Medtronic Hit With $382M Antitrust Verdict Over Bundling

By Craig Clough

A California federal jury on Thursday ordered Medtronic to pay nearly $382 million to business rival Applied Medical for antitrust violations, finding the medical device giant illegally used its monopoly power to crush competition in the market for a type of surgical instrument called an advanced bipolar device.

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Novo Threatens Hims & Hers With Suit Over GLP-1 'Knockoff'

By Mark Payne

Novo Nordisk said in a Thursday announcement it plans to take legal action against Hims & Hers Health Inc. after the telehealth company revealed a "knockoff" version of Novo's popular weight loss drug Wegovy earlier in the day. 

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Covington, Davis Polk Lead Eikon's Upsized $381M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company Eikon Therapeutics began trading publicly Thursday after raising $381 million in its upsized initial public offering.

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Judge Affirms Health Cos.' Sanctions For Witness Omission

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge rejected a "vague and unsupported" bid by a home healthcare company accused of violating federal kickback laws to reconsider sanctions she ordered for failing to disclose witnesses, saying the motion "wastes everyone's time" and scolding the defendants for "impugning the character and professionalism of an able magistrate judge."

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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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Trump Admin Finalizes Rule Facilitating Federal Worker Firings

By Tim Ryan

The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last year that could affect 50,000 employees at federal agencies.

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NYAG's Insider Trading Case A Power Grab, Judge Told

By Sarah Jarvis

The former CEO of healthcare contractor Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has removed to federal court New York Attorney General Letitia James' insider trading case against him, alleging James is trying to expand her office's power through claims that concern questions of federal law.

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Yale Health System Seeks $4.1M Coverage For Transplant

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Liberty Mutual unit breached a stop-loss insurance policy by denying Yale University's health system $4.1 million in coverage for a plan member's bone marrow transplant, the system told a Connecticut federal court.

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David Protein Gets Ingredient Supply Antitrust Claims Tossed

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court dismissed a lawsuit from several low-calorie food producers accusing protein bar-maker David Protein of refusing to sell them a fat replacement ingredient after it purchased the ingredient's only supplier.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Rethink Heart Monitor Patent Claim Ax

By Adam Lidgett

The full Federal Circuit won't rethink a panel's refusal to revive claims in a wireless heart rate monitor patent owned by Finnish sports tech company Polar Electro Oy that a lower court found were invalid.

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Patent Co., AI Research Firm Join Forces In $150M Deal

By Adam Lidgett

Patent monetization venture SIM IP has announced a merger valued at $150 million with artificial intelligence research firm Garden Intel, a deal the companies said would create a first-of-its-kind platform.

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Utah's AI Prescription Renewal Pilot Could Inform Policy

Utah recently became the first state to approve an artificial intelligence system for autonomously renewing certain prescription medicines, providing a test case for how regulators may be able to draw boundaries between administrative automation and medical judgment, say Jashaswi Ghosh at Holon Law Partners and Bryant Godfrey at Foley Hoag.

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Ramped Up Psychedelic Production Carries Opportunity, Risk

Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell discusses the key legal implications of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's recent dramatic increases in the production quotas for a range of psychedelic substances, offering guidance on compliance, risk management and strategic opportunities for practitioners navigating this rapidly evolving landscape.

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Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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