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Life Sciences °µÍø½ûÇø provides breaking legal news and analysis on the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Coverage includes high-stakes litigation and policy developments that affect life sciences companies, as well as licensing deals, mergers, and other corporate transactions.
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Latest News in Life Sciences
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June 05, 2025
High Court Drops Class Cert. Clarification Bid
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to weigh in on whether federal courts can certify classes that include uninjured members, holding it improperly agreed to hear a disability discrimination case against diagnostics company Labcorp that raised the important question.
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June 04, 2025
Calif. Won't Get Insulin Pricing Case Sent Back To State Court
The New Jersey federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation accusing Express Scripts, CVS Caremark and other pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to fix the prices of insulin on Wednesday refused to ship a case brought by the state of California back to state court.
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June 04, 2025
23andMe, Bidders Agree To Post-Ch. 11 Auction Offer Process
The winner of 23andMe's Chapter 11 auction and a nonprofit started by its co-founder can improve their offers to acquire the DNA testing company under procedures agreed to Wednesday in Missouri bankruptcy court, despite disruptions from a tornado warning and an attorney letting slip nonpublic details of an offer.
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June 04, 2025
USPTO Says Study Disproves Pharma Patent Thicket Claims
A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office unit has found that pharmaceutical patent thickets are rare after investigating arguments about their effect on drug pricing, the division's leader said Wednesday as part of a discussion on large patent families.
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June 04, 2025
SEC Gets $1.1M Win Against Alleged Ga. Crypto Scammer
A Georgia man is on the hook for over $1.1 million in penalties after failing to defend himself from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations he ran an $800,000 affinity fraud scheme involving a purported cryptocurrency he said was backed by gold and stem cell technology.Â

Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Drug and medical device lobbying
- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Drug and medical device recalls
- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Patent disputes, including
- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
Readership
- Life sciences lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals