A D.C. federal judge dismissed racketeering claims on Tuesday brought by five Medicare and Medicaid recovery companies accusing Pfizer and others of abusing independent charity patient assistance programs to drive up drug prices, saying too many "unsupported inferences" were required by the court.
Apple urged a California federal judge on Monday to impose sanctions on chipmaker Rivos and its Quinn Emanuel attorneys over alleged spoliation of evidence in a lawsuit alleging the startup hired former Apple engineers who stole trade secrets, claiming the company and its counsel made multiple misrepresentations to the court.
An Illinois federal judge granted rapper French Montana a partial win on Thursday in a copyright lawsuit over his song "Ain't Worried About Nothin," ruling that the artist who brought the suit is limited to one potential award of statutory damages for any infringement occurring after 2016.
A former top executive of a Michigan regional hospital system who filed a whistleblower complaint is receiving over $12 million as part of $69 million settlements her former employer and two physicians reached with federal and state authorities over alleged False Claims Act violations, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
In an effort to convince a California federal judge that Activision's claims against German entities over alleged cheat codes for Call of Duty don't belong overseas, the gaming company's attorney said the defendants' activities are so specially targeted at California that they are even taunting him by name online.