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June 22, 2026
Splenda maker TC Heartland LLC and the scientist whom it accused of defamation were sent packing from North Carolina federal court Monday, after a judge found neither had offered evidence to overcome the other's First Amendment right to talk about scientific research.
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June 22, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge blocked a lawsuit in California federal court alleging Jackson Walker LLP and executives at Sorrento Therapeutics and M3 Partners conspired to forum shop in Texas so the drug developer could seek Chapter 11 protection in an "ethically compromised" bankruptcy court, ruling the suit's claims are barred by Sorrento's bankruptcy plan.
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June 22, 2026
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, a leading cannabis consumer advocate, has asked the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider its move freezing out all pro-reform voices from upcoming hearings on a proposal to reschedule marijuana.
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June 22, 2026
Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. has defeated Connecticut trade law, emotional distress and informed consent claims in a lawsuit accusing a doctor of fraudulently using his own sperm to inseminate a fertility patient, but the hospital network holding entity must face a fraud allegation, a state judge has ruled.
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June 22, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday affirmed Quest Diagnostics Inc.'s victory over a proposed class action accusing the company of mismanaging its employee 401(k) plan, holding the company followed a prudent process in deciding to retain two challenged investment funds despite periods of underperformance.
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June 22, 2026
Holland & Knight LLP has bolstered its ranks in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., by adding an attorney from Jones Day with experience helping clients navigate investigations brought by enforcers including the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Trade Representative has opened an investigation into whether Germany has been underpaying for certain pharmaceutical products in a way that burdens U.S. consumers with added costs, which could lead to added tariffs.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has told the Federal Circuit that multibillion-dollar patent infringement litigation should be directed at the government, instead of Moderna, for the drugmaker's development and supply of COVID vaccines during the pandemic.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government to weigh in on whether it should hear the pharmaceutical industry's challenge to Oregon's drug pricing transparency law, which drugmakers say forces them to justify pricing decisions and risks exposing trade secrets.
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June 22, 2026
AbbVie said Monday it has agreed to buy Apogee Therapeutics, a company developing therapies for inflammatory and immunological diseases, at a total equity value of approximately $10.9 billion, with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP advising.
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June 18, 2026
An Indiana federal judge on Thursday refused to sign off on a confidential settlement that would bar a telehealth company from selling knock-offs of Eli Lilly's weight-loss medications, saying the companies didn't provide enough information for him to consider the deal.
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June 18, 2026
A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allowed Meta's unauthorized collection of personal health information.
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June 18, 2026
A fertility clinic chain has defeated a proposed class action accusing it of deceptively marketing its preimplantation genetic testing, after a Colorado federal judge found none of the patients claimed their own tests were inaccurate or caused a miscarriage or failed pregnancy.
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June 18, 2026
Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed negligence class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to have adequate data security measures in place to protect sensitive personal health information of patients and employees from being exposed to a cybercriminal extortionist group.
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June 18, 2026
Intellectual property litigation has become more spread out among patents, trademarks and copyrights over the years, as artificial intelligence and e-commerce systems have been drivers of legal matters, according to a new report.
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June 18, 2026
The full Federal Circuit won't revisit a panel decision that gave new life to an inventor's suit accusing DePuy Synthes Cos. of infringing his spinal realignment method patents, letting stand the decision that faulted a lower court's handling of expert testimony in the case.
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June 18, 2026
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the First Circuit a Boston federal judge's decision to freeze his vaccine committee appointments lacks a legal foundation and has left the government paralyzed when it comes to vaccine policy.
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June 18, 2026
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday announced its selection of interested parties to participate in upcoming administrative hearings on a proposal to reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive status, each of whom is understood to oppose marijuana rescheduling.
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June 18, 2026
Cannabis industry stakeholders on Thursday largely applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision finding that a ban on gun ownership for drug users is unconstitutional as applied to a person who regularly uses marijuana.
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June 18, 2026
Venture-backed Kardigan Inc., a biotechnology firm developing therapies for cardiovascular diseases, hit the public markets on Thursday after raising $400 million in its initial public offering.
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June 18, 2026
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired a former Ropes & Gray LLP partner who works on a myriad of health regulatory and drug pricing matters, advising pharmaceutical manufacturers, investors and other entities on those issues, the firm announced Thursday.
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June 18, 2026
A Delaware federal judge has cleared radiopharmaceutical companies of allegations they infringed claims in various patents owned by a French unit of Novartis after finding that all of those claims were invalid.
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June 18, 2026
A pharmaceutical company said its insurers improperly denied coverage to fix an eye dropper bottle filling machine, arguing the machine's breakdown caused extensive interruption to business activities that would trigger the policy, according to a complaint removed to California federal court Wednesday.
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June 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a legal doctrine designed to curtail duplicative litigation prevents parties who lose in state court from appealing in federal district court even if the state case is still pending.
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June 18, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled Thursday that the federal government cannot bar a drug user from owning guns, saying that the prosecution of a Texas man accused of owning a gun while being a marijuana user was inconsistent with the Second Amendment right to bear arms.