Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd., has agreed to pay $59.7 million to settle allegations that Biohaven violated the anti-kickback statute by paying improper incentives to healthcare providers to prescribe its migraine medication, Nurtec ODT. The settlement resolves claims that Biohaven knowingly caused... Read More »
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a decision blocking Iowa from implementing a law that would have allowed for the arrest and prosecution of undocumented immigrants, citing federal supremacy over immigration enforcement. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Iowa’s law, which criminalized “illegal reentry”... Read More »
A class action lawsuit against the U.S. Government resolved itself through settlement on January 3, 2025, in Farrell v. Department of Defense. The suit was first filed in 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by discharged military veterans. The lawsuit had been brought by... Read More »
On Thursday, a federal judge in Seattle issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling the directive “blatantly unconstitutional.” U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, halted the executive order just three days... Read More »
Justin Baldoni, actor and co-founder of Wayfarer Studios, filed suit against actress Blake Lively, his co-star in the film ‘It Ends With Us,’ along with her celebrity husband Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane for $400 million. This new filing by Mr. Baldoni in the Federal District Court for the... Read More »
President Donald Trump faces a wave of lawsuits challenging his executive order to curtail birthright citizenship. Democratic-led states, civil rights organizations, and advocacy groups filed multiple lawsuits on Tuesday, asserting the policy violates the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Trump’s executive order, signed on Monday, directs U.S. agencies to deny citizenship... Read More »
Kroger, one of the largest grocery stores in the U.S., is settling a lawsuit with Kentucky for $110 million, which the state says it will use to combat the highest death rate due to overdoses in the country. The state’s lawsuit against The Kroger Co. focused on the in-store pharmacies... Read More »
Sam Altman, the founder of the wildly popular AI generator software ChatGPT is denying the allegation that he sexually assaulted his younger sister, Ann Altman. Ann filed a disturbingly detailed lawsuit against her brother on the 6th of January in a US District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri.... Read More »
Just hours after Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 47th president of the United States, he signed forty-six presidential actions, from building a border wall and reinstating his previous “Remain in Mexico” policy to retaking the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, just to name a... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the pharmacy giant of exacerbating the nation’s opioid crisis by filling millions of allegedly unlawful prescriptions. Filed Friday, the complaint alleges that Walgreens has, since August 2012, dispensed prescriptions lacking legitimate medical purposes, including opioids prescribed in... Read More »
Johns Hopkins University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have agreed to pay a combined $35.2 million to settle claims that they gave preferential treatment to wealthy student applicants, in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. The settlements, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, bring the total amount recovered... Read More »
Stephanie Cosme, 32, was working for Sumaria Systems, a contractor working for the US Navy, in California on Sept. 7, 2023, when she was killed by an airplane propeller. Her family, after waiting for eight months to read the official report, filed suit against Sumaria Systems and its director Derek... Read More »
Disney faces new legal troubles surrounding its hit animated franchise Moana. Animator Buck Woodall filed a lawsuit on Friday in California federal court, claiming Disney plagiarized his screenplay for an animated film titled Bucky. The suit alleges that both Moana and its sequel drew heavily from Woodall’s work, which he... Read More »
In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers seeking to classify workers as exempt from overtime pay under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) only need to prove their case by a "preponderance of the evidence," not the stricter "clear and convincing evidence" standard.... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the popular app. The decision, delivered unanimously, puts TikTok on course for a potential nationwide shutdown starting Jan. 19, just one day before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. The... Read More »
