Jury Clears Novo Nordisk Of Medicaid Fraud Over Blood Drug

By Ben Adlin

A Tacoma federal jury cleared Novo Nordisk on Friday of allegations that it defrauded Washington state's Medicaid and Medicare systems by paying kickbacks and promoting off-label use to illegally boost prescriptions of its hemophilia drug NovoSeven.

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Block Says Cash App Probe, Bigger SF Tax Bill Could Cost It

By Aislinn Keely

Jack Dorsey's fintech firm Block Inc. told investors that it may take a financial hit from a multistate probe into its mobile payments platform CashApp, and remains locked in a separate multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the County of San Francisco over its bitcoin sales.

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Judge Denies Injunction Bid In Baby Carrier TM Fight

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge has denied a request for a preliminary injunction from a company suing a rival for trademark infringement in relation to baby carriers, saying she wasn't convinced that consumers were likely to be confused by the two products.

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Ill. Resident Wins Cert. In Mortgage Marketing Robocall Case

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois resident has received the green light to pursue claims against The Federal Savings Bank regarding mortgage marketing robocalls on behalf of more than 2 million people nationwide who allegedly received similar solicitations.

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Supreme Court Temporarily Pauses Full SNAP Payments

By Rae Ann Varona and Rachel Riley

The U.S. Supreme Court Friday evening temporarily paused a Rhode Island federal judge's orders compelling the Trump administration to fully fund November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and transfer roughly $4 billion by the end of the day, hours after the First Circuit denied the administration's emergency request.

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Altria, NJOY Rip 'Unconstitutional' ITC Patent Proceeding

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. International Trade Commission's process for appointing its administrative law judges is unconstitutional, Altria Group and its NJOY vaping subsidiary alleged Friday in urging a Virginia federal court to block an ITC patent infringement proceeding against them.

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Fed Faces Dem Grilling Over 30% Supervision Staff Cut Plan

By Jon Hill

The Federal Reserve's plan to cut its bank supervision workforce by 30% is facing fresh scrutiny from the Senate Banking Committee's top Democrat, who is calling on the central bank to explain how the downsizing will affect its ability to police Wall Street.

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Fed's Miran Says Stablecoins Spur Demand For Treasurys

By Aislinn Keely

Federal Reserve Gov. Stephen Miran said Friday that he believes stablecoins are already increasing demand for U.S. Treasury bonds, and that continued adoption of the stable-value tokens could lead to lower interest rates in the future.

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Hemp Industry Urges Congress To Let States Regulate Wares

By Sam Reisman

A coalition of attorneys representing interests in the hemp cannabinoid beverage space are urging federal lawmakers not to enact legislation that they say could shut down the industry and to allow states to continue to regulate it without obstruction.

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DOJ Starts Price-Fix Probe Of Meatpackers Amid Trump Posts

By Gina Kim

The U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation into alleged price-fixing by meatpacking companies, following social media posts by President Trump accusing "Majority Foreign Meat Packers" of colluding to drive up prices.

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Texas AG: Roblox Not Protecting Kids From 'Pixel Pedophiles'

By Rae Ann Varona

Texas has sued Roblox Corp. in state court, accusing the multibillion-dollar company of deceiving parents about the safety of its popular online gaming platform and allowing children to wander in what the state called an "unregulated universe" shared with predators.

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Texas AG Defends App Store Law Against Free Speech Claims

By MJ Koo

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has pushed back on efforts to block the state's new App Store Accountability Act, telling a federal court that the measure's parental-consent and age-verification rules don't restrict speech but simply help parents oversee what apps their kids can download.

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NCAA Bans 6 More Basketball Players In Betting Probe

By Elaine Briseño

The NCAA permanently banned six Division 1 basketball players from universities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arizona for their roles in either manipulating games or sharing information with bettors in three separate cases, the organization said Friday.

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Nike Beats Bid To Revive Greenwashing Claims At 8th Circ.

By Craig Clough

The Eighth Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing Nike of greenwashing by falsely claiming that some of its clothing is sustainably made, holding that the lower court did not abuse its discretion when it nixed the complaint with prejudice because the plaintiff chose not to file amended claims.

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Athena Bitcoin Hit With Class Action Over Consumer Fees

By Sydney Price

Athena Bitcoin Inc., an operator of so-called bitcoin automated teller machines, was hit with a consumer's proposed class action in Florida federal court accusing it of charging customers excessive and undisclosed fees and operating without a proper money transmitting license.

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Panel Weighs If Baby Lounger Co. Can Still Fight CPSC Label

By Jared Foretek

D.C. Circuit judges suggested Friday that the maker of a popular baby lounger may have forfeited its key appellate argument for undoing a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission rule that has forced the product off the market by failing to address the issue during the agency's rulemaking.

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OpenAI Hit With Wave Of Suits Over 'Suicide Coach' ChatGPT

By Dorothy Atkins

ChatGPT users and suicide victims' families hit OpenAI Inc. and its CEO Sam Altman with a wave of lawsuits in California state court Friday, alleging OpenAI knowingly released a dangerously designed sycophantic, psychologically manipulative, addictive version of ChatGPT that at times became a "suicide coach" to vulnerable users who killed themselves.

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Seattle Pot Shop Slapped With Site Tracking Pixel Privacy Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle cannabis dispensary has been hit with a proposed class action in Washington federal court by a customer who claims the retailer shared his private information about medical marijuana appointments and pot purchases with Google and other third parties by using online browser tracking tools on its website.

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Insurer Aims To Recoup Costs In Amazon Battery Fire Case

By Eli Flesch

Penn National Insurance is aiming to recoup costs from Amazon over a North Carolina house fire blamed on a defective, rechargeable vacuum battery the retail giant sold, according to a complaint removed to federal court Thursday from state court.  

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Vegas Hotels Say 9th Circ. Shouldn't Rethink Price-Fixing Suit

By Isaac Monterose

Several Las Vegas hotel operators, two software companies and Blackstone all told the Ninth Circuit to reject a rehearing petition for its August decision for a proposed price-fixing class action that accused hotel operators and Blackstone of conspiring to use the software companies' GuestRev software to set prices for Las Vegas hotel rooms.

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State Child Privacy Laws May Put More Cos. In FTC's Reach

Starting with Texas in January, several new state laws requiring app stores to share user age-related information with developers will likely subject significantly more companies to the Federal Trade Commission’s child privacy rules, altering their compliance obligations, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

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FTC Focus: M&A Approvals A Year After Trump's Election

The Federal Trade Commission merger-enforcement regime a year since President Donald Trump's election shows how merger approvals have been expedited by the triaging out of more deals, grants for early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period, and zeroing in on preparing solutions for the biggest problems, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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What To Note In OCC, FDIC Plan To Standardize Supervision

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s recent proposals to standardize the meaning of "unsafe or unsound practice" and revise the process for issuing matters requiring attention could significantly narrow the scope of activities that spawn enforcement actions, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman.

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Notable Q3 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

The third quarter of 2025 was another eventful quarter for total loss valuation class actions, with a new circuit split developing courtesy of the Sixth Circuit, while insurers continued to see negative results in cost-of-insurance class actions, says Kevin Zimmerman at BakerHostetler.

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Why Appellees Should Write Their Answering Brief First

Though counterintuitive, appellees should consider writing their answering briefs before they’ve ever seen their opponent’s opening brief, as this practice confers numerous benefits related to argument structure, time pressures and workflow, says Joshua Sohn at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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AG Watch: DC Faces Congressional Push To End Elected Role

Given the current structural tension between D.C.'s local autonomy and congressional plenary power, legal and business entities operating in the district should maintain focus on local enforcement gaps, and monitor the legislative process closely, says Lauren Cooper at Hogan Lovells.

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Senate Committee To Investigate Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a hearing next week to consider impeachment of "rogue" federal judges, according to an announcement on Monday.

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After Exit, Judge Cites White House 'Assault On Rule Of Law'

By Emily Sawicki

A Boston federal judge who recently announced his resignation has penned a public letter describing why he stepped down after four decades on the federal bench, saying he could no longer "bear to be restrained" from speaking out against the Trump administration.

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Shutdown Deal Funds Justices' Security, Public Defender Pay

By Courtney Bublé

The government funding agreement reached in the Senate on Sunday includes funding for public defenders, some of whom haven't been paid since July, and security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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Judge To Review Grand Jury Materials In Comey Indictment

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge said he would review grand jury materials in camera to see if any privileged information was used to secure the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress.

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Ex-Judges, US Attys Urge Axing 'Political' Indictment Of NY AG

By Lauren Berg

A bipartisan group of former federal judges and U.S. attorneys on Monday threw their weight behind New York Attorney General Letitia James' bid to dismiss the indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud, rebuking the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and slamming the prosecution's apparent political motivations.

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Fitch Even, Ex-Client Settle $1.2M Fee Fight

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge suspended all briefing deadlines Monday in Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO, following the parties' signal that they've resolved their legal issues in principle.

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Trump Pardons Giuliani, Others Accused Of Election Crimes

By Emily Sawicki

President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned scores of lawyers accused of attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell, according to a social media post created by the president's pardon attorney, Ed Martin.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's top court issued a flurry of rulings last week and heard arguments on recently passed legislation that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts while the Court of Chancery passed on another round of arguments over control of Caribbean broadcaster Caribevision.

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