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BOSTON - A federal judge on Feb. 13 awarded a Massachusetts restaurant summary judgment in a trip-and-fall case involving a revolving door after finding that an expert for the plaintiff provided no admissible evidence that the door malfunctioned (Marjorie...

PASADENA, Calif. - The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 11 affirmed a lower federal court's dismissal of California unfair competition law (UCL) and negligence claims against manufacturers of the antidepressant drug Lexapro, finding that...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - The Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 13 said it has asked Eisai Co. Ltd. to voluntarily withdraw the company's Belviq and Belviq XR prescription weight loss drug from the U.S. market because the company's safety clinical...

CINCINNATI - The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 12 stayed the production of some opioid prescribing data by pharmacy chain defendants in the opioid multidistrict litigation and invited the opioid MDL court to respond to the pharmacies'...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A California federal judge on Feb. 11 granted a motion by Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth A. Holmes and president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to dismiss fraud claims that relate to nonpaying patients and doctors, but denied dismissal...

CHICAGO - A federal judge in Illinois on Feb. 10 awarded summary judgment to a seller of manufactured homes accused of construction and structural defects, finding that a man breached the terms of the construction agreement by failing to pay for the building...

GEORGETOWN, Del. - A Master in Chancery in Delaware on Feb. 6 recommended denying a motion to dismiss filed by a homebuilder accused of failing to inform a buyer about mold infestation in a home, concluding that the court had subject matter jurisdiction...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald J. Trump's 2021 federal budget released Feb. 10 by the Office of Management and Budget includes a proposal to remove regulatory authority over tobacco products from the Food and Drug Administration to a new agency...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPDML) on Feb. 4 denied a motion by the state of Illinois to vacate the order conditionally transferring its case into the Juul Labs Inc. multidistrict litigation, holding that Illinois'...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A reinsurer in Feb. 5 motion asks an Oklahoma federal court for entry of a default against a telecommunications company and one of the company's employees in a declaratory judgment action concerning coverage for an underlying personal...

DENVER - A railway worker who was injured while checking the contents of railcars failed to show that the workplace provided by his employer violated the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 5,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judicial panel on Feb. 6 centralized in a Florida federal court 141 federal lawsuits alleging that the over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac contains or metabolizes into N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), an alleged carcinogen...

DETROIT - A Michigan federal judge on Feb. 3 agreed with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that a declaratory judgment action stemming from a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak must be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction...

PHILADELPHIA - A former vice president at a New York generic drug manufacturer was indicted Feb. 4 for making a false statement and violating the federal antitrust law by conspiring to fix prices, rig bids and allocate customers (United States v. Ara...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida jury on Jan. 31 confronted the question of whether a man used cigarettes because of tobacco company conduct or because of his own desire to smoke as lawyers delivered opening statements in a Florida tobacco trial (Edward...