Expert Analysis

Risk Reduction Lessons For PE Firms From PowerSchool Suit

A California federal court's recent orders allowing claims against Bain Capital to proceed based on a data breach ... (more story)

HHS Enforcement Restructuring Signals Compliance Risks

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' recent restructuring of its Office for Civil Rights suggests tha... (more story)

AG Watch: Oregon's Strategic Civil Enforcement Approach

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield’s recent antitrust litigation activity and proposed staffing increase are the... (more story)

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Cassava Investors Ink $31M Drug Suit Deal Alongside Appeal

Cassava Sciences investors have asked a Texas federal judge to preliminarily approve a $31 million settlement that ends their claims the pharmaceutical company inflated its stock prices with misleading informa... (more story)

FTC Requires Fix For Aurobindo's $250M Lannett Deal

The Federal Trade Commission is allowing Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. to move ahead with its planned $250 million acquisition of Lannett Co. Inc., after the pharmaceutical company agreed to unload four generic drug p... (more story)

Sorrento RICO Case Naming Jackson Walker Gets Axed

A Texas bankruptcy judge blocked a lawsuit in California federal court alleging Jackson Walker LLP and executives at Sorrento Therapeutics and M3 Partners conspired to forum shop in Texas so the drug developer... (more story)

Goodwin, Latham Lead Biotech Kardigan's $400M IPO

Venture-backed Kardigan Inc., a biotechnology firm developing therapies for cardiovascular diseases, hit the public markets on Thursday after raising $400 million in its initial public offering.

Eli Lilly Settles Mounjaro TM Suit Against Seattle Area Clinics

Eli Lilly has agreed to drop a lawsuit accusing two Washington clinics of ripping off its trademarks for the weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound, according to a voluntary dismissal motion filed in federal ... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Davis Polk, S&C

In this week's Taxation With Representation, SpaceX prices a $75 billion initial public offering at its designated price range, Apollo Global Management leads a capital commitment for a Broadcom initiative to ... (more story)

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Wellstar Reaches Deal In Patient Data-Sharing Suit

Georgia's largest healthcare system has reached a settlement with a group of anonymous patients who alleged that the confidential health information of "millions" was shared with Meta Platform Inc. without con... (more story)

Eli Lilly Weight Drug TM Deal Too Secretive, Ind. Judge Says

An Indiana federal judge on Thursday refused to sign off on a confidential settlement that would bar a telehealth company from selling knock-offs of Eli Lilly's weight-loss medications, saying the companies di... (more story)

Express Scripts Can't Ditch Meta Wiretap Suit Yet

A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allo... (more story)

Novo Nordisk Sued Over Data Hack Tied To Extortionist Group

Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed negligence class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to have adequate data security measures in place to protect sensitive personal ... (more story)

Full Fed. Circ. Skips DePuy Bid To Redo Spine Patent Dispute

The full Federal Circuit won't revisit a panel decision that gave new life to an inventor's suit accusing DePuy Synthes Cos. of infringing his spinal realignment method patents, letting stand the decision that... (more story)

ITC, Masimo Tell Full Fed. Circ. To Skip Apple Watch Review

Masimo Corp. and the U.S. International Trade Commission have pushed back on Apple's request for full Federal Circuit rehearing of a panel decision finding an older version of the Apple Watch infringes Masimo'... (more story)

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Sodexo Can't Wipe Out Worker's Nicotine Fee Suit

A California federal judge refused to toss a Sodexo worker's proposed class action alleging the global food services company wrongly charged nicotine-using employees $1,200 more a year for health insurance, op... (more story)

RFK Jr. Urges 1st Circ. To Reinstate His Vaccine Advisers

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the First Circuit a Boston federal judge's decision to freeze his vaccine committee appointments lacks a legal foundation and has left the government paralyzed ... (more story)

Gibson Dunn Hires Ropes & Gray Health Regulatory Atty In DC

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired a former Ropes & Gray LLP partner who works on a myriad of health regulatory and drug pricing matters, advising pharmaceutical manufacturers, investors and other entities o... (more story)

5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the co... (more story)

Health System Strikes Deal To End Tobacco Fee Suit

Nonprofit health system Advocate Aurora Health reached a deal to close a proposed class action claiming it hit workers with an unlawful fee through their health plan if they used tobacco, according to a filing... (more story)

High Court Bars Federal Review Of State Court Appeals

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a legal doctrine designed to curtail duplicative litigation prevents parties who lose in state court from appealing in federal district court even if the state case is still pending.