Trump Unveils IVF Drug Pricing Deal: 'We Want More Babies'

By Hannah Albarazi

President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled two initiatives he said were designed to enhance the accessibility and affordability of in vitro fertilization.

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Texas Panel Blocks Hospital Subpoenas In Trans Care Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A Texas appellate court on Thursday directed a trial court to withdraw an order requiring two Dallas hospitals to turn over documents concerning alleged gender affirming care, saying the lower court abused its discretion since nonparty patients had motions for protection pending in another court.

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Calif. Hospitals Sue Over New Healthcare Cost Increase Caps

By Bonnie Eslinger

The California Hospital Association hit the state's Office of Health Care Affordability and others with a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming they violated state law with new rules that aim to limit increases in consumer health care costs by curbing hospital spending.

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US Chamber Sues To Block Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block a planned increase in the cost of highly coveted H-1B visas, saying the proposed $100,000 fee would have a "devastating effect" on American businesses, particularly those in the tech, healthcare, higher education and manufacturing sectors.

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Generics Makers Urge 3rd Circ. To Nix Price-Fixing Classes

By Matthew Perlman

Actavis and Mylan have urged the Third Circuit to reverse the certification of two classes of buyers for a pair of medications in the sprawling multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the generic drug industry.

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Fla. Hospital Seeks To Slash $70M Verdict, Cites Medicaid Cap

By Carolina Bolado

Tampa General Hospital is asking a Florida state court to slash more than $50 million from a $70 million award to a 42-year-old woman whose stroke went undiagnosed at the hospital, arguing that state law caps noneconomic damages awards for Medicaid recipients.

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3 Firms Seek Lead Roles In Conn. Medical Data Breach Suit

By Brian Steele

Attorneys with three plaintiffs' firms are seeking appointment as interim co-lead counsel and liaison counsel in a series of proposed class actions that they want to consolidate, over a Connecticut medical rehabilitation network accused of waiting nine months to let patients know it was hit with a cyberattack that exposed private information.

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6 Firms To Lead Aflac Data Breach Suit In Georgia

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge said Wednesday he's tapping six attorneys from as many firms to lead a proposed class action that was consolidated this summer out of nearly two dozen suits filed over an alleged data breach at Aflac Inc.

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Bankrupt Rite Aid Trust Sues Walgreens Over Opioid Costs

By Jarek Rutz

A trustee for Rite Aid Corp.'s bankruptcy estate has sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and a subsidiary, Walgreen Co., in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the pharmacy giant of failing to cover tens of millions of dollars in opioid epidemic-related litigation costs that it had agreed to cover.

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Bavarian Nordic Gets Sweetened $3.1B Bid But Hurdles Linger

By Al Barbarino

Danish vaccine biotech Bavarian Nordic on Thursday urged shareholders to accept a sweetened, roughly $3.1 billion buyout bid from a group of private equity firms, but the shareholder acceptances required for a deal to proceed remain well short of the 75% minimum. 

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Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

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Loan Forgiveness Overhaul May Chill Legal Aid Work

By Alison Knezevich

Civil legal services groups and public defenders say the Trump administration's proposed change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would politicize the initiative and make it harder to recruit attorneys to jobs that pay less than the private sector.

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Atty Quits Ga. Bar's 'Facade' Committee On Client Solicitation

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney resigned Friday as head of the state bar's committee on attorney-client solicitation, accusing the bar of not even "reaching for a garden hose" while unlawful solicitation of accident victims has spread "like wildfire" across the Peach State.

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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 Johnson & Johnson hit with a £1 billion ($1.34 billion) claim for allegedly selling contaminated baby powder, Carter-Ruck bring a claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and Hewlett Packard file a probate claim against the estate of Mike Lynch.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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NY Court Orders Hearing On Counsel Conflict In Drug Case

By Elizabeth Daley

A man who pled guilty to gun and drug charges and was sentenced to 12 years in prison can argue for a new trial due to ineffective counsel after a similarly culpable co-defendant got a light sentence allegedly due to cooperation between their attorneys, a New York state appeals court said in a reversal.

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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

By Jack Karp

The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Ga. Judge Resigns After DUI Arrest Outside Fla. Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia Superior Court jurist who led the state's Council of Superior Court Judges stepped down from the bench Thursday after his driving under the influence arrest last week outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club.

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UC Law School Can Drop Hastings Name, Appeals Court Says

By Andrea Keckley

California is allowed to drop Serranus Clinton Hastings' name from the University of California's San Francisco-based law school, a state appeals court has ruled, backing a trial judge's decision to toss a lawsuit filed by the former chief state Supreme Court justice's descendants and various school alumni.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Caldwell Cassady & Curry PC and Miller Fair Henry PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury found Samsung must pay nearly $445.5 million for infringing four wireless communication patents.

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Liberty Mutual Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Citation Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A St. Louis federal court is weighing whether to sanction Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company's lawyers after they submitted a motion containing citation errors and then, after a warning, "somehow" submitted a second motion with the same types of mistakes.

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Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

By Ryan Boysen

The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

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Robbins Geller To Steer REIT Investors' Suit Over $787M Deal

By Sydney Price

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP will lead a proposed class of investors in real estate investment trust Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. who claim they were misled by executives from the REIT ahead of a $787 million merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2023.

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