Express Scripts on Wednesday agreed to what the Federal Trade Commission called a "landmark settlement" promising major changes to its drug formulary practices, allowing the company to duck out of a case accusing all three of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes.
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Express Scripts Makes 'Fundamental Changes' In FTC Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Express Scripts on Wednesday agreed to what the Federal Trade Commission called a "landmark settlement" promising major changes to its drug formulary practices, allowing the company to duck out of a case accusing all three of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes.

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Keller Williams To Pay $20M To Settle Antitrust Claims

By Celeste Bott

Keller Williams Realty has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve claims that it participated in a decades-long conspiracy to fix real estate broker commissions and inflate home prices, according to a proposed class of homebuyers who are asking an Illinois federal judge to grant preliminary approval to the deal.

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Judge Won't Revive Price Discrimination Suit Against Juul

By Matthew Perlman

An Illinois federal court refused on Wednesday to reconsider a ruling tossing a gas station distributor's lawsuit accusing Juul Labs of giving a rival wholesaler a better deal on e-cigarettes, saying it is still unclear why the distributor removed key allegations from its last complaint.

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FTC Defends Case Over Zillow-Redfin Rental Ads Pact

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is defending its antitrust case challenging a partnership between Zillow Group Inc. and Redfin Corp., telling a Virginia federal court the pact is a clear agreement between the companies to not compete for rental housing advertisements.

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HPE Backs DOJ Bid For Final Merger Deal Approval

By Bryan Koenig

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has endorsed the Justice Department's bid for final approval of a controversial settlement permitting the $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, telling a California federal judge that Democratic state attorneys general have nothing but "vague and inaccurate accusations" that the deal was improper.

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Judge Says $40B Ligado Suit Looks 'Destined' For High Court

By Christopher Cole

Network company Ligado's nearly $40 billion lawsuit accusing the government of wrongly blocking its use of a certain slice of the airwaves seems likely to eventually land in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit's chief judge said Wednesday.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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INTERNATIONAL

Brief

EU Probes Chinese Wind Turbine Co. Over Foreign Subsidies

By Jack McLoone

The European Commission has opened what it is calling an in-depth investigation into a Chinese wind turbine company that may be receiving distortive foreign subsidies.

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LITIGATION

'Careless Or Disingenuous': Judge Rips CareFirst Rethink Bid

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Wednesday refused to reconsider an order reversing course and throwing out key claims in CareFirst's suit against Johnson & Johnson over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara, calling CareFirst's arguments for doing so "either careless or disingenuous."

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Medtronic Owes $381M For Antitrust 'War Games,' Jury Told

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Applied Medical told a California federal jury Wednesday during closing arguments in an antitrust trial against Medtronic that internal documents from the medical device giant show it played illegal "war games" against his client and should pay up to $381 million. 

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Teva Fights Class Cert. Bid In Effexor Antitrust Case

By George Woolston

Teva Pharmaceuticals urged a New Jersey federal judge Wednesday to reject a class certification bid by a group of direct buyers of the antidepressant drug Effexor XR and its generic versions, arguing that the proposed class failed to carry its burden showing that joinder is impracticable.

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Hartford HealthCare Must Provide Docs On $86M Takeovers

By Brian Steele

Hartford HealthCare Corp. must hand over internal documents detailing its $86.1 million acquisitions of two hospitals from bankrupt Prospect Medical to a group of plaintiffs who accuse the health system of trying to create a monopoly for inpatient hospital services, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled.

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Sinclair To Pay $175K For Lost Texts In Price-Fixing MDL

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge has approved a joint stipulation by which Sinclair Broadcast Group agreed to pay $175,000 after it was sanctioned for failing to preserve text message data from more than 50 company-issued cellphones amid discovery in multidistrict litigation over an alleged unlawful price-fixing scheme.

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Gov't Pushes For Greystar Antitrust Settlement Approval

By Isaac Monterose

The federal government pushed back against public comments that criticized its proposed antitrust settlement with landlord Greystar Management Services LLC, telling a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to approve the proposed settlement because it does enough to resolve its claims.

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Fertility Clinic Says Doctors Lured Staff To New Practice

By Julie Manganis

The owners of a Massachusetts fertility clinic say three doctors left to start their own practice and repeatedly violated a non-solicitation agreement to "raid" its staff, according to a complaint filed in state court.

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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Analysis

​What's Left In VLSI-Intel's $3B Patent Litigation

By Dani Kass

Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A Seattle federal judge has ordered a Washington attorney to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ankner & Levy

Arete Law Group

Ballard Spahr

Berger Montague

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohn Lifland

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Danya Perry Law

Dechert LLP

Fairmark Partners LLP

Feldman & Associates PLLC

Foley & Lardner

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Glasser & Glasser

Goldstein & Russell

Gordon Rees

Grasso Law PC

Hagens Berman

Hausfeld LLP

Holland & Knight

Kirkland & Ellis

Knobbe Martens

Koffsky Schwalb

Korein Tillery

Kroger Gardis

Latham & Watkins

Lowey Dannenberg

Manning Gross

Maschoff Brennan

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

MoloLamken

Moore & Van Allen

Munger Tolles

Murphy Ball Stratton

Paul Weiss

Quarles & Brady

Quinn Emanuel

Radice Law Firm

Ramey LLP

Reed Smith

Rule Garza

Saul Ewing

Scandaglia Ryan

Scott&Scott

Selendy Gay

Sheppard Mullin

Shinder Cantor

Shipman & Goodwin

Silver Golub

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Todd & Weld

Wiggin & Dana

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3G Capital

Aetna Inc.

American Bar Association

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Applied Medical Resources Corp.

Barron's

Bayer AG

Boston IVF

CVS Health Corp.

Chamber of Progress

Chevron Corp.

Cisco Systems Inc.

CoStar Group Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Evernorth Health Services

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Finjan Holdings Inc.

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman

Goldwind Science & Technology Co. Ltd.

Google LLC

HSW International Inc.

Hartford HealthCare Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Intel Corp.

International Business Machines Corp.

JUUL Labs Inc.

Jana Partners LLC

Johnson & Johnson

Juniper Networks Inc.

Keller Williams Realty Inc.

Ligado Networks LLC

McDonald's Corp.

Medco Health Solutions Inc.

Medtronic PLC

Mid America Apartment Communities Inc.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association of Realtors

Noble Energy Inc.

OptumRx Inc.

Outliers Inc.

Overstock.com Inc.

Pershing Square Capital Management LP

Pfizer Inc.

Prospect Medical Holdings Inc.

RealPage Inc.

Red Hat Inc.

Renesas Electronics Corp.

Renewable Energy Group Inc.

RentPath LLC

Rite Aid Corp.

SABMiller

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

State Bar of Texas

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Cigna Group

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The New York Times Co.

Toshiba Corp.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

Unilever PLC

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Walmart Inc.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

Yale New Haven Health

Zillow Group Inc.

Zinc Health Services LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Attorney General's Office

Colorado Attorney General's Office

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Connecticut Insurance Department

European Commission

European Union

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Virginia Attorney General's Office

Washington Attorney General's Office