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By Diana Novak Jones, Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken |
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It's been 100 days since President Trump took office for the second time, and key parts of his agenda have met resistance in court. Federal judges have issued more than 60 rulings impeding the Republican president's efforts to crack down on immigration, slash government spending and purge civil society of his ideological enemies. Our colleague Jack Queen has a look at some of the more than 200 lawsuits filed to try to block various Trump policies, 100 days into his second term as president. Read it here. |
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That's how much California's Sutter Health has agreed to pay to resolve a class action accusing it of artificially driving up insurance premiums. The class of more than 3 million small businesses and individuals alleged Sutter, one of the largest health systems in the United States, was accused of violating U.S. antitrust law by forcing health plans to agree to contracts that prevented them from steering patients to lower cost, non-Sutter hospitals. |
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"Antitrust in the United States is law enforcement. It is not regulation."
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—Gail Slater, head of the DOJ's antitrust division, in her first public speech. Slater laid out a vision for "America First" antitrust, calling it a way to prevent corporate regulation. Robust antitrust enforcement, including merger enforcement, is necessary as a check on the free market that will ultimately benefit consumers, Slater said in remarks prepared for delivery at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Read more. |
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- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could upend class action litigation. The justices are weighing whether class actions can be certified when they include uninjured members. Jones Day's Noel Francisco will represent business interests, against consumer advocate Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler.
- The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors is slated to take the final approval vote on a $4 billion settlement of more than 6,800 sex abuse claims dating back to 1959. The abuse was alleged to have taken place in foster care and juvenile detention facilities.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to turn over the names of any migrants flown recently from Guantanamo Bay to El Salvador so he could determine whether they were deported in violation of a court order he issued. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said at a hearing in Boston that he needed to assess the administration's claims that the removal of four Venezuelans from Guantanamo did not flout Murphy's order from March because the flight was conducted by the Department of Defense.
- A jury said Samsung owes an inventor's company more than $278.7 million for infringing two patents related to wireless communications technology.
- PepsiCo's Gatorade unit won the dismissal of a lawsuit by former world champion sprinter Issam Asinga, who blamed his four-year doping ban on eating "recovery gummies" contaminated by a performance-enhancing drug. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel in White Plains, New York, said Asinga, who is from Suriname, did not allege that eating the gummies caused physical injury.
- The NCAA has convinced a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking compensation for thousands of former student athletes who played team sports in college prior to 2016. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan said the claims in the proposed antitrust class action against the NCAA were filed too late.
- A new lawsuit claims mental health care network Carelon Behavioral Health, which contracts with the health insurance plan for New York state employees, artificially inflated its list of care providers in a so-called "ghost network." The lawsuit accuses Carelon of including people that don't exist, don't accept the insurance or don't do mental healthcare in its list of in-network providers.
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- Jenner & Block added Ashley Callen, the former general counsel to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, as a D.C.-based partner. She will co-chair the firm's congressional investigations practice. (Jenner & Block)
- WilmerHale brought back Brian Boynton, the former head of the DOJ's civil division, as chair of its government and regulatory litigation practice. (WilmerHale)
- Baker Donelson hired health partner Amanda Copsey in Baltimore from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Inspector General. (Baker Donelson)
- Cleary Gottlieb picked up restructuring partner Josh Brody in New York from Gibson Dunn. (Cleary)
- Reed Smith hired labor and employment partner David Long-Daniels in Atlanta from Squire Patton Boggs. (Reed Smith)
- Morgan Lewis added tax partner Andrew Callaghan in London from Milbank. (Morgan Lewis)
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Companies that raise capital through public offerings of stock, such as in an IPO, have historically faced a heightened risk of being sued in securities class actions when their stock price falls below the offering price, write Virginia Milstead, Mark Foster and Michelle Portillo of Skadden. Two recent court decisions have reduced the heightened litigation risk, to an extent. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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