Expert Analysis

NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

The year's second quarter brought several notable banking law developments to New York, including a proposal to al... (more story)

A New Defense For Medicaid Fraud Cases In Texas

The Texas Supreme Court decision in LabCorp v. Texas last month, finding that the state's False Claims Act require... (more story)

Pregnancy Bias Suits Highlight EEOC's Expanding Reach

Recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suits show that enactment of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act... (more story)

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Jazz Patent Suit Over Xyrem Survives Dismissal In NJ

A New Jersey federal judge has refused to let generic-drug company Tris Pharma Inc. escape a suit claiming its attempt to sell a competing version of Jazz Pharmaceuticals' narcolepsy drug Xyrem infringes a series of patents.

AstraZeneca Employee Traded On Icosavax Deal, SEC Says

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday accused a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP employee of using nonpublic information to trade ahead of the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of vacc... (more story)

Handa, Intas Face Patent Suits Over Exelixis Cancer Drug

Handa Pharmaceuticals and Intas Pharmaceuticals are wrongly trying to bring to market drugs that would compete with Exelixis Inc.'s blockbuster cancer pill Cabometyx before patents on the medication expire, ac... (more story)

Biggest Rulings For Patent Attys In 2026: A Midyear Report

The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the pleading standard for induced infringement of skinny labels, and the Federal Circuit opened the door to increased damages for patent owners. Here's what you need to know ab... (more story)

Align's Invisalign Patents Are Infringed But Invalid, Jury Finds

A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's an... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Dental Patent Claims In Align Feud

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's ... (more story)

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PBMs Fight Bid To Add Pharmacy Group To Price-Fixing Suit

Two pharmacy benefit managers have told a Michigan federal judge that a trade association for small pharmacies should not be allowed to intervene in a price-fixing lawsuit brought by the state's attorney general.

Veradigm Can't Shake Suit Over Patient Portal Data Tracking

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health info... (more story)

23andMe's $47M Data Breach Deal Gets Bankruptcy Court OK

A Missouri bankruptcy judge entered an order Tuesday authorizing a $46.7 million settlement between the plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe and data breac... (more story)

Quantum Readiness May Paradoxically Raise Contractor Risk

The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cr... (more story)

Medtronic Denied Bid To Nix $382M Antitrust Loss

A California federal court has denied Medtronic Inc.'s attempt to ditch a roughly $382 million trial loss in an antitrust case accusing the company of maintaining its monopoly over a surgical device through co... (more story)

After Tense Terms, Hints Of High Court Harmony With Circuits

Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming bett... (more story)

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Wash. Justices Nix Live-In Caregiver Wage Exemption

Adult family homes in Washington cannot use a state minimum wage exemption to deny wage-and-hour protections to caregivers who live where they work, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, holding the car... (more story)

Full 7th Circ. To Hear Fla. Gender Care Suit, Drawing Dissent

The full Seventh Circuit will hear Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's initial appeal of a lower court's injunction blocking his state court lawsuit targeting medical groups' policies on youth gender-aff... (more story)

Hologic Faces Class Action Over Ransomware Attack

Hologic Inc., a medical technology company focused on women's health, has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court alleging sensitive personal data it held was exposed in a recent cyberattack.

Baxter Beats Stable Value Fund 401(k) Plan Suit, For Good

Baxter International permanently defeated a proposed class action claiming the relatively low returns of the medical products company's employee retirement plan were evidence of mismanagement, after an Illinoi... (more story)

UNC Must Face Retaliation Suit Over Abbreviated Fellowship

The University of North Carolina can't escape an ophthalmologist's lawsuit alleging it shortened his fellowship for complaining that a colleague mistreated him because he's Egyptian and in his 40s, with a fede... (more story)

Vax Skeptics Push To Advance Publisher Boycott Claims

A vaccine skepticism advocacy group once tied to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a D.C. federal court it's considering a mandamus petition to move forward its lawsuit claiming... (more story)