Drugmakers and prominent allies are inundating the U.S. Supreme Court with calls to scrutinize Medicare's new power to slash payments by tens of billions of dollars, and the justices look poised to take up or turn down a fistful of legal challenges in one fell swoop.
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Analysis

Case-By-Case Guide As Justices Eye Landmark Pharma Law

By Jeff Overley

Drugmakers and prominent allies are inundating the U.S. Supreme Court with calls to scrutinize Medicare's new power to slash payments by tens of billions of dollars, and the justices look poised to take up or turn down a fistful of legal challenges in one fell swoop.

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Northwestern Can't Escape ERISA Fight Over Health Offerings

By Kellie Mejdrich

An Illinois federal court refused to toss a proposed class action against Northwestern University alleging excessive employee healthcare costs violated federal benefits law, concluding ex-workers had sufficiently backed up their allegations that an expensive plan option breached fiduciary duties.

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States Warn Of Executive Overreach In $100K H-1B Fee Fight

By Ganesh Setty

A group of 20 states challenging the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visa petitions slammed its position that the policy isn't reviewable, telling a Massachusetts federal court the government would essentially have a blank check to usurp congressional authority under its rationale.

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Feature

4 Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In April

By Kellie Mejdrich

Cigna retirees will ask the Second Circuit to revive a 24-year-old pension dispute, and the Seventh Circuit will hear a company's withdrawal liability fight with the Teamsters. Here, Law360 looks at those and two other argument sessions that benefits attorneys should have on their radar.

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EDITORIAL BOARDS

Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Legislative Update: Cannabis And Psychedelics Bill Roundup

By Sam Reisman

State lawmakers in Delaware and West Virginia advanced legislation to more tightly regulate kratom products, Missouri and Kentucky legislators considered bills to fund research into the therapeutic uses of the psychedelic ibogaine, and Idaho's Legislature came together to urge voters to reject a medical marijuana legalization proposal that could be on the ballot this November. Here are the major moves in cannabis and psychedelics legislation from the past week.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Ga. Urology Network To Pay $14M To Resolve FCA Case

By Gianna Ferrarin

An Atlanta urology network and its founder will pay $14 million to settle allegations that they billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary procedures, ranging from ultrasounds to endoscopic exams, according to an announcement by federal and Georgia state prosecutors.

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LITIGATION

NYC Fights Sanctions Over Discovery In IVF Sex Bias Dispute

By Grace Elletson

New York City urged a federal judge to reject a gay couple's sanctions bid in their suit claiming a municipal health plan blocked them from receiving in vitro fertilization coverage out of discrimination, calling their concerns with the city's sluggish discovery production in the case premature.

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Aetna Escapes COVID Testing Payment Suit In Calif.

By Mark Payne

A Nebraska testing laboratory failed to prove that Aetna underpaid more than $53 million for COVID-19 testing services, a California federal judge has ruled, dismissing the lab's federal racketeering and state law claims against the insurer but leaving the door open to an amended suit. 

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Wash. DOC Inks Deal Over Trans Treatment In Facilities

By Parker Quinlan

The Washington State Department of Corrections will start improving conditions for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people in its facilities and submit to yearly monitoring, according to a settlement agreement between the agency and a nonprofit in the state.

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Caterpillar Worker's Bankruptcy Dooms Genetic Privacy Claim

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a Caterpillar Inc. employee's proposed class genetic privacy suit over allegedly illegal medical history probes, saying the worker's midcase Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing means the claims now belong to his bankruptcy estate and not to him personally.

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Anthem, Wells Fargo Say Patients Received All Benefits Owed

By Rachel Konieczny

Insurers urged a Colorado federal judge to allow them to escape claims from a mental health and substance use treatment facilities operator's lawsuit, alleging the facility lacks standing to bring claims under federal benefits and mental health parity laws.

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Colo. Doctor Says Centura Lacks Proof For Mitigation Defense

By Zach Dupont

A doctor who claims Centura Health recruited him for an in-house position and took back a job offer after he disclosed that he was suffering symptoms of burnout asked a judge in Colorado federal court to toss one of the healthcare company's affirmative defenses.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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PEOPLE

Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Healthcare GC In Dallas

By Lynn LaRowe

Greenberg Traurig LLP has boosted its healthcare and U.S. Food and Drug Administration practice with a shareholder in Dallas who brings substantial in-house experience, most recently serving as general counsel to ophthalmology administrative services provider Sight Growth Partners.

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Bradley Arant Launches Medical Office Real Estate Team

By Nate Beck

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has launched a team focused on medical office buildings real estate led by partners in Nashville, Tennessee, and Dallas.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

The Road Ahead For Drug Development In The US

Against the backdrop of drug manufacturers potentially looking to move development efforts overseas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's latest guidance on new approach methodologies signals the FDA is likely to be receptive to industry innovation that makes U.S.-based drug development faster or less expensive, creating opportunities and compliance risks for tech companies, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Similar-Looking Designs May Not Always Prove Infringement

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Range of Motion Products v. Armaid is a reminder that even a strikingly similar design might not be found to infringe upon a patented design once design features driven by functionality are filtered out from consideration, say attorneys at BCLP.

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Series

Mich. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q1

Michigan's financial services sector saw several significant developments in 2026's first quarter, including the state Department of Insurance and Financial Services' issuance of a bulletin on the use of artificial intelligence and the Michigan House's introduction of a bill based on the Model Money Transmission Modernization Act, say attorneys at Dykema.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Fired For 'Sloppy' Work, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A former trademark associate told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that DLA Piper "blindsided" her with termination after she announced she was pregnant, but the BigLaw firm countered that she was fired for "repeated mistakes" and other on-the-job shortcomings.

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Files Of 10 Jones Day Clients Breached In Cyberattack

By Aebra Coe

Jones Day is the latest law firm to be hit by a cyberattack, the firm confirmed Monday, revealing that an unauthorized party accessed files of 10 clients.

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Troutman, Ex-Associate Reach Deal In Discrimination Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP associate asked a D.C. federal court Monday to pause a suit as the two sides have reported they had reached a settlement agreement over her discrimination claims against the firm, sidestepping a trial set to begin next month.

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Ex-EEOC Leaders Back BigLaw Firms In Trump EO Appeal

By Patrick Hoff

A group of former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials are backing four BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, arguing the president's directives contradict how Congress meant for the EEOC to operate.

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Jackson Walker, Sorrento CEO Hit With RICO Suit Over Ch. 11

By Emlyn Cameron

More than a dozen Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders sued law firm Jackson Walker LLP and the defunct biopharmaceutical company's ex-CEO for over $100 million, accusing them of conspiring to launch an unnecessary bankruptcy in an irrelevant jurisdiction.

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Analysis

Can State Courts Tame The 'Wild West' Of Judicial Security?

By Cara Bayles

As threats against local judges continue to ramp up, protection and incident tracking varies not only from state to state but county to county, making it difficult to draw the national judicial security landscape. Now, lawmakers are looking to use federal resources to even out disparities.

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LSC Seeks $2.14B As White House Pushes To Slash Funding

By Marco Poggio

The Legal Services Corp. is asking Congress for $2.14 billion in fiscal year 2027 to fund civil legal services for low-income Americans who cannot afford an attorney.

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Atty Convicted Of Staging Truck Crashes Seeks New Trial

By Parker Quinlan

A disbarred New Orleans attorney has asked a federal judge in Louisiana for a new insurance fraud trial, arguing a suite of issues from her federal trial last month caused her to receive what she described in a filing as a "miscarriage of justice."

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Trump Orders Could Chill US Arbitration, Group Warns

By Caroline Simson

The College of Commercial Arbitrators has urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders yanking the security clearances of four BigLaw firms, arguing a contrary ruling would "imperil" arbitration in the U.S.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Loses Bid To Shake ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Lauren Berg

A federal judge Monday refused to overturn a former Wisconsin state judge's conviction for helping shield a defendant in her courtroom from arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, rejecting her contention that, because ICE had no authority to make the arrest in the courthouse, there was no obstruction.

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Ill. Justices Want MAGA Op-Ed Author Judge's Claims Axed

By Emily Sawicki

Illinois Supreme Court justices have asked a Chicago federal judge to throw out constitutional claims filed by a retired Illinois state trial court judge alleging he was wrongfully terminated over protected speech in a political opinion column, with the justices arguing the federal court should not interfere with a state court matter.

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Justices Clear Path For DOJ To Dismiss Bannon's Conviction

By Cara Salvatore

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's order upholding Steve Bannon's conviction over his nonresponse to a congressional subpoena investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, clearing the way for the Justice Department to dismiss his indictment.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-profile corporate disputes, insider trading allegations, contract fights and significant rulings shaping fiduciary duty and deal litigation.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AARP Inc.

AE Industrial Partners LP

AbbVie Inc.

Aetna Inc.

Affordable Care LLC

Altria Group Inc.

American Bar Association

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

Astellas Pharma Inc.

AstraZeneca PLC

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Baretz & Brunelle LLC

Bauer Inc.

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

Boyer Co.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Burford Capital LLC

Burke Inc.

CACI International Inc.

Caterpillar Inc.

Catholic Health Initiatives

Centura Health Inc.

CommonSpirit Health

Conference of State Bank Supervisors

Cottrell Inc.

Covidien PLC

DaVita Inc.

Disability Rights Washington

Elevance Health Inc.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Emerson Electric Co.

FM Global

FanDuel Inc.

GLS Capital LLC

Great American Insurance Co.

Ingerman

Integer Holdings Corp.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Johnson & Johnson

KPMG International

LafargeHolcim Ltd.

Latham Pool Products Inc.

Lexitas Legal

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Merck & Co. Inc.

NERA Economic Consulting Inc.

National Federation of Independent Business

National Foreign Trade Council

News Corp.

Novartis AG

Novo Nordisk A S

Oshkosh Corp.

PG&E Corp.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America

Phillips 66

Premera Blue Cross

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Riot Games Inc.

Sorrento Therapeutics Inc.

Sutter Health

Tesla Inc.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Boeing Co.

The Cigna Group

The Kraft Heinz Co.

Tilray Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

United Surgical Partners International Inc.

Volunteers of Legal Service

Washington Legal Foundation

Wells Fargo & Co.

eBay Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Abell Eskew

Abrams Tax Law

Adams Duerk

Adler & Stachenfeld

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

Alto Litigation

Anderson Kill

Angeli & Calfo

Archer & Greiner

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Axinn Veltrop

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Barnes & Thornburg

Bartko Pavia

Bartlit Beck

Barton LLP

Bass Berry

Berger Montague

Berger Singerman

Bernstein Litowitz

Blank Rome

Block & Leviton

Bock Hatch

Boies Schiller

Botkin Chiarello

Bowman & Brooke

Boyden Gray

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Brann & Isaacson

Brockstedt Mandalas

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Burke Law Offices LLC

Bush Seyferth

Chaiken Ghali

Clement & Murphy

Cohen & Buckmann

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Seglias

Conn Maciel

Constantine Cannon

Cooley LLP

Coplan & Crane

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Croke Fairchild

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Don Bivens PLLC

Duane Morris

Dykema

Eimer Stahl

Elam & Burke

Engstrom Lee

Eversheds Sutherland

Faegre Drinker

Fairmark Partners LLP

Fears Law

Fenwick & West

Filippatos PLLC

Fluet & Associates PLLC

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Fox Rothschild

Frantz Ward

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Friedman Kaplan

Genova Burns

Gibson Dunn

Gimbel Reilly

Girard Sharp

Glenn Agre

Goldberg Segalla

Goldman Ismail

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Gouchev Law

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

Groom Law Group

HWG LLP

Hall Render

Hangley Aronchick

Haviland Hughes

Haynes Boone

Hecker Fink

Hicks Thomas

Hilgers Graben

Hobbs Straus

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

Holland & Knight

Hollingsworth LLP

Honigman LLP

Hughes Hubbard

Hunton Andrews

Hurwitz Sagarin

Husch Blackwell

Hyman Phelps

Jackson Lewis PC

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Katten Muchin

Keker Van

Kelley Drye

Kennedys Law LLP

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kleinbard LLC

Kostelanetz LLP

Kreindler & Kreindler

Kutak Rock

Labaton Keller

Landye Bennett

Langsam Stevens

Lanier Law Firm

Latham & Watkins

Lauro & Singer

Law Office of Annie M. Ellis

Law Offices of Moffa Sutton

Lee Segui

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Linklaters LLP

Liskow & Lewis

Littler Mendelson

Loeb & Loeb

Lowey Dannenberg

Lynch Carpenter

Manatt Phelps

Maslon LLP

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Michael Best & Friedrich

Milbank LLP

Miller Waxler

Mintz Levin

MoloLamken

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Motta Law

Munck Wilson

Munger Tolles

Napoli Shkolnik

Nelson Mullins

Nichols Kaster

Nicolaides Fink

Niro McAndrews

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

Nukk Freeman

O'Melveny & Myers

O'Toole Scrivo

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Pachulski Stang

Pallas Partners

Parker Poe

Pashman Stein

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Pearl Schneider Young

Perkins Coie

Peter Romer-Friedman Law

Phillips Lytle

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Polsinelli PC

Pomerantz LLP

Potter Anderson

Prinz Law Firm

Rathod Mohamedbhai

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Rimon PC

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Bradshaw

Ropes & Gray

Rose Immigration Law Firm

Saul Ewing

Sbaiti & Company

Schneider Wallace

Seeger Weiss

Segal Roitman

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Silverman Thompson

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephan Zouras

Steptoe LLP

Sterlington PLLC

Sterne Kessler

Stevens & Lee

Stradley Ronon

Strang Bradley

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Hine

Tripp Scott

Troutman

Tusan Law

Tycko & Zavareei

UB Greensfelder

Varnum LLP

Venable LLP

Warner Norcross

Weber Gallagher

Weitz Firm

White & Case

Wigdor LLP

Wiggin LLP

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Winston & Strawn

Wolf Popper

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arkansas Insurance Department

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

California Attorney General's Office

California Civil Rights Department

Central Intelligence Agency

City and County of San Francisco, California

City of New York

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Defense Health Agency

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Attorney General's Office

Illinois Supreme Court

Legal Services Corp.

Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services

Michigan Supreme Court

Morongo Band of Mission Indians

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Washington Attorney General's Office

Washington State Department of Corrections