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February 24, 2025
Shooting Victim Blames Nursing Home For Lack Of Security
A Pennsylvania man who was robbed and shot while visiting his brother at a Pittsburgh nursing home last November has filed a lawsuit against the facility in state court, claiming the company falsely represented that it was safe and secure.
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February 24, 2025
Elizabeth Holmes Loses 9th Circ. Appeal Over Theranos Fraud
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday affirmed the criminal fraud convictions of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani along with their respective 11-year and nearly 13-year prison sentences, rejecting arguments that the lower court made multiple evidentiary errors that unfairly swayed jurors.
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February 24, 2025
Thomas Pans High Court For Skipping Abortion Buffer Zones
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a constitutional challenge to an Illinois city's now-repealed ordinance that created 100-foot speech buffer zones around healthcare facilities providing abortions, shooting down a case aimed at overturning a 20-year-old ruling that such zones don't violate the First Amendment.
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February 24, 2025
Justices Won't Review NJ Town Abortion Buffer Zone Law
A split U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not review the Third Circuit's decision to let Englewood, New Jersey, continue enforcing eight-foot "buffer zones" around abortion facilities that protesters are not permitted to enter, in a case brought by an activist who said the zones infringed her free speech.
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February 24, 2025
Supreme Court Won't Revisit Contentious Feres Doctrine
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Air National Guard reservist's suit seeking damages for a military hospital surgery that left him paralyzed, declining to revisit a doctrine barring injury claims considered "incident to" military service.
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February 21, 2025
Trump Blocked From Implementing Anti-DEI Orders, For Now
A Maryland federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from implementing the bulk of his executive orders aiming to slash diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the public and private sectors, ruling that the orders are likely unconstitutionally vague and illegally restrict free speech.
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February 21, 2025
Drugmakers Slam 'Untimely' Claims In Employers' Antitrust Suit
Pharmaceutical companies targeted by sweeping antitrust lawsuits from major employers, including Target, Lowe's and American Airlines, have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to trim conspiracy claims from a lawsuit accusing them of orchestrating illegal agreements for price-fixing and customer allocation, arguing the allegation was unsupported and untimely.
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February 21, 2025
WebMD Users Secure Class Certification In Video Privacy Suit
WebMD faces a certified class action accusing the health information site of violating federal law by sharing roughly half a million of its users' video-viewing history with Facebook, after a Georgia federal judge rejected some of the website's arguments against certification as "absurd."
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February 21, 2025
Eli Lilly Has Exclusivity Over Weight Loss Drug, FDA Says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked a Texas federal court to reject a request for an injunction that would allow compounding pharmacies to produce a lucrative weight loss drug, saying the agency based its decision on sound facts and it was within its authority.
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February 21, 2025
Watchdog Says DOL Struggles To Enforce Mental Health Law
Workers with mental health conditions and substance use disorders are at higher risk of not receiving treatment or having to pay out of pocket for care that should be covered because of the U.S. Department of Labor's limited ability to enforce federal mental health parity laws, an agency watchdog said Friday.
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February 21, 2025
Judge Questions Trump Administration Fund Freeze Authority
A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday left in place a temporary restraining order blocking a funding freeze by President Donald Trump's administration until the judge can rule on a request by a coalition of states for a preliminary injunction.
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February 21, 2025
Luigi Mangione Says His Rights Are Being Violated In NY Case
An attorney for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, told a New York state court judge on Friday that his constitutional rights are being violated in the state case as federal prosecutors are "hanging the death penalty over" his head on related charges.
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February 21, 2025
NFL Alums Accused Of Misusing COVID Outreach Funding
The National Football League's largest alumni organization has been accused by a biotechnology company of trying to misuse Georgia taxpayer dollars intended for a COVID-19 vaccine education program before unlawfully breaking their contract last year.
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February 21, 2025
Pharma Co. Investors Get Final OK For $3M Settlement
Investors in Colorado pharmaceutical company Ampio have gotten final approval for their $3 million deal resolving claims that its leadership mishandled a clinical trial for the company's sole drug candidate and distributed the drug outside the trial for unapproved use, leading to an internal investigation in which two executives were fired and a disclosure that there was "no clinical pathway forward" for the treatment.
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February 21, 2025
Mich. Car Insurance Caps Aren't Retroactive, Judge Rules
Healthcare cost controls enacted as part of a 2019 overhaul of Michigan's auto insurance laws cannot be applied to crash victims injured before the passage of the reforms, a state judge determined on Friday, ruling against the state's insurance regulator.
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February 21, 2025
Wash. Health System Says Nurse Must Arbitrate Wage Claims
A Washington-based healthcare system facing a proposed class and collective wage action in Seattle federal court contends the plaintiff nurse agreed to arbitrate any claims with the third-party staffing agencies he contracted with to work at its facilities.
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February 21, 2025
Alcon Hit With Suit Over Allegedly Contaminated Eye Drops
Alcon Laboratories Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court alleging that its eye drops are contaminated by fungus, in a case brought by a woman who says she was injured by using the drops for months.
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February 21, 2025
UChicago Medical Center Can't Duck Wage Suit
An Illinois federal judge largely allowed a proposed class action brought by UChicago Medical Center workers seeking to recover unpaid wages for the time spent undergoing mandatory, pre-shift COVID-19 screenings to move forward, rejecting the center's argument that the screenings weren't "integral and indispensable" to employees' job duties.
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February 21, 2025
Weight Loss Drug Patient Drops Appeal In Cancer Risk Suit
Days after arguing her case before a skeptical Third Circuit panel, a woman who alleges she suffered financial harm by buying a weight loss drug that purportedly causes cancer — which she said she has not been diagnosed with — has voluntarily dismissed the case.
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February 21, 2025
WilmerHale Corporate Ace Joins DLA Piper In California
DLA Piper has added a former WilmerHale attorney to strengthen its corporate practice, including bolstering its service to clients in the life sciences and healthcare industries.
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February 21, 2025
IRS Offers Guidance On Health Coverage Statements
The Internal Revenue Service released guidance Friday related to alternative methods for employers to provide health insurance coverage statements to employees as part of a larger move to reduce paperwork.
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February 21, 2025
NIH Research Cuts Stay On Hold As Judge Mulls Objections
A Boston federal judge on Friday extended her hold on a Trump administration proposal to slash reimbursements from the National Institutes of Health for research grant costs, a move colleges, hospitals and other institutions have said would wreak havoc on scientific research.
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February 20, 2025
DOJ Says Job Protections For ALJs Are Unconstitutional
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it no longer backs long-standing job protections for administrative law judges, saying it has determined that the "multiple layers of removal restrictions" shielding ALJs are unconstitutional because they violate the separation of powers doctrine.
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February 20, 2025
Trump Admin Must Obey Order To Restore Aid, Judge Says
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore foreign assistance funding in accordance with his temporary restraining order, but stopped short of sanctioning the government officials.
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February 20, 2025
Fla. Jury Awards $1.2M In Botched Hysterectomy Suit
A Florida state court jury has awarded more than $1.2 million in damages to a man whose 78-year-old wife died following a robotic-assisted hysterectomy surgery, finding that a medical doctor and nurse were negligent in the woman's death from sepsis, a blood infection.
Expert Analysis
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Key Takeaways From FDA's Latest Social Media Warnings
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's latest untitled letter concerning a drug company's social media promotion provides lessons for how companies should navigate risk presentation, FDA labeling requirements and superiority claims, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Inside The Appeals Board's 2024 Report To Congress
An in-depth examination of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals’ annual report reveals a continuing decline in new cases, motions and hearings, a trend that may correspond with the increased use of alternative dispute resolution, and expedited or accelerated proceedings, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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Rank-And-File DOJ Attorneys Will Keep Calm And Carry On
Career prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice often pride themselves on their ability to remain apolitical in order to ensure consistency and keep the department’s mission afloat, and the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to upend this tradition, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.
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Expect More State Scrutiny Of PE In Healthcare M&A
While a California bill that called for increased antitrust scrutiny of many healthcare private equity transactions was recently vetoed by the governor, state legislatures are likely to continue introducing similar laws, particularly if the Trump administration eases federal enforcement, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Unpacking Arguments From High Court's Rural Hospital Case
During oral arguments in Advocate v. Becerra, the U.S. Supreme Court justices focused questions on the meaning of being "entitled to" supplementary security income assistance, and there's reason for optimism that the likely split decision will break in favor of hospitals, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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How Boards And Officers Should Prep For New Trump Admin
In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs and mass deportation campaign, company officers and board members should pursue proactive, comprehensive contingency planning to not only advance the best interests of the companies they serve, but to also properly exercise their fiduciary duty of care, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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Calif. Ruling May Shield Public Employers From Labor Claims
In Stone v. Alameda Health System, the California Supreme Court recently exempted a county hospital from state-mandated rest breaks and the Private Attorneys General Act, granting government employers a robust new bulwark against other labor statutes by undermining an established doctrine for determining if a law applies to public entities, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Health Policy Predictions For Trump's Second Administration
As President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for health policy and enforcement heads work their way through the confirmation process, healthcare organizations can look at nominee backgrounds, campaign statements and actions from Trump's previous presidency to predict incoming priorities, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Series
Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.
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What Trump's Next Term May Mean For Biz Immigration
Leonard D'Arrigo at Harris Beach discusses the employment-based immigration policies businesses can potentially expect during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, based on policies enacted during his first administration, statements made during his campaign and proposals in Project 2025.
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Compliance Considerations Of DOJ Data Security Rule
Under the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed rule aiming to prevent certain countries' access to bulk U.S. sensitive personal data, companies must ensure their vendor, employment and investment agreements meet strict new data security requirements — or determine whether such contracts are worth the cost of compliance, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.
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Balancing Health Tech Advances And Clinical Responsibility
To maintain their clinical responsibilities and mitigate potential legal risk, health professionals should incorporate the benefits of new medical technology powered by artificial intelligence while addressing its risks and limitations, says Kathleen Fisher Enyeart at Lathrop GPM.
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Series
Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer
Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.
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Opinion
Weak Reasoning Underlies Fla. Judge's Bold Qui Tam Ruling
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle's groundbreaking decision in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC, holding that qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are unconstitutional, relies on weak logic to reach a conclusion that differs from every other court that has ruled on the issue, says Ethan Greenberg at Anderson Kill.