Public Policy
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A group of major pharmaceutical companies has agreed to pay a combined $242 million to resolve allegations they bilked Illinois’ government by inflating prices for medicines covered by the state’s Medicaid program, the Prairie State’s attorney general announced Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of federal watchdogs has criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for determining that a whistleblower’s report about allegedly inappropriate White House interaction with Ukraine wasn’t an “urgent concern,” thereby blocking the complaint from being sent to Congress… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge held U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department in contempt Thursday and fined them $100,000 for their “minimal efforts” to comply with the court’s order to halt collection of student loan debt from former Corinthian Colleges enrollees… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday shot down a Texas man’s bid to certify two proposed classes in a case that accuses Boston Scientific of calling people with automated invitations to sales events, saying the suit hinged too heavily on individualized questions… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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New York City and California sued the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday in New York federal court, accusing the federal mail carrier of costing them millions of dollars in lost taxes by failing to properly police contraband cigarette shipments… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 