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Walgreens Wins Round In Dispute With Law Firm In Drug Pricing Suit

11th February 2022
In her ruling, Judge Kendall said that Walgreens had presented sufficient information to sustain its claim that law firm Crowell & Moring has breached its fiduciary duties to Walgreens based on its former legal work for the company.  Walgreens made the allegation as a counterclaim against the plaintiffs represented by Crowell & Moring in a […]
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Court Allows Apple And Patent Rival Uniloc To Keep License Terms Secret For Time Being

10th February 2022
In an unorthodox joint effort, tech giant Apple and its frequent patent rival Uniloc have persuaded a US appeals court to allow them to keep the terms of Uniloc’s patent licenses secret for the time being.  The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said a San Francisco-based judge had previously exaggerated the value […]
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Teva Pharmaceuticals To Pay Up To $3.6 Billion In US Opioid Settlement

10th February 2022
Earlier this week, Israel-based Teva reached a $225 million settlement with Texas, with $150 million of the settlement paid in cash and the rest paid in medicine.  Speaking to Reuters, Teva Chief Executive Kåre Schultz said that Teva would likely pay $2.7 billion to $3.6 billion across 15 years. Schultz based his estimate on the […]
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Microsoft’s Top Lawyer And Wife Donate $5 Million To Columbia Law School

9th February 2022
Microsoft president Brad Smith, who oversees the company’s legal affairs, and his wife Kathy Surace-Smith, who serves as senior vice president at biotechnology company NanoString, have donated $5 million to endow the human rights clinic at their former university, Columbia Law School.  In honour of the Smith’s donation, Columbia Law School has renamed its clinic […]
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Oversight Board Says Facebook Should Guard Against Revealing Home Addresses

8th February 2022
According to its oversight board, Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, should not allow users to share people’s private residential information across its platforms even when the information is already publicly available.  The board has also advised Meta to create a communications channel to help “doxxing” victims better explain their case to the company. Doxxing is […]
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Judge Dismisses Former Amazon Employee's Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination

8th February 2022
Smalls alleged that Amazon had subjected a workforce of predominantly non-white staff to conditions that were inferior to that of its predominantly white managers by failing to provide necessary protective equipment.  However, US District Judge Rachel Kovner rejected Smalls’ claim that he was fired by Amazon because he is Black and had opposed the company’s […]
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Apple Wins New Trial In Wireless Patent Case Following $85 Million Loss

7th February 2022
The decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is the second occasion in the patent dispute in which a court tossed a multi-million-dollar jury verdict for WiLAN due to issues with its expert testimony.  In a statement, WiLAN said it views the decision by the court as favourable, noting that the […]
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US Legal Sector Adds 1,800 Jobs In January

7th February 2022
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed an initial 1,176,600 legal services sector jobs last month, up 3.5% year over year. This figure had climbed steadily since October, when employment in the sector first exceeded its historical peak of 1,165,300 jobs in February 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic swung into full force.  The legal […]
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Former Pfizer Researchers Stole Secrets To Launch Diabetes Drug, According To Lawsuit

4th February 2022
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has sued two former employees and their company, claiming they stole trade secrets related to a treatment Pfizer is currently developing for diabetes and obesity.  According to the complaint, Min Zhong and Xiayang Qiu stole the “playbook” and critical data for the treatment then founded Regor Therapeutics in 2018 to commercialise their […]
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Credit Suisse To Face Investors’ Currency Rigging Lawsuit

2nd February 2022
Credit Suisse is the final bank defendant left in the antitrust litigation which began in 2013. Since, 15 other banks have reached $2.31 billion of settlements.  Investors claim Credit Suisse traders shared non-public pricing information with traders at other banks, including in an online chat room called “Yen Cartel.” US District Judge Lorna Schofield said […]
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