DOJ Backs Private Claims Against NewYork-Presbyterian

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice has thrown its support behind claims from union benefit funds in New York federal court that mirror the government's own case accusing NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital of blocking cheaper insurance plans.

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Groups Tell 4th Circ. Not To Let Sandoz 'Relitigate' Enbrel

By Bryan Koenig

Pharmaceutical groups and the Washington Legal Foundation backed Amgen in amicus briefs Monday urging the Fourth Circuit not to revive Sandoz's antitrust claims, arguing that if Sandoz wanted to litigate blocked biosimilar competition to Enbrel, it needed to do so when Amgen sued it for patent infringement.

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Align's Invisalign Patents Are Infringed But Invalid, Jury Finds

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's antitrust claims against Align.

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Regeneron Ducks Amgen's Eylea Antitrust Counterclaims

By Bryan Koenig

A West Virginia federal judge dismissed key counterclaims and defenses Tuesday that Amgen had raised against Regeneron's patent infringement lawsuit targeting bids by multiple would-be rivals to produce biosimilar versions of eye medication Eylea, preserving only arguments that Regeneron waited too long to pursue the patent.

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Food Deal Rivals Battle In Chancery Over Competition Claims

By Jarek Rutz

Lawyers for Global Market Foods LLC urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to block the former owner of a food distribution business from competing after selling the company for $58 million, while the sellers argued the buyer is improperly trying to rewrite the parties' contracts and expand negotiated noncompete restrictions.

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Microsoft Can't Stop £140M Copyright Claim Over CAT Remit

By Ronan Barnard

Microsoft failed on Tuesday to block a reseller's £140 million ($188 million) claim over alleged anticompetitive restrictions in the secondary software market, as an appeals court ruled that an antitrust tribunal could decide the copyright issues underpinning the dispute.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Dental Patent Claims In Align Feud

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's finding that they were invalid.

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6th Circ. Says MillerKnoll Owns Rights To Iconic Lamp Design

By Hailey Konnath

The Sixth Circuit Tuesday refused to disturb a lower court's decision awarding intellectual property rights for late designer George Nelson's iconic bubble lamp to furniture company MillerKnoll, ruling that a 2006 royalty agreement authorized the company to use and own those rights.

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Calif. Judge Asks About Standing In Google Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.

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Meta Tries To Trim Facebook Users' UK Class Action

By Joanne Faulkner

Meta on Tuesday told the Court of Appeal that a tribunal wrongly allowed 46 million Facebook users to expand their collective action to seek payments for the use of their personal data because that type of award is unavailable in competition claims.

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Ill. Judge Approves $37M More In PVC Price-Fix Deals

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her early approval Tuesday to more than $37 million in settlements two classes struck with a company defending against accusations that it participated in an illegal price-fixing scheme with other major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers.

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IOC Lets Russia Back Into Olympics Over Ukrainian Protests

By David Steele

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday lifted the suspension of Russia and its athletes put in place shortly after the country invaded Ukraine, with Ukraine's Olympic committee saying that the IOC's move set "a dangerous precedent.''

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Willow Bridge Reaches DOJ Deal To End Price-Fixing Claims

By Nate Beck

Dallas-based residential property manager Willow Bridge Property Co. has become the latest to reach a settlement with authorities in a North Carolina federal lawsuit accusing a host of landlords of fixing apartment prices using software from RealPage.

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Quantum Readiness May Paradoxically Raise Contractor Risk

The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cryptographic dependencies while protecting their vulnerability road map from adversaries, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

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'Tiger King' Funeral Clip Ruling Offers Fair Use Road Map

The Tenth Circuit's decision in Whyte Monkee v. Netflix that the streaming service's use of another party's funeral footage in the docuseries "Tiger King" constituted fair use lays out a framework for producers to apply the four statutory fair use factors to their own projects, says Frank D’Angelo at Loeb & Loeb.

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Sealing The Deal

How Gibson Dunn Helped SpaceX Pull Off Its $75B Global IPO

By Al Barbarino

When SpaceX completed its record-breaking $75 billion initial public offering last month, the transaction was notable not only for its size — the largest IPO ever — but also for breaking new ground in how public offerings can be structured to reach retail investors around the world.

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CEO Cops To Conspiracy In BigLaw Insider Trading Case

By Sydney Price

A Dubai-based CEO and trader has pled guilty in Massachusetts federal court to charges that he worked with a former BigLaw associate and others to carry out a far-reaching insider trading scheme.

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Justices To Defend Court's Budget In Rare Hill Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before House and Senate committees on July 14, marking the first time in seven years that a sitting justice has gone before lawmakers.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Tell Senate To Reject Blanche Nomination

By Emily Sawicki

Hundreds of former Justice Department employees and appointees urged the Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the permanent role, particularly noting what they called Blanche's work toward politicizing the department.

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ChatGPT Edits Weren't 'Knowing' Errors, Conn. Justices Told

By Aaron Keller

A GLG Law LLC lawyer who blamed ChatGPT for misquotes and citation errors in three filings told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday he did not violate an ethics rule requiring candor to the tribunal because his briefs, though inaccurate, contained correct assertions about the law.

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Ogletree Co-Founder Deakins, 'Beacon Of Wisdom,' Dies At 90

By Emily Johnson

A co-founder of the global labor and employment juggernaut Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC died Monday after decades of helping shape the firm's values of honesty and transparency.

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McCarter Atty's Work 'Fell Short' In $20M Deals, Judge Told

By Brian Steele

McCarter & English LLP and one of its Connecticut attorneys failed to uphold the applicable standard of care when advising insurers on $20 million worth of loan transactions that ultimately fell apart because the borrower stopped paying, an expert witness told a Connecticut state court on Tuesday.

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House Dems Push To Ban Judges From Prediction Markets

By Emily Sawicki

Ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday called on the federal judiciary to ban judges from taking part in prediction markets amid growing concerns that court-related wagers could undermine judicial integrity.

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