A federal judge in Pennsylvania rejected CVS Health’s “ploy” of claiming privilege and work-product protection over communications with a third party about flash freezing shipping processes in a qui tam action against the retail pharmacy chain. Concluding a majority of the communications did not pertain to any legal advice or questions that…

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, arguing posttrial against a jury finding that two of plaintiffs’ patents were valid, got an opposite finding, erasing a $107.5 million verdict. At conclusion of a five-day jury trial in May in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, a jury found AstraZeneca infringed on…

Despite slamming the brakes on its Combating Auto Retail Scams rule this summer pending legal challenges by auto dealers, the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday secured a $2.6 million settlement with an Arizona dealer chain for just the type of deceptive practices the regulation is meant to combat. But the…

Federal Judge Sanctions Pittsburgh Firm for ‘Campaign of Deception’ in Debt Collection Disputes | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/08/15/federal-judge-sanctions-pittsburgh-firm-for-campaign-of-deception-in-debt-collection-disputes/ U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon of the Western District of Pennsylvania. Courtesy photo NEWS “Counsel are well advised to heed one lesson from this experience in particular, among the…

Nasdaq filed a complaint Thursday accusing an unnamed Singaporean company of misappropriating its financial data feeds and reselling them at discount prices, undermining the New York-based company’s own business. The trade secrets complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division by Brian…

The federal judge in charge of imposing wide-scale changes to how Google runs its app store said he has no intention of micromanaging the tech giant but warned that Google should get ready to open the floodgates. “We’re going to tear the barriers down. When you have a mountain that’s…