Adding to sprawling antitrust litigation against pharmaceutical giants, 42 states and territories sued Novartis AG, Sandoz AG and other drug companies in Connecticut federal court Monday, alleging that the companies colluded for years to fix prices and control markets for generic drugs.
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Novartis, Sandoz Face New Generic-Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Abigail Harrison

Adding to sprawling antitrust litigation against pharmaceutical giants, 42 states and territories sued Novartis AG, Sandoz AG and other drug companies in Connecticut federal court Monday, alleging that the companies colluded for years to fix prices and control markets for generic drugs.

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Masimo Investors' $34M Deal In Revenue Suit Gets Initial OK

By Sydney Price

Masimo Corp. and its investors have received initial approval of a $33.8 million deal to settle claims that the medical and audio device company based its sales and revenue projections on unrealistic expectations for demand.

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ImmunityBio Stockholder Targets Soon-Shiong In Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday heard arguments over whether biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong and ImmunityBio Inc.'s board breached their fiduciary duties by approving insider financing that allegedly allowed him to secure equity at deeply discounted prices as the company neared regulatory approval for its lead cancer drug.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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LITIGATION

Trump Admin Sued Over 'Pay-To-Play' Gold Card Program

By Rae Ann Varona

Immigrants and an academic professionals union filed suit Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's "gold card" visa program, telling a D.C. federal court that the "pay-to-play" program unlawfully takes visas away from professionals the existing employment-based visa system prioritizes.

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Amway Looks To Sidestep Gut Drink Trademark Fight In NC

By Hayley Fowler

Multi-level marketing giant Amway is seeking an early exit from a trademark infringement suit brought by a supplement maker in North Carolina, saying it has no ties to the Tar Heel state sufficient to be dragged into court there.

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Medtronic's Bundling Isn't Anticompetitive, Prof Tells Jury

By Craig Clough

A University of Chicago economics professor testified Tuesday in a California federal trial over antitrust claims against Medtronic, saying its practice of bundling its advanced bipolar devices for sales with other products isn't anticompetitive but is actually a very common American practice used by the likes of McDonald's and Costco. 

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Pharma Co. Stole Secrets For LSD Medical Trials, Suit Says

By Mike Curley

A clinical trial services company is suing Definium Therapeutics Inc. in Delaware federal court, alleging that it stole trade secrets during Phase 2 trials of LSD treatments for psychiatric disorders, then passed those secrets on to a rival services company for Phase 3 trials.

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Medical Transport Co. Misclassified Drivers, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A company that transports radioactive medical materials misclassified drivers as independent contractors, leading to minimum wage and overtime violations, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Florida federal court.

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PEOPLE

Alston & Bird Adds Healthcare Regulatory Pro From Goodwin

By Kevin Penton

Alston & Bird LLP has added a healthcare regulatory attorney previously with Goodwin Procter LLP as a partner in Chicago, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Analysis

Squires And Stewart's Patent Office, By The Numbers

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has seen sweeping changes under Director John Squires and Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart, ranging from pro-patent owner policies at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to employment shake-ups that have prompted departures from the agency.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Upshot Of 'Skinny Label' Case May Go Beyond Pharma

The U.S. Supreme Court's pending review of Hikma v. Amarin, over a drugmaker's "skinny label," carries implications for both generics and brand-name pharmaceutical manufacturers, and could shed light on how inducement doctrine should operate in other regulated industries where products have substantial lawful uses, says Jason Shull at Banner Witcoff.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Ex-Pentagon GC Joins Bradley Arant's National Security Team

By Jack Rodgers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has hired the former legal adviser to the National Security Council, who is joining the team in Nashville, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., to work with the firm's Government Enforcement & Investigations and Defense & National Security teams, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Cooley, Ropes & Gray Transactional Attys Move To Latham

By Andrea Keckley

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired two partners to help the firm meet evolving capital and growth demands — a Los Angeles-based emerging companies attorney from Cooley LLP and a New York-based capital markets attorney from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Fla. Judge Can't Nix Death Penalty Ethics Case, Panel Says

By Madison Arnold

A Florida judicial ethics panel has pushed back on an appellate judge's effort to dismiss ethics charges over her purported attempt to influence postconviction litigation in a death penalty case via text messages with a state attorney, rejecting her argument that the charges violate her First Amendment rights.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-Top Public Corruption Prosecutor Rejoins King & Spalding

By Alison Knezevich

The former chief public corruption prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice has returned to King & Spalding LLP, where he worked early in his career, the firm announced Wednesday.

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O'Melveny Supreme Court Ace Joins Hecker Fink

By James Mills

Litigation firm Hecker Fink LLP is expanding its appellate team, announcing Wednesday that an O'Melveny & Myers LLP Supreme Court expert is joining as of counsel.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Atty Nonprofit Claims Denver Police Withheld Discovery Info

By Zach Dupont

An attorney nonprofit organization claimed the Denver Police Department is not complying with Colorado open record laws, arguing in Colorado state court that the department denied a records request seeking information about discovery that wasn't shared with defendants in hundreds of criminal cases.

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DiCello Levitt Taps SEC Vets For Whistleblower Practice

By Emilie Ruscoe

DiCello Levitt has acquired a boutique practice that represents U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblowers, bringing on a pair of former SEC attorneys whose clients have helped the government secure more than $2 billion in monetary sanctions, according to the firm.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Association of University Professors

Amway Corp.

Applied Medical Resources Corp.

Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Bausch Health Cos. Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Costco Wholesale Corp.

Delphi Automotive PLC

Duke University

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

Kitchen United Inc.

Lannett Company, Inc

LinkedIn Corp.

Masimo Corp.

McDonald's Corp.

Medtronic PLC

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

Mind Medicine Inc.

Momentus Inc.

New York University

Northeastern University

Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund

Novartis AG

Public Citizen Inc.

Sandoz International GmbH

Stanford University

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The New York Times Co.

Therapeutics Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Ashby & Geddes

Baker McKenzie

Banner Witcoff

Barack Ferrazzano

Bedell Dittmar

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Butler Curwood

Ciardi Ciardi

Cleary Gottlieb

Coffield PLC

Colombo & Hurd

Cooley LLP

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

DiCello Levitt

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Hagens Berman

Hamilton Lincoln

Hecker Fink

Jordan Richards PLLC

King & Spalding

Knobbe Martens

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lehotsky Keller

Levi & Korsinsky

Libby Hoopes

Loza & Loza

Marshall Gerstein

McDermott Will & Schulte

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Pollard PLLC

Polsinelli PC

Poyner Spruill

Pryor Cashman

Quinn Emanuel

Rathod Mohamedbhai

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Schwegman Lundberg

Seyfarth Shaw

Shah Litigation

Shapiro Arato

Sullivan & Cromwell

Troutman

Wachtel Missry

Wachtell Lipton

Ward & Smith

Whiteford Taylor

Wilkinson Stekloff

Wilson Sonsini

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alaska Department of Law

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Denver District Attorney's Office

Executive Office of the President

Federal Election Commission

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

National Security Council

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Superior Court of Massachusetts

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

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 Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado