A Delaware vice chancellor Wednesday refused Pfizer Inc.'s emergency bid for a temporary restraining order to block Metsera Inc. from closing a now $10 billion competing bid by Novo Nordisk for the GLP-1 weight-loss drugmaker, saying Pfizer hasn't demonstrated Metsera's board acted in bad faith or that the company would suffer immediate irreparable harm.
A Delaware vice chancellor Wednesday refused Pfizer Inc.'s emergency bid for a temporary restraining order to block Metsera Inc. from closing a now $10 billion competing bid by Novo Nordisk for the GLP-1 weight-loss drugmaker, saying Pfizer hasn't demonstrated Metsera's board acted in bad faith or that the company would suffer immediate irreparable harm.
A First Circuit panel seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health.
An attorney for Masimo Corp. told a California federal jury during opening statements Wednesday that Apple Inc.'s smartwatch uses his client's groundbreaking patent in the device's feature that warns about an abnormal heart rate, and that Apple should pay up to $749 million for the infringement.
The Michigan Supreme Court weighed overturning two of its prior rulings on consumer protection law Wednesday as the state's attorney general sought the court's blessing for an insulin price-gouging investigation.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires rejected a Tesla Inc. patent challenge that his deputy director had referred to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for consideration, taking issue Wednesday with the company's "inconsistent claim construction" between the PTAB and federal court.
A Delaware federal judge has found Scale Biosciences Inc. did not flout patents held by Parse Biosciences Inc. with its cell analysis products, saying the processes described in the patent claims and the accused products do not give rise to a genuine fact dispute.
A former research lab director at the MIT-affiliated Whitehead Institute may pursue defamation and tortious interference claims against a former subordinate and romantic partner who accused him of sexual harassment, a Massachusetts state court judge said in a decision released on Wednesday.
The Federal Trade Commission wants a D.C. federal judge to bar a pair of outside doctors and consultants from vouching for Edwards Lifesciences' planned JenaValve acquisition, arguing in a filing made public Tuesday that claims of minimal communication between the physicians' counsel and the companies were "at best, misleading."
A pair of pharmacy trade groups is urging the Eighth Circuit to allow Arkansas to enforce a law barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies, arguing the law is a rational response to "abusive" PBM practices.
The Ninth Circuit has rejected a petition to send its September ruling reviving a whistleblower suit against Biotronik Inc. before the full court, rejecting Biotronik's petition for a rehearing en banc.
Celgene Corp. has agreed to a $239 million settlement with investors to resolve claims that the biopharmaceutical company hyped up its share price by failing to disclose timeline and growth problems with two of its drugs, ending the case after seven years of litigation and with a January 2026 trial date looming.
Three Chinese research scholars working at a University of Michigan laboratory have been accused of conspiring with a student pursuing her doctoral degree in Wuhan, China, to smuggle roundworms into the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
One hundred years after its establishment, the Hague System has grown into an important pillar of international design protection, offering a promising path toward even greater harmonization in design law as its geographic reach continues to expand, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.
The Seventh Circuit's decision to uphold a $183 million False Claims Act award against Eli Lilly engages substantively with recurring materiality and scienter questions and provides insights into appellate review of complex trial court judgments, say Ellen London at London & Naor, Li Yu at Bernstein Litowitz and Kimberly Friday at Osborn Maledon.
Two recent cases before the California Supreme Court show that the state is shifting toward greater enforcement of freely negotiated forum selection clauses between sophisticated parties, so litigators need to revisit old assumptions about the breadth of California's public policy exception, says Josh Patashnik at Perkins Coie.
Recent verdicts in different cases against Johnson & Johnson and Monsanto showcase a trend of multiple punitive damages being awarded to different plaintiffs for the same course of conduct by a single defendant, a practice that should be deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, says Jacob Mihm at Polales Horton.
Civil litigators can use artificial intelligence tools to strengthen case assessment and aid in early strategy development, as long as they address the risks and ethical considerations that accompany these uses, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.
In a published opinion, the Second Circuit on Thursday ordered a federal district judge to take a fresh look at President Donald Trump's attempt to move his New York hush money conviction to federal court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 presidential immunity ruling as grounds for reconsidering the case.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is urging a federal court to dismiss a suit from a disbarred attorney who claimed his suspension was retaliation for public criticism of the justices and the state bar, saying the high court has sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
President Donald Trump has nominated Dan Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to be assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.
The embattled wind-down trustee for defunct life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings in a Houston Chapter 11 case has resigned from the role amid the fallout from her secret romance with a then-bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas.
Aviation expert and former U.S. Department of Transportation senior trial attorney Amna Arshad has joined Amazon as an associate general counsel in charge of the legal teams for its worldwide aviation business, after spending the last year and a half in the aviation and transportation practices at Crowell & Moring LLP.
Two Republican lawmakers have asked Chief Justice John Roberts to rein in judges who've anonymously criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's flurry of "shadow docket" rulings, but a full-on investigation appears unlikely.
