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The Seventh Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit by a former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP executive accusing the accounting firm's disability insurance provider of wrongly denying her long-term disability benefits for her fibromyalgia, affirming a lower court's "detailed and diligent opinion" that found her condition limiting, but not disabling.
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7th Circ. Backs Hartford's Denial Of Benefits To Ex-PwC Exec

By Rae Ann Varona

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit by a former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP executive accusing the accounting firm's disability insurance provider of wrongly denying her long-term disability benefits for her fibromyalgia, affirming a lower court's "detailed and diligent opinion" that found her condition limiting, but not disabling.

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'Forum Shopping' Center Stage At 6th Circ. Drug Pricing Args

By Jeff Overley

As part of an expansive effort to tee up U.S. Supreme Court review, pharmaceutical industry-backed opponents of Medicare's drug price negotiations entered less-than-hospitable territory at the Sixth Circuit, where judges pointedly questioned a local business group's basis for challenging a national healthcare program.

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Justices Grant Compensation Leeway To Late-Filing Vets

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Barring Act's six-year statute of limitations for certain military-related claims does not apply to combat-related special compensation, a win for a proposed class of roughly 9,000 veterans who say they deserve additional pay despite filing late.

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LITIGATION

Humana, Aetna Underpaid For 340B Drugs, New Suits Say

By Gianna Ferrarin

Humana and Aetna are facing new claims in a trio of suits filed in North Carolina federal court alleging they underpaid health systems for drugs purchased through the federal 340B drug discount program.

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Inovalon Investors' Revived Chancery Suit Moves Forward

By Katryna Perera

A Delaware chancellor sent into discovery investors' claim that Inovalon didn't properly disclose that a consortium of private equity firms that bought the healthcare data company paid $400 million in fees to its financial adviser before the transaction, dismissing some claims but finding it is "reasonably conceivable" that the suit's defendants acted in bad faith.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Âé¶¹´«Ã½360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 last week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off against Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles. Here, Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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IRS, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Settle $790K Worker Credit Refund Suit

By Anna Scott Farrell

The Internal Revenue Service settled a lawsuit seeking more than $790,000 in pandemic-era worker tax credits by a law firm that had claimed the agency was delaying paying out, according to a dismissal order Friday by a Pennsylvania federal court.

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7 Willkie Partners Join Cooley Over Trump EO Deal

By Aebra Coe

Seven partners have left Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, including both managing partners of the firm's San Francisco office, to join Cooley LLP, reportedly over their former employer's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration related to a potential executive order.

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Jackson Walker, Ex-Judge Facing Class Action Over Romance

By Catherine Marfin

A former bankruptcy judge and Jackson Walker LLP have been hit with another lawsuit over the judge's secret romance with a former firm partner, this time a proposed class action from a group of bondholders of financial company GWG Holdings Inc.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Compliance experts say corporate leaders with business interests south of the border are worried about possible terrorism-related charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with the cartels. Meanwhile, the head of Glass Lewis pushed back against allegations from some lawmakers concerning the firm's "expansive, opaque and ideologically driven influence" on companies. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Beltway Moves: Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½, MoFo, V&E

By Alison Knezevich

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½ PLLC this week in one of the latest high-profile moves in the Washington, D.C., legal industry over the first half of June.

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Grassley Budget Bill Calls For More Use Of Injunction Bonds

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has released his portion of the budget reconciliation text, which would bolster the use of injunction bonds to raise the stakes for plaintiffs seeking to halt White House initiatives.

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits.

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Akerman Seeks To Move Malpractice Suits From Medical Cos.

By Madison Arnold

Akerman LLP has asked to have two malpractice cases from medical laboratories moved from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade County, where the firm's related unpaid fees case against Rennova Health Inc. is being litigated.

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Former NJ Deputy AG Claims Office Fired Him For His ADHD

By Beverly Banks

A former deputy attorney general who worked on environmental cases for New Jersey accused the state of retaliating against him when he sought accommodations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and later terminated him for his disability.

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2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Trump Appeal Of $5M Assault Verdict

By Cara Salvatore

The full Second Circuit refused Friday to revisit President Donald Trump's challenge to writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million sexual assault finding against him, with two judges dissenting.

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Ex-Attorney Cops To Tax Evasion In Massachusetts

By Anna Scott Farrell

A former attorney pled guilty to tax evasion in a Massachusetts federal court Friday after prosecutors accused him of transferring money to his wife to hide his earnings and using his business accounts to pay for guns and jewelry.

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Wash. High Court Suspends Atty Amid Delays In Bar Probe

By Rachel Riley

The Washington State Supreme Court has suspended an Evergreen state attorney's legal license, at the state bar association's request, for allegedly stalling disciplinary investigations into her work representing student families in two federal lawsuits against school districts.

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The Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Loophole: How Debt Cos. Snare NC Consumers

By Daniel Connolly

To get around bans in North Carolina and many other states, debt relief companies set up facade law firms - companies that are law firms in name only, with a tiny number of lawyers nominally serving thousands of clients, consumer advocates and regulators say.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Abrams & Bayliss

Addleshaw Goddard

Akerman LLP

Bandas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm

Blake Morgan LLP

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Brabners LLP

Brown Rudnick

Brownstein Hyatt

Burr & Forman

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cramer & Anderson

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

DeBofsky Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Domnick Cunningham

Donnelly Conroy

Fenwick & West

Foster Garvey

Fox Rothschild

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goldman Davis

Greenberg Traurig

Haynes Boone

Higgs LLP

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Keker Van Nest & Peters

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Laytons LLP

Manatt Phelps

Martin LLP

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Michelman & Robinson

Mitchell & Shapiro

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Morrison Foerster

Myerson Solicitors

Ostroff Injury Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Personius Melber

Pinsent Masons

Porter Hedges

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Rogers Joseph O'Donnell

Searcy Denney

Setfords Solicitors

Shakespeare Martineau

Sheppard Mullin

Sher Tremonte

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Stinson LLP

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

TLT LLP

Taylor Wessing

Thompson Hine

Torridon Âé¶¹´«Ã½

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Vinson & Elkins

Walker Jones

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Wilkinson Stekloff

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Wright Hassall

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

AbbVie Inc.

Abbott Laboratories

Aetna Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American International Group Inc.

Associated Press

Balfour Beatty PLC

Beyond Finance Inc.

Biogen Inc.

British Broadcasting Corp.

Brown & Brown Inc.

Client Services Inc.

Discover Bank

Evercore Inc.

Federalist Society

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Hisense Co. Ltd.

Humana Inc.

Ineos Group Ltd.

Inovalon Holdings Inc.

Institute for Justice

Internet Archive

Investments Ltd.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lex Machina Inc.

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Manchester United

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Veterans Legal Services Program

National Women's Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Center

Nokia Corp.

North Carolina Justice Center

North Carolina State Bar

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Pharmacyclics, Inc.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Progress Software Corp.

Santander Consumer USA Inc.

Severn Trent PLC

The Bozzuto Group Inc.

The Cigna Group

The District of Columbia Bar

The New York Times Co.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

United Services Automobile Association

Washington & Lee University

Washington State Bar Association

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Central Intelligence Agency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Legal Services Corp.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Department of Justice

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Social Security Administration

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court