CVS Will Pay $37.8M To Settle Insulin Pen Overbilling Claims

By Mark Payne

CVS has agreed to pay $37.76 million to settle allegations that the major pharmacy retailer violated federal law by overdispensing and overbilling for insulin pens to government healthcare programs, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. 

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Judge Blocks Planned Parenthood Funding Cut In 22 States

By Dan McKay

A Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday stopped the Trump administration from halting Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood clinics in 22 states, ruling the funding cutoff likely violated requirements to warn the states ahead of time about the change.

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Under New Chair, Fed. Vax Panel To Redo Hep B Vote

By Yeji Jesse Lee

The new chair of an influential federal vaccine advisory panel is set to lead a vote this week on whether to roll back federal recommendations that newborns get vaccinated against hepatitis B.

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Fed. Circ. Erases $41.8M Verdict Over Seagen Cancer Drug IP

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit in a precedential opinion Tuesday reversed a $41.8 million verdict against Daiichi Sankyo for infringing a Seagen breast cancer treatment patent, saying a lower court should have found that the patent didn't adequately describe the claimed invention or enable a skilled person to use it.

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Hagens Berman Referred To DOJ For Alleged Misconduct

By Emma Cueto

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday recommended to the U.S. Department of Justice that it investigate powerhouse plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's conduct in connection with several since-dropped product liability cases that a special master found to be filed in bad faith.

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MVP: Williams & Connolly's David M. Krinsky

By Yeji Jesse Lee

David M. Krinsky of Williams & Connolly LLP's life sciences practice represented Pfizer in patent infringement litigation filed by companies like Moderna and Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc., and won a victory for Merck before the Federal Circuit, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The FTC urged a D.C. court to block a deal involving a new heart valve treatment, and courts rejected the commission's monopolization case over Meta's past acquisitions and the agency's challenge of a medical device coatings deal. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from November.

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U Of Colo. To Pay $10M In Religious Bias Suit Over Vax Policy

By Grace Elletson

The University of Colorado's medical school will pay $10.3 million to a group of employees and students who claimed in federal court that their religious exemption requests to the university's COVID-19 vaccine mandate were unlawfully denied, according to the group's attorneys.

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9th Circ. Mulls Pharma Exec's Use Of Forced Arbitration Law

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California biopharmaceutical company told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that a district court erred in letting its former chief financial officer move her discrimination claims out of arbitration and into federal court, saying she arbitrated too long before invoking the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.

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UK Importer Must Pay Tax On PPE, Court Affirms

By Dylan Moroses

A logistics company must pay £1.4 million ($1.8 million) in customs duties and value-added tax for personal protective equipment imported from China to the U.K. during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a London court ruled, finding the business failed to comply with regulations to make those goods duty- and tax-free.

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Roundup

Defamation Litigation Roundup: FDA, Lively, Alexander Bros.

By Theresa Schliep

In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 highlights a pharmaceutical company's suit against a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official, as well as the latest decision siding against President Donald Trump in his fights with media companies.

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Squires Institutes First PTAB Challenges Since Taking Over

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted four inter partes reviews and two post-grant reviews, the first Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges to get his sign-off since he took over the institution review process.

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Navigating 2025's Post-Grant Proceeding Shakeups

Extensive changes to the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board's post-grant proceedings this year, including the new settled expectations factor and revitalization of Fintiv factors, require petitioners and patent owners alike to be mindful when selecting patents to assert and challenge, say attorneys at Quinn Emanuel.

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Bonus Spotlight

High Billers At McKool Smith To Pocket Extra Bonus Money

By Tracey Read

McKool Smith is the latest BigLaw firm to announce extra cash for attorneys who went above and beyond with billable hours in 2025, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.

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Wilson Sonsini To Switch Leaders For 1st Time Since 2012

By Andrea Keckley

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.

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Ex-Bernstein Litowitz Atty Starts Firm After Contentious Exit

By Adrian Cruz

A former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner known for handling high-profile stockholder cases has led the launch of a boutique focused on corporate disputes and securities litigation after the firm says he was fired for misconduct.

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LA Atty Accused Of Using AI 'Hallucinations' Sanctioned

By Rae Ann Varona

A California state appeals court has ordered an attorney accused of including artificial intelligence "hallucinations" in a client's opening brief to pay $7,500 to the court, saying in a published opinion that the attorney is subject to sanctions for inaccuracies, regardless of whether they were the result of AI.

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FTC Backs Nixing ABA Role As 'Gatekeeper' For Texas Bar

By Lynn LaRowe

The Federal Trade Commission has endorsed a proposal from the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, saying the organization's "accreditation monopoly" hurts competition and consumers.

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Virginia Bar Declines To Investigate Interim US Atty Halligan

By Ryan Boysen

The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.

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Trump Would Prefer Jack Smith Testify In Public

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.

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1st Circ. Doubts Ex-BigLaw Atty's Campaign Finance Appeal

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Wednesday expressed misgivings about a former BigLaw attorney's argument that a jury that convicted him of a campaign finance scheme during a failed run for Congress should have been required to unanimously find that each specific transaction was illegal.

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Archegos Founder Says Davis Polk Job Offer Taints Restitution

By Lauren Berg

Archegos founder Bill Hwang, who is serving an 18-year sentence for defrauding banks out of billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, asked to vacate his restitution order because the presiding judge's clerk accepted a job with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which represents victim-bank Morgan Stanley.

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Troutman Atty Is 3rd NC Federal Judge Confirmed This Week

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.

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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.

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