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  UnitedHealthcare Defrauded Mass. Of $100M, AG Says

  By Julie Manganis

  UnitedHealthcare's "growth at all costs strategy" led the insurer's Massachusetts subsidiary to overcharge the s...(read more)

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  New Fortress Energy Units Seek Ch. 15 For $8.1B Debt Swap

  By Rick Archer

  Two New Fortress Energy affiliates asked a New York bankruptcy judge Friday to recognize their efforts to restru...(read more)

• 'Pervasive Bad Faith': Uber Targets Sex Assault MDL Plaintiff

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Uber Technologies Inc. accused a bellwether plaintiff of numerous discovery violations Friday in multidistrict litigation over alleged passenger sexual assaults, urging a California federal judge to issue sanctions for "pervasive bad faith" that has "plagued the discovery process."

• X Corp. Calls Apple, OpenAI Deposition Bid 'Opportunism'

  By Spencer Brewer

  X Corp. on Friday called an attempt by Apple Inc. and OpenAI to conduct more than 10 depositions "simply opportunism at its most brazen," saying that the court should deny the defendants' bid to get more discovery in X's sweeping antitrust suit.

• Wrongful Death Claims Settled Before Baltimore Bridge Trial

  By Linda Chiem

  The families of the six construction workers who died in Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster have reached confidential settlements with the owner and manager of the cargo carrier that slammed into the bridge and triggered its collapse, according to court filings Friday.

• $7.25B Roundup Deal Sent To Calif. MDL

  By Emily Field

  The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday sent the case that resulted in a yet-to-be-finalized $7.25 billion settlement with Monsanto over claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer to multidistrict litigation in California federal court, despite protests from the proposed class.

• 7th Circ. Revives Chinese IP Defendants' Email Service Case

  By Celeste Bott

  The Seventh Circuit concluded on Friday that using email to serve Chinese defendants in "Schedule A" trademark cases is improper under the rules of the Hague Service Convention, but that an Illinois federal judge handling one such counterfeiting action must first determine whether the convention applies at all to the given case.

• Facing Scrutiny, 'Schedule A' Suits Grow Beyond Chicago

  By Ivan Moreno

  Federal lawsuits that target dozens or even hundreds of online sellers at once kept climbing in 2025 and spread beyond their Chicago stronghold, even as new data shows more friction for brand owners' mass anti-counterfeiting strategy.

• NY Judge Doubts Nussbaum-Linked Firms Belong In Ch. 11

  By Emily Lever

  A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday questioned whether his court was the proper venue to wind down two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum as the debtors sought to ditch an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

• DC Circ. Revives $21M Claim Against Guinea

  By Caroline Simson

  The D.C. Circuit Friday ordered a lower court to reconsider a Seychellois telecommunications company's bid to enforce an arbitral award of more than $21 million against the Republic of Guinea, ruling that its sovereign immunity analysis was "too narrow."

• Full 4th Circ. To Rethink W.Va., Md. 340B Drug Discount Laws

  By Mark Payne

  The full Fourth Circuit will revisit two panel decisions that created a circuit split when they temporarily blocked a pair of state laws that barred drugmakers from prohibiting federally funded hospitals from contracting with an unlimited number of pharmacies to dispense discounted drugs in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. 

• Calif. Supreme Court OKs Challenges To Blanket Judge DQs

  By Emily Sawicki

  The California Supreme Court has opened the door to challenges to blanket judicial disqualifications across the largest state court system in the country, partially overturning a precedent established nearly 50 years ago.

• Gov't Pressed On Trump's Authority For H-1B Visa Fee

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday searched for the limits of the president's power to restrict foreign workers from entering the U.S., as the government defended attaching a $100,000 fee to process certain skilled-worker visas.

• Anthropic's Valuation Soars To $965B, Surpassing OpenAI

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has hit a post-money valuation of $965 billion after securing $65 billion of investor commitments in its massive Series H funding round, officially surpassing the valuation of its rival OpenAI.