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• EU Lets Microsoft Unbundle Teams To Avoid Fine

  By Bryan Koenig

  European Union antitrust officials signed off Friday on Microsoft's plans to offer cheaper Office 365 suites without the Teams collaboration platform in order to avoid a potentially hefty fine for past policies shackling the two services together.

• Texas Bar Rolls Out AI Toolkit As 'Living Resource'

  By Lynn LaRowe

  The State Bar of Texas has rolled out an artificial intelligence toolkit that aims to help Lone Star State legal professionals get the most out of the technology while keeping them mindful of professional conduct rules and potential pitfalls.

• Uber Sued By Feds, Accused Of Disability-Based Bias

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The federal government Thursday hauled Uber Technologies Inc. into a federal court in San Francisco, accusing the transportation company of discriminating against riders with disabilities, including by allegedly refusing service to individuals traveling with service animals or using stowable wheelchairs.

• Retired Federal Judges Throw Shade On Shadow Docket

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Retired federal judges speaking at a Federal Bar Association panel in California Thursday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's increasing use of "shadow docket" emergency rulings that offer little or no explanation, with retired Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford saying the high court has "an obligation to give more of a ruling."

• Medicare Drug Pricing Plan Survives Novartis' 3rd Circ. Appeal

  By P.J. D'Annunzio

  The Third Circuit ruled Thursday that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' ability to negotiate "maximum fair prices" with drugmakers doesn't violate their constitutional rights, rejecting an argument by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. that the practice amounted to a raw deal for the pharmaceutical industry.

• Expert's AI Hallucinations Blamed On Attys' 'Willful Blindness'

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Utah anesthesiologists facing a False Claims Act fraudulent billing suit doubled down Wednesday on their bid to sanction and disqualify the whistleblower's counsel for not catching an expert witness report with numerous AI-generated fabrications, arguing the errors were so obvious that the failure to catch them constitutes "willful blindness."

• 1st Circ. OKs Freeze Of Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding

  By Dan McKay

  The First Circuit on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to halt Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, pausing a pair of lower court rulings that had blocked the funding cut.

• 7th Circ. Backs $183M FCA Award Over Eli Lilly Drug Rebates

  By Lauraann Wood

  The Seventh Circuit refused on Thursday to unwind a whistleblower's $183 million trial win against Eli Lilly in a false claims case targeting more than a decade of drug rebate miscalculations, saying a jury reasonably found that the company knowingly "hid the truth" about how much it charged for Medicaid-covered drugs.

• Fed. Circ. Lets Ruling On Canada's Cherry Patent Stand

  By Elliot Weld

  The Federal Circuit on Thursday declined a request by a group of cherry growers to reinstate a court order that a patent covering the Staccato cherry variety owned by the Canadian government was invalid, saying a district judge had not acted improperly by reversing the order.

• Zeiss Secures $785K In X-Ray Patent Trial Against Sigray

  By Adam Lidgett

  Sigray Inc. is on the hook for $785,000 in damages after a finding in California federal court this week that it infringed X-ray imaging patents owned by Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy Inc., but the jury also found that Sigray's infringement was not willful and refused to award any lost profits. 

• Senate Energy Panel Advances Republican FERC Nominees

  By Keith Goldberg

  The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump's picks to fill Republican slots on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a largely party-line vote.

• Mistrial Declared For Execs Accused Of Bribing Navy Admiral

  By Cara Salvatore

  A D.C. federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of two consulting company executives accused of bribing a top U.S. Navy admiral with a lucrative post-retirement job in exchange for government contracts.