Expert Analysis

Denying Emergency Abortion Care Is A Liability Oversight

Health systems in states with abortion bans should consider that refusing to provide emergency abortion care carri... (more story)

Carbon Health Settlement Highlights Why Evidence Is Key

The California Attorney General's Office's first-of-its-kind settlement with Carbon Health, imposing penalties for... (more story)

Remote Work Rulings Show ADA Fights Hinge On Process

Two opposite outcomes in recent Fifth Circuit and D.C. federal court cases underscore that the legality of denying... (more story)

Deals & Corporate Governance More

Taxation With Representation: Freshfields, Slaughter And May

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Uber Technologies Inc. buys food delivery company Delivery Hero SE, engineering group ABB Ltd. acquires flow technology company Rotork PLC, and Eli Lilly and Co. bu... (more story)

Goodwin Adds Life Sciences Veteran For San Diego Relaunch

Goodwin Procter LLP announced on Tuesday that it had hired a veteran life sciences attorney to co-chair its new San Diego office, which is slated to open later this summer.

AI Drug Discovery Biz Valued At $3.8B After Series C Round

Artificial intelligence-based drug discovery company Chai Discovery on Tuesday revealed that it reached a $3.8 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $400 million in tow.

BakerHostetler Flips Holland & Knight's Antitrust Co-Lead

An attorney with nearly 25 years of experience in commercial and antitrust litigation has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Philadelphia office after five years with Holland & Knight LLP.

FTC Secures $12M Settlement Over Edwards-JC Medical Deal

California-based Edwards Lifesciences and Singapore's Genesis Medtech agreed to pay a combined $12 million to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that Edwards attempted to evade the Hart-Scott-Rodi... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Cleary, Paul Weiss, Fried Frank

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. acquires specialty chemicals technology company Element Solutions Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. buys Crinetics Pharmaceuticals ... (more story)

Digital Health & Technology More

Apple Can't Get Judge To Toss Masimo's $634M Patent Verdict

Apple has lost its bid to dodge a jury's finding that it owes $634 million for infringing a Masimo Corp. patent after a California federal judge rejected the tech giant's challenge to how the court construed a... (more story)

Pa. Hospital Must Face Bulk Of Website Pixel Tracking Row

A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health inform... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Vacates $12.7M Copyright Award Against Gov't

The Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated a $12.7 million copyright award against the federal government over unauthorized copies of software for a project on military health records, holding that the trial judg... (more story)

23andMe Bankruptcy Plan Bars Data Breach Suit In Calif.

A Missouri bankruptcy judge has told attorneys representing California the state can no longer press its data breach lawsuit against the reorganized 23andMe, finding the state court action is barred by the com... (more story)

Families Cite Geofence Ruling In Newborn Blood Testing Case

A group of parents suing the state of Michigan over the way newborn blood samples are collected and stored has asked a federal judge to revive its claims by citing recently decided U.S. Supreme Court precedent... (more story)

Healthcare Analytics Co. Beats Data Breach Suit, For Good

Arbor Associates permanently beat patients' proposed negligence class action alleging their sensitive information was stolen following a 2025 data security incident that resulted in an uptick in spam calls, af... (more story)

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Albertsons Data Suggests Opioids Went Missing, Expert Says

Albertsons pharmacies in Washington state received considerably more opioid medications from distributors between 2009 and 2015 than the company reported dispensing — a sign of potential diversion, according t... (more story)

Vanda's NDA Rejection Challenge Can't Be Heard At DC Court

A D.C. federal judge has said he no longer has jurisdiction to hear Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s challenge alleging the FDA violated the Appointments Clause by allowing a non-officer to exercise "signatory aut... (more story)

SD Judge Blocks Abortion Ad Ban Against Atty, Nonprofit

A South Dakota federal judge barred the state from enforcing an abortion advertising ban against a reproductive health education nonprofit and an attorney, ruling that doing so would likely violate the First Amendment.

Top Gov't Contracting Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2026

Federal courts in the latter half of 2026 are expected to decide if the Trump administration overstepped by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and whether the False Claims Act's qui... (more story)

Md. Judge Stays Reforms Set To Shrink ACA Coverage Pool

A Maryland federal judge stayed a set of Affordable Care Act marketplace reforms that were set to take effect Monday, finding several cities and groups representing doctors and small businesses were likely to ... (more story)

Medical Groups Urge 1st Circ. To Back Vaccine Panel Freeze

The American Academy of Pediatrics and other public health organizations on Friday defended before the First Circuit a Massachusetts judge's decision to block Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine p... (more story)

FDA, Drugmakers Urge 5th Circ. To Allow Abortion Pill By Mail

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the makers of the abortion medication mifepristone have urged the Fifth Circuit not to reinstate an in-person dispensing requirement, arguing that doing so would disru... (more story)