Nearly 5,000 pharmacies accuse Prime Therapeutics LLC of entering into an unlawful price-fixing agreement with rival pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. to deflate pharmacies' reimbursement rates and inflate their fees, according to a new lawsuit filed in Seattle federal court.
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5,000 Pharmacies Accuse Prime Therapeutics Of Price-Fixing

By Lauren Berg

Nearly 5,000 pharmacies accuse Prime Therapeutics LLC of entering into an unlawful price-fixing agreement with rival pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. to deflate pharmacies' reimbursement rates and inflate their fees, according to a new lawsuit filed in Seattle federal court.

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3 Firms Guide Vertex's $10B Buy Of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

By Hailey Konnath

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is advising Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. in its $10 billion acquisition of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is being represented by both Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Monday.

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CVS To Pay $36.5M To Settle States' Insulin FCA Suits

By Hailey Konnath

CVS has agreed to shell out $36.5 million to put to rest a handful of False Claims Act suits from states and the federal government, which allege the pharmacy chain submitted fraudulent Medicaid claims after giving patients more insulin than they were prescribed and lying about refill timelines.

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DOJ Urges DC Circ. Not To Freeze Medical Pot Rescheduling

By Sam Reisman

The U.S. Department of Justice has urged the D.C. Circuit not to grant a request to freeze a final rule rescheduling medical marijuana while opponents challenge the policy in a case in which various industry stakeholders are wrangling to participate.

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LA's Pacifica Hospital Of The Valley Files $100M+ Ch. 11

By Rick Archer

Pacifica Hospital of the Valley, a 231-bed Los Angeles hospital, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with more than $100 million in liabilities.

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SUPREME COURT

Analysis

After Tense Terms, Hints Of High Court Harmony With Circuits

By Jeff Overley

Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.

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Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.

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Analysis

The Moments That Shaped The Monsanto Decision

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.

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LITIGATION

Analysis

Top Florida News: 2026 Midyear Report

By Carolina Bolado

The first half of 2026 brought long-awaited rulings providing clarity on the punitive damages pleading standard in Florida and the extent of a law allowing U.S. victims of Cuban property seizures to seek damages, as well as a high-profile guilty verdict in a rare foreign agent criminal trial. Here, Law360 looks at these and other notable developments from Florida so far this year.

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Analysis

International Trade Policy To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2026

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump's trade strategy continues to disrupt business planning as importers await new U.S. tariffs to mitigate, monitor litigation involving refunds for illegal duties paid and prepare for increased risks of enforcement and unforeseen cost hikes in the second half of 2026. Here, Law360 examines the international trade policy matters to watch for the rest of the year.

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Ex-Rehab CEO Says Smear Campaign Forced His Ouster

By Brian Steele

Numerous directors and executives of a high-end residential addiction rehab center in Connecticut engaged in a concerted pattern of spying, lying and character assassination that forced the facility's president and CEO to quit, according to a sprawling new lawsuit in state court.

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Mich. Medicaid Services Dispute Sent Back To Mediation

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Monday ordered the parties back to mediation in a long-running dispute over Medicaid-funded services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities after disagreements emerged over compliance with a court-approved settlement agreement. 

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DOD, Humana Seek Toss Of $270K Tricare Coverage Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

The U.S. Department of Defense and a Humana unit urged a D.C. federal court to toss allegations that they wrongfully denied Tricare coverage for a minor's inpatient mental health treatment, arguing the minor's parents lack standing because they weren't billed for the treatment at issue.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

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Roundup

NC Biz Court Bulletin: Rapid-Fire Rulings, Word Of Warning

By Hayley Fowler

Summer is heating up in North Carolina Business Court with a slew of recent rulings, including one greenlighting a data breach class action brought by current and former workers who allege Charlotte-based Bojangles failed to guard their personal information from hackers.

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Brief

3M, Chubb Settle Suit Over Warming Device Defense Coverage

By Gianna Ferrarin

3M Co. and Chubb unit Federal Insurance Co. reached a deal resolving a dispute over insurance coverage for thousands of product liability lawsuits claiming that a 3M post-surgery warming device caused patients to develop infections.

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Brief

Ill. Hospital Nonprofit Agrees To Settle Tobacco Fee Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A nonprofit hospital operator agreed to resolve a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully charged employees who used tobacco an additional fee to obtain health insurance, according to a Monday filing in Illinois federal court.

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Brief

Diagnostic Co.'s Oversight Reforms Deal Gets Final OK

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge has given final approval to a deal ending shareholder derivative claims that diagnostics company CareDx's executives and directors damaged the company by concealing its scheme to inflate its testing services revenue.

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Clarivate Sells Life Sciences And Healthcare Biz For $600M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Analytics company Clarivate PLC on Monday announced that it has agreed to sell its Life Sciences & Healthcare segment to investment firm Altaris LLC in a $600 million deal built by three law firms.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Maine's Expanded Health Deal Reviews Complicate M&A

A pair of recently approved Maine competition laws establish notice and approval requirements for certain healthcare transactions and expand state antitrust oversight, creating new hurdles for dealmakers as states take a more aggressive role in policing healthcare consolidation, especially involving private equity, say attorneys at McDermott.

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Immigration Ruling Maps Alternative To Universal Injunctions

A Rhode Island federal court's decision in Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. USCIS vacating policies that froze key immigration adjudications for nationals of 39 countries, and paused asylum applications altogether, suggests how practitioners might press for the Administrative Procedure Act's bad faith exception to record review and seek vacatur as a viable alternative to universal injunctions, says Kemal Hepsen at Mandamus Lawyers.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Affordable Care LLC

Amazon.com Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Burke Inc.

CVS Health Corp.

Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Clarivate PLC

ClearList LLC

Connecticut Bar Association

Connecticut Fair Housing Center

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc.

D.R. Horton Inc.

Decision Resources Group

Disability Rights Michigan

EchoStar Corp.

Evernorth Health Services

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

First Bank (Hamilton, NJ)

Fort Point Capital

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Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Humana Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Johnson & Johnson

Kennedy Krieger Institute Inc.

Kyndryl Holdings Inc.

Lee Memorial Health System

Liberty Media Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Marvel Entertainment LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Michigan Poverty Law Program

Monsanto Co.

Morgan Stanley

Nasdaq Inc.

National Community Pharmacists Association

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Peloton Interactive Inc.

Prime Therapeutics LLC

Rock Creek Advisors LLC

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Smart Approaches to Marijuana

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

The Carle Foundation

The Cigna Group

Therapeutics Inc.

UCLA School of Law

University of Maryland Medical System

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Arnold & Porter

Baker Donelson

Berger Montague

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Bragar Eagel

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Clement & Murphy

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Davis Polk

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Harris Beach Murtha

Hoekenga Machado

Hogan Lovells

Jones Day

Keller Postman

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Levi & Korsinsky

Logan Vance

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

McDonald Carano

Meagher & Geer

Miller Johnson Snell

Morrison & Foerster

Ogletree Deakins

Outside Legal Counsel PLC

Pachulski Stang

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Raines Feldman

Rosen Law Firm PA

Sherman Silverstein

Sidley Austin

Silver Golub

Skadden Arps

Steptoe LLP

Stoel Rives

Susman Godfrey

Terrell Marshall

Thompson Coburn

Torridon Law

Tressler LLP

Troutman

Troutman Law Office

Watstein Terepka

Wiggin & Dana

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

Zeldes Needle

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

California Attorney General's Office

Congressional Research Service

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Defense Health Agency

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Union

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Reserve System

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Indiana Attorney General's Office

Internal Revenue Service

Maine Department of Health and Human Services

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

NAFTA

TRICARE

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court