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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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