Trump Admin Can't Undo Block On Drug Rebate Program

By Carolyn Muyskens

A First Circuit panel has refused to lift a district judge's block on a Trump administration plan to pilot a rebate model for a federal drug discount program that benefits low-income patients, saying the federal government is unlikely to win its appeal.

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Virginia Justices Order New Trial In $2B Trade Secrets Case

By Ivan Moreno

The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state appellate court decision that vacated Appian Corp.'s $2 billion trade secrets award against software competitor Pegasystems Inc., saying the decision correctly ordered a new trial because errors from the trial judge led to the biggest jury award in Virginia history.

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Organ Procurer Says CMS Rule Will Toss Industry Into Chaos

By Mark Payne

A North Carolina-based organ procurement organization wants a federal court to toss aside a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule taking effect this year that will alter how organ procurers are certified, arguing the rule pits them against one another in a "Hunger-Games-style" competition.

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Alito Recuses From Chevron, Exxon Coastal Pollution Case

By Keith Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday recused himself from considering Chevron and ExxonMobil's effort to place Louisiana pollution lawsuits stemming from the companies' World War II-era production in federal court, just days before the justices hear oral arguments in the case.

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GOP Lawmakers Back Trump's Planned $1.5T Defense Budget

By Madeline Lyskawa

Republican lawmakers at the helm of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees issued a statement Thursday in support of President Donald Trump's announcement that he wants to boost the United States' defense budget to $1.5 trillion next year.

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Ex-Budget Official's Atty Stays On Case At Judge's Urging

By Aaron Keller

Despite an order allowing him to withdraw over a $65,000 fee dispute, a lawyer for former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis late on Thursday agreed to remain on a case after a federal judge urged him to consider seeking payments under the Criminal Justice Act.

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Apparel Co. Seeks $730K From Gov't Over Beret Contract

By Elaine Briseño

An apparel company sued the federal government, hoping to recoup more than $730,000 in costs incurred fulfilling a Defense Logistics Agency contract for military berets after the government approved a change to way the caps were stitched but then rejected them.

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Trump Admin Says Climate Grant Class Suit Is Moot

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration has told the D.C. Circuit that a proposed class action accusing it of illegally terminating a $3 billion environmental justice block grant program is moot because Congress has rescinded the funds that green groups and local governments are seeking to recover.

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Colo. City's Urban Renewal Suit Dismissal Upheld

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado Court of Appeals panel found Thursday that a lower court was correct to dismiss a complaint as moot against the city of Loveland from a group of citizens and former council members alleging the City Council at the time voted on an urban renewal plan without approval from voters.

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Ardent Health Investors Sue Over Revenue Accounting Issues

By Sydney Price

Tennessee-based healthcare provider Ardent Health Inc. was hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing it of misleading investors about the collectability of accounts receivable and the sufficiency of the company's malpractice liability insurance, saying shares fell over 30% several weeks ago after the company reported disappointing earnings due to those issues.

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Brief

Fed. Circ. Affirms Navy Doesn't Owe Contractor Labor Costs

By Elaine Briseño

The Federal Circuit affirmed an Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals decision denying a materials supplier $1.15 million in labor costs allegedly owed by the U.S. Navy, finding the blanket purchase agreement did not separate out that expense.

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GAO Denies Protest Of $223M Navy Engineering Contract

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a protest over the way the U.S. Navy scored technical factors when awarding a $223 million engineering contract, saying the agency reasonably found that the losing proposal did not discuss detailed training plans.

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Greenberg Traurig Adds Ex-Prosecutor In Long Island

By Emily Sawicki

Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a former assistant U.S. attorney as a shareholder in its litigation practice, bulking up the commercial litigation, government investigations and regulatory capabilities of its Long Island, New York, offices.

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Series

Muay Thai Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Muay Thai kickboxing has taught me that in order to win, one must stick to one's game plan and adapt under pressure, just as when facing challenges by opposing counsel or judges, says Mark Schork at Feldman Shepherd.

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How 11th Circ.'s Zafirov Decision Could Upend Qui Tam Cases

Oral argument before the Eleventh Circuit last month in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates suggests that the court may affirm a lower court's opinion that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are unconstitutional — which could wreak havoc on pending and future qui tam cases, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a collapsed investment firm revive a $15 million dispute with a hedge fund, major Hollywood studios bring an IP claim against the U.K.'s largest internet providers over illegal streaming, and the Department of Health and Social Care sue the law firm and barrister representing it in a pharma competition damages case.

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Jones Day To Help Restore David Bowie's Old London Home

By Jamie Lennox

Jones Day's charitable foundation will help to restore the childhood home of musical icon David Bowie before it opens to the public in late 2027, the historical trust leading the project said Friday.

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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.

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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says

By Rachel Rippetoe

When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered in appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.

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Calif. Wage Suit Settles Months After Atty Admits To AI Mishap

By Emily Sawicki

A proposed wage and hour class action that drew the legal world's attention in November after the plaintiff's counsel admitted to using a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a botched motion has now ended, with a Northern California federal judge granting a joint dismissal following a settlement agreement.

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NJ Justices Nix Atty Registration Fee Hike After Bar Pushback

By Rose Krebs

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected a request to raise the annual registration fee for attorneys after the state's bar association complained that a proposed $27 hike for certain attorneys, following prior year increases, was too much at a time when they and their firms face "significantly increasing operational costs."

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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight

By Ryan Boysen

A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In technology, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by legal departments will be a major concern for general counsel seeking to control costs in the New Year. And in labor matters, the National Labor Relations Board has a new general counsel along with a quorum and is ready to start deciding cases again.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.

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Biz Owner's RICO Suit Says 5 Calif. Attys Helped Loot IT Co.

By Daniel Connolly

A business owner has filed a lawsuit this week accusing five attorneys from five different small California law firms of conspiring with his ex-business partner to steal assets from a company the two had jointly owned.

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Ramey Ducks Blackberry's Sanctions Bid Over 'Frivolous' Suit

By Elliot Weld

Patent attorney Bill Ramey has avoided sanctions requested by BlackBerry Corp. for what the smartphone company called the "frivolous and unreasonable" way he litigated a case brought on behalf of Silent Communications LLC.

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