6th Circ. Panel Shows No Leanings On PBM Jurisdiction Fight

By Mark Payne

A Sixth Circuit appeals panel gave few hints Thursday on whether it would send back to state court a lawsuit from Ohio alleging that pharmacy benefit managers were driving up prescription prices through rebate schemes. 

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Failed ACA Credit Extension Votes Leave Costs In Limbo

By Asha Glover

The Senate failed Thursday to pass procedural votes on two healthcare proposals to address the upcoming lapse in the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits, including a proposal by Democrats to extend the subsidies for three years.

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Epic Systems Is Monopolizing EHR Market, Texas AG Suit Says

By Gianna Ferrarin

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hit Epic Systems Corp. with an antitrust suit in state court on Wednesday alleging the company is illegally seeking to monopolize markets for electronic health records software.

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Life Insurers Exempt From Ill. Genetic Privacy Law, Court Says

By Hope Patti

An Illinois state appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a man's suit claiming two State Farm life insurers violated Illinois' genetic information privacy law, finding a section barring the use of genetic protected health information for underwriting purposes does not apply to life insurance companies.

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LA Bellwether Jury To Decide If J&J Hid Talc Risk For Decades

By Craig Clough

An attorney for one of two women who claim Johnson & Johnson's talcum products caused their ovarian cancer told a California jury Thursday in a bellwether trial's closing arguments that the company hid the health risks of talc for decades, while the company's attorney insisted the science is on their side.

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Group Seeks Cannabis Reclassification Regarding Tax Status

By Jaqueline McCool

Cannabis shouldn't be categorized as a Schedule 1 or 2 drug, so tax law regarding the sale of illegal drugs shouldn't be applied to cannabis sales, a coalition of cannabis industry groups told the U.S. Tax Court in an amicus brief Thursday.

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EEOC Challenges Care Co.'s Bid For Win In Harassment Suit

By Celeste Bott

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is pushing back on a nursing home and rehabilitation center operator's bid for a pretrial win in a suit alleging it failed to act when a nurse was sexually harassed by her supervisor, saying that several disputed facts require a jury to weigh in.

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Trial Record Backs Gender-Affirming Care, Ohio Justices Told

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of transgender youths and their families urged Ohio's highest court to affirm their win overturning state restrictions on gender-affirming care, arguing undisputed evidence at trial backed their arguments on the safety and effectiveness of the treatment.

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DOJ-UnitedHealth Deal Requiring Home Health Sale OK'd

By Bryan Koenig

A Maryland federal judge signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice settlement resolving its challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion acquisition of home health and hospice company Amedisys, under a deal requiring the sale of least 164 locations across 19 states.

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LAPD Settles Suit Over Pot Raid That Destroyed MRI Machine

By Jonathan Capriel

An X-ray and imaging clinic in North Hollywood looks ready to settle a lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles Police Department of executing a raid on the erroneous assumption that it was an illicit marijuana grow site, destroying an MRI machine with a rifle in the process.

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4 Firms Guide As Arcline Exits Medical Tech Co. In $685M Deal

By Al Barbarino

Perimeter Solutions Inc. has agreed to acquire Medical Manufacturing Technologies LLC from Arcline Investment Management for approximately $685 million in cash, including certain tax benefits.

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Sidley Guides Diagnostic Imaging Firm Lumexa's $463M IPO

By Abigail Harrison

Private equity-backed diagnostic imaging provider Lumexa Imaging Holdings Inc., led by Sidley Austin LLP, began trading Thursday on the Nasdaq Global Select Market after pricing a $463 million initial public offering.

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Elevance Health Adds Former Pfizer GC To Its Board

By Christine DeRosa

Insurer Elevance Health has appointed former Pfizer Inc. general counsel Amy Schulman, currently a managing partner of Polaris Partners, to serve on its board of directors.

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Series

Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

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Bonus Spotlight

Pallas Offers Up To $232K In Bonuses To Top US, UK Lawyers

By Tracey Read

Litigation boutique Pallas Partners announced Thursday that it is offering high-performing senior U.S. and U.K. associates and counsel as much as $232,000 in bonuses this year.

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'Totally Unacceptable': Alsup Rips Feds In Student Loan Deal

By Bonnie Eslinger

U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday denied the U.S. Department of Education's request for an 18-month extension to process over 200,000 loan cancellation applications for students claiming they were defrauded by colleges they attended, calling it "totally unacceptable" and setting an April deadline to get the job done.

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White House Pushes Halligan's Confirmation Despite Hurdles

By Courtney Bublé

The White House is forging ahead with its bid to win confirmation of the president's controversial pick for U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after a federal judge ruled she was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Grassley Urges White House To Step It Up On Noms

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a message for the White House Thursday: "Get on the ball" with nominations for U.S. attorneys and the judiciary.

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NJ Sens. Urge Cooperation On Next NJ US Attorney Nom

By Courtney Bublé

The New Jersey senators are looking to collaborate with the White House to find a new nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey after the president's initial pick failed.

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DC Firm Faces Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

A Washington, D.C., law firm failed to notify clients of a data breach that compromised their personal information for six months, a proposed class action alleged in federal court on Wednesday.

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Trump Orders Review Of Proxy Advisers' 'Substantial Power'

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order that aims to scrutinize the influence that proxy adviser firms like Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass Lewis & Co. LLC have, including in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion agendas.

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Feds Reportedly Fail To Reindict NY AG Letitia James, Again

By Lauren Berg

New York Attorney General Letitia James' attorney Thursday celebrated reports that another Virginia federal grand jury declined to reindict her on charges of mortgage fraud, the second jury in a week to reject a case President Donald Trump had pushed prosecutors to pursue against a political opponent he's called "guilty as hell."

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Grants Can Be Axed For Political Reasons, DOJ Atty Says

By Jared Foretek

A Trump administration lawyer said Thursday that the president had blanket authority to cancel every discretionary grant slated for states that broke against him in the general election, and it wouldn't amount to a violation of the Fifth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.

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10th Circ. Reveals Judge Contacted Ex-Atty In 'Tiger King' Case

By Ivan Moreno

A Tenth Circuit panel considering a copyright infringement claim against Netflix over a video clip in its popular "Tiger King" docuseries has requested the parties' input on whether a judge on the panel should recuse himself after inadvertently contacting a former attorney of the plaintiff last month on an unrelated legal matter.

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Tracking Challenges To USPTO's Discretion Policy

By Dani Kass

Leaders at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have significantly altered the Patent Trial and Appeal Board playing field since March, making changes to institution reviews that have led to unprecedented levels of petition denials. A steady stream of companies has challenged those changes through mandamus petitions to the Federal Circuit, and here Law360 tracks where those petitions stand.

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SEC Must Provide Names To Compliance Chief In Fraud Suit

By Katryna Perera

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to comply with a chief compliance officer's request for the names of agency staffers familiar with his whistleblower claims as he defends allegations that he played a role in a purportedly fraudulent stock offering by a "sham" energy company.

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