigation is lacing into major pharmacy benefit managers for asking the Sixth Circuit to abruptly reverse a key ruling, denouncing their "spurious insinuations" about his motives and warning of disarray if they successfully break up the MDL's consolidated suits.
August 27, 2026
An Ohio federal judge knowingly flouted a Sixth Circuit rebuke by forcing two of the largest remaining defendants in multidistrict opioid litigation to either "settle for enormous sums or litigate for years hundreds of cases," says a Thursday petition urging the appeals court to intervene.