Sandoz Inc. and its marketing firm RareGen LLC urged a Third Circuit panel on Wednesday to reinstate the full $137.2 million awarded in breach of contract damages against United Therapeutics Corp., claiming a lower court's decision to halve the damages provided a windfall to their adversary.
Sandoz Inc. and its marketing firm RareGen LLC urged a Third Circuit panel on Wednesday to reinstate the full $137.2 million awarded in breach of contract damages against United Therapeutics Corp., claiming a lower court's decision to halve the damages provided a windfall to their adversary.
Bankrupt OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma began its Chapter 11 confirmation trial Wednesday with an overview of its latest plan and the myriad settlements that underpin the proposal, including a $6.5 billion commitment from the company's owners.
What was set to be the first bellwether case in the sprawling multidistrict litigation over contaminated blood pressure medication Valsartan was decided Monday when a New Jersey federal judge excluded as "pure speculation" the plaintiff's medical expert who testified that the drug caused a patient's liver cancer.
First Circuit judges skeptically questioned a Planned Parenthood attorney Wednesday as they wrestled with whether Congress illegally singled out the organization in budget legislation that blocks its federal Medicaid funding for a year.
The number of patent applications filed worldwide in 2024 surged, continuing years of growth due in significant part to filings out of China, according to a World Intellectual Property Organization report released Wednesday.
A Colorado federal judge has rejected a biotech startup and two of its founders' bid to reconsider a February order requiring them to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission more than $14.3 million for overstating their own investments in the company.
A Chinese scholar with research ties to the University of Michigan will likely leave the United States this week after she was sentenced on Wednesday to time served following five months in custody for smuggling into the country a fungus that causes crop disease and lying about it to federal agents.
A Washington federal judge rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt a temporary injunction, saying the president took too long to request a pause in the order, which blocks federal officials from withholding federal healthcare funds to hospitals in four states that provide gender-affirming care.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has decided not to combine two Bergen County Superior Court mass tort cases over weight loss drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, keeping them separate based on the type of injury alleged.
A proposed class alleging that Procter & Gamble tampons contain unsafe amounts of lead is urging a California federal court to reject the company's bid to transfer the case to Ohio federal court.
The U.S. government said Camp Lejeune toxic water litigants leaned on "empty accusations of bias" in an effort to exclude an expert witness, telling a North Carolina federal court that the expert has a decades-long track record of using reliable scientific methods.
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $620,000 arbitration award in favor of an Indian teleradiology company against a radiology provider, rejecting the latter's bid to vacate the decision by claiming an arbitrator misinterpreted their long-standing services agreement.
Parker-Hannifin Corp. has said it will acquire Filtration Group Corp. in a transaction valued at about $9.25 billion, expanding the industrial manufacturer's reach into recurring-revenue filtration systems used across industrial, life sciences and HVAC markets.
Recent federal appellate court decisions have clarified that determining sufficient particularity under the Defend Trade Secrets Act is a question of fact and will likely become a standard jury question, highlighting the need for appropriate jury instructions that explicitly address the issue, says Amy Candido at Simpson Thacher.
State supreme court cases from recent years have addressed whether positions taken by attorneys in an underlying lawsuit can be used against them in a subsequent legal malpractice action, providing a foundation to defeat ex-clients’ estoppel claims, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.
Cultivating a network isn't part of the law school curriculum, but learning the soft skills needed to do so may be the key to establishing a solid professional reputation, nurturing client relationships and building business, says Sharon Crane at Practising Law Institute.
A Pennsylvania federal judge has been asked to slow down aggressive marketing campaigns from claims recovery firms that are accused of using false and misleading advertising to attract plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation action against pharmaceutical companies.
Fired immigration judges spoke on Thursday about their "crushing" backlog of cases, a buildup exacerbated by the Trump administration's elimination of their colleagues' positions.
Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz of the District of Minnesota will take semi-retired status next summer, according to an update on Thursday from the federal judiciary.
A federal judge in Virginia said Thursday said that Attorney General Pam Bondi couldn't have reviewed the full transcript of the grand jury proceedings that netted an indictment of James Comey before ratifying the charges against the former FBI director because the U.S. Department of Justice didn't have them at the time.
A group of former federal judges on Thursday condemned what they called "inflammatory remarks" last week by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche detailing the U.S. Department of Justice's "war" with "rogue activist" judges.
Delaware's former interim U.S. attorney has been appointed acting U.S. attorney after the district court declined to keep her as the top federal prosecutor in the First State when her term expired.
A Texas federal judge has paused a number of settlements between Jackson Walker LLP and former clients, criticizing the firm for trying to undermine the U.S. Trustee's investigation into alleged malpractice stemming from a secret romance between a former partner and a bankruptcy judge.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied an emergency application to stay a Fifth Circuit decision that would allow an asylum-seeker's 7-year-old daughter to be deported to Venezuela.
The federal government subpoenaed the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government on Wednesday to testify in its case against New York Attorney General Letitia A. James.
