As part of an expansive effort to tee up U.S. Supreme Court review, pharmaceutical industry-backed opponents of Medicare's drug price negotiations entered less-than-hospitable territory at the Sixth Circuit, where judges pointedly questioned a local business group's basis for challenging a national healthcare program.
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'Forum Shopping' Center Stage At 6th Circ. Drug Pricing Args

By Jeff Overley

As part of an expansive effort to tee up U.S. Supreme Court review, pharmaceutical industry-backed opponents of Medicare's drug price negotiations entered less-than-hospitable territory at the Sixth Circuit, where judges pointedly questioned a local business group's basis for challenging a national healthcare program.

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Holmes Seeks 2 Year Cut, Commits To Criminal Justice Work

By Hailey Konnath

Elizabeth Holmes has asked a California federal judge to knock two years off her 11-year prison sentence, arguing she's eligible for the adjustment under sentencing guidelines and has spent her time behind bars tutoring and advocating for her fellow prisoners.

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Wis. Children's Hospital Denied Exemption For Hospital Tower

By Michael Nunes

The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin isn't eligible for a property tax exemption for a tower built in its medical complex, as it was unused during the tax year, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled.

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Humana, Aetna Underpaid For 340B Drugs, New Suits Say

By Gianna Ferrarin

Humana and Aetna are facing new claims in a trio of suits filed in North Carolina federal court alleging they underpaid health systems for drugs purchased through the federal 340B drug discount program.

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7th Circ. Backs Hartford's Denial Of Benefits To Ex-PwC Exec

By Rae Ann Varona

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit by a former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP executive accusing the accounting firm's disability insurance provider of wrongly denying her long-term disability benefits for her fibromyalgia, affirming a lower court's "detailed and diligent opinion" that found her condition limiting, but not disabling.

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Florida, Sandoz Say They've Fixed Generic Drug Price-Fix Deal

By Matthew Perlman

The Florida Attorney General's Office and Sandoz Inc. have told a Connecticut federal court they've fixed the problems the court identified with a generic drug price-fixing settlement after other states with claims in the case objected to a clause in the deal.

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POLICY & REGULATION

DHS Tightens Rules On Info Disclosure, Medical Exam Validity

By Britain Eakin

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued two policy updates this week, one changing how the agency will disclose derogatory information when it intends to issue an adverse decision, and another reversing course on how long medical exams are valid.

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LITIGATION

WWE Accuser's Firm Blames PACER For Late Response

By Brian Steele

Counsel for the law firm representing a former World Wrestling Entertainment staffer on sex trafficking and abuse claims has objected to a motion for default in a related defamation suit, said he couldn't appear in the case earlier in part because of difficulty accessing the federal judiciary's electronic docket system, but he said he would have asked for more time to respond anyway.

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Arbitration Order Reversed In Fla. Medical Office Battery Case

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court reversed an order for a doctor's lawsuit alleging she was battered by a fellow shareholder of their medical practice to be resolved out of court, allowing the case to be tried before a jury.

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Insurer Says Hair Relaxer Maker Not Covered In Cancer Suits

By Elizabeth Daley

An insurer told a Georgia federal court that it had no duty to defend a hair relaxer and beauty products manufacturer in underlying litigation filed by people who alleged that chemicals in hair relaxer products the company produced caused them to develop cancer and suffer bodily injuries.

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Fla. Doc Sues In Del. Alleging Multistate Group Conspiracy

By Jeff Montgomery

A Florida doctor and emergency room companies serving departments in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma have sued multiple entities in Delaware's Court of Chancery allegedly involved in an elaborate private equity-tied scheme to duck bans on the corporate practice of medicine.

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DEALS

5 Firms Guide $1.25B BioNTech, CureVac Oncology Deal

By Al Barbarino

German biotech firm BioNTech SE said Thursday that it will acquire CureVac NV, a clinical-stage mRNA specialist, in an all-stock oncology-focused deal valuing it at about $1.25 billion and involving five legal advisers. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

5 Open Questions About FDA's AI-Assisted Review Plans

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently touted the completion of a generative artificial intelligence program for scientific reviewers and plans for agencywide deployment to speed up reviews of premarket applications, but there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the tools' ability to protect trade secrets, avoid bias and more, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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How Trump Administration's Antitrust Agenda Is Playing Out

Under the current antitrust agency leadership, the latest course in merger enforcement, regulatory approach and key sectors shows a marked shift from Biden-era practices and includes a return to remedies and the commitment to remain focused on the bounds of U.S. law, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

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Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off against Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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IRS, Law Firm Settle $790K Worker Credit Refund Suit

By Anna Scott Farrell

The Internal Revenue Service settled a lawsuit seeking more than $790,000 in pandemic-era worker tax credits by a law firm that had claimed the agency was delaying paying out, according to a dismissal order Friday by a Pennsylvania federal court.

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7 Willkie Partners Join Cooley Over Trump EO Deal

By Aebra Coe

Seven partners have left Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, including both managing partners of the firm's San Francisco office, to join Cooley LLP, reportedly over their former employer's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration related to a potential executive order.

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Jackson Walker, Ex-Judge Facing Class Action Over Romance

By Catherine Marfin

A former bankruptcy judge and Jackson Walker LLP have been hit with another lawsuit over the judge's secret romance with a former firm partner, this time a proposed class action from a group of bondholders of financial company GWG Holdings Inc.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Compliance experts say corporate leaders with business interests south of the border are worried about possible terrorism-related charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with the cartels. Meanwhile, the head of Glass Lewis pushed back against allegations from some lawmakers concerning the firm's "expansive, opaque and ideologically driven influence" on companies. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Beltway Moves: Torridon Law, MoFo, V&E

By Alison Knezevich

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to Torridon Law PLLC this week in one of the latest high-profile moves in the Washington, D.C., legal industry over the first half of June.

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Grassley Budget Bill Calls For More Use Of Injunction Bonds

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has released his portion of the budget reconciliation text, which would bolster the use of injunction bonds to raise the stakes for plaintiffs seeking to halt White House initiatives.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits.

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Akerman Seeks To Move Malpractice Suits From Medical Cos.

By Madison Arnold

Akerman LLP has asked to have two malpractice cases from medical laboratories moved from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade County, where the firm's related unpaid fees case against Rennova Health Inc. is being litigated.

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Former NJ Deputy AG Claims Office Fired Him For His ADHD

By Beverly Banks

A former deputy attorney general who worked on environmental cases for New Jersey accused the state of retaliating against him when he sought accommodations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and later terminated him for his disability.

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2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Trump Appeal Of $5M Assault Verdict

By Cara Salvatore

The full Second Circuit refused Friday to revisit President Donald Trump's challenge to writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million sexual assault finding against him, with two judges dissenting.

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Ex-Attorney Cops To Tax Evasion In Massachusetts

By Anna Scott Farrell

A former attorney pled guilty to tax evasion in a Massachusetts federal court Friday after prosecutors accused him of transferring money to his wife to hide his earnings and using his business accounts to pay for guns and jewelry.

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Wash. High Court Suspends Atty Amid Delays In Bar Probe

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court has suspended an Evergreen state attorney's legal license, at the state bar association's request, for allegedly stalling disciplinary investigations into her work representing student families in two federal lawsuits against school districts.

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The Law Firm Loophole: How Debt Cos. Snare NC Consumers

By Daniel Connolly

A view of Carolina Legal Services' website as it appeared in 2019. The law firm has since closed. (Obtained via the Wayback Machine, a project of the Internet Archive.)

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ANSYS, Inc.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

AbbVie Inc.

Abbott Laboratories

Aetna Inc.

Allergan PLC

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American International Group Inc.

Associated Press

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Finance Inc.

Biogen Inc.

British Broadcasting Corp.

Brown & Brown Inc.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Client Services Inc.

CureVac AG

Discover Bank

Educational Development Corp.

Federalist Society

Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc.

George Washington University

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Hisense Co. Ltd.

Humana Inc.

Ineos Group Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

Institute for Justice

Internet Archive

Investments Ltd.

Lex Machina Inc.

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Manchester United

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Veterans Legal Services Program

National Women's Law Center

Nokia Corp.

North Carolina Justice Center

North Carolina State Bar

Novartis AG

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Pfizer Inc.

Pharmacyclics, Inc.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Progress Software Corp.

Sandoz International GmbH

Severn Trent PLC

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Bozzuto Group Inc.

The Cigna Group

The District of Columbia Bar

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

United Services Automobile Association

Viatris Inc.

Washington & Lee University

Washington State Bar Association

Wells Fargo & Co.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Akerman LLP

Alston & Bird

Bandas Law Firm

Blake Morgan LLP

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Brabners LLP

Brito PLLC

Brown Rudnick

Brownstein Hyatt

Burr & Forman

Clyde & Co

Cole Schotz

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cramer & Anderson

DLA Piper

Dame Law

Davis Wright Tremaine

Day Pitney

DeBofsky Law

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Domnick Cunningham

Donnelly Conroy

Fenwick & West

Foster Garvey

Fox Rothschild

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goldman Davis

Greenberg Traurig

Haynes Boone

Hengeler Mueller

Higgs LLP

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Hurwitz Sagarin

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Karsten & Tallberg

Keker Van Nest & Peters

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Law Office of John D. Cline

Laytons LLP

Lewis Brisbois

Loyens & Loeff

Manatt Phelps

Martin LLP

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Michelman & Robinson

Mitchell & Shapiro

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Myerson Solicitors

NautaDutilh

Ostroff Injury Law

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Personius Melber

Phelps Dunbar

Pinsent Masons

Porter Hedges

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Law

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Rogers Joseph O'Donnell

Rumberger Kirk

Searcy Denney

Setfords Solicitors

Shakespeare Martineau

Sheppard Mullin

Sher Tremonte

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Stinson LLP

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

TLT LLP

Taylor Wessing

Thompson Hine

Torridon Law

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Verrill Dana

Vinson & Elkins

Walker Jones

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Wright Hassall

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Central Intelligence Agency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Attorney General's Office

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Legal Services Corp.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Department of Justice

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Social Security Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court