
Healthcare Deals That Shaped 2025: Midyear Highlights
As 2025 hits its midyear point, Law360 Healthcare Authority asked attorneys for their top choices for influential deals that have helped shape the healthcare industry so far this year.

RFK Jr. Walks Back Wearables Message Amid Data Concerns
Amid pushback about mass data collection and privacy risks, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is softening his recent message that every American should have a "wearable" health device.

High Court Ruling Puts Limits On Medicaid Enforcement
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bars a Medicaid beneficiary from suing over her right to choose a medical provider could make more states comfortable following South Carolina’s lead and cutting off Medicaid funding for disfavored providers.
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The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.
The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.
A ruling by the full Federal Circuit invited greater scrutiny of patent damages testimony, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting director established new criteria for rejecting patent challenges. H... (more story)
A Delaware federal judge Tuesday tossed Acuitas Therapeutics' lawsuit seeking to have its scientists added as inventors on seven Alnylam Pharmaceuticals patents tied to mRNA technology, saying the complaint do... (more story)
The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday shot down Mylan's request for the court to reconsider a March ruling that the company's planned generic version of schizophrenia drug Invega Trinza would cause physicians to... (more story)
The Federal Circuit ruled Monday that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly invalidated all the claims of a patent that Bausch & Lomb licenses for its Lumify eye drops, saying the board used an incorrect c... (more story)
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Medical information provider Healthline Media LLC will pay $1.55 million and refrain from sharing certain information with advertisers and other third parties that may reveal website visitors' health diagnoses... (more story)
A California-led coalition of nearly two dozen state attorneys general is pushing a federal court to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from giving immigration officials "unfettered access" ... (more story)
A New York federal jury has concluded that the TriZetto Group, a healthcare software company, is entitled to nearly $70 million in compensatory damages due to Syntel Inc.'s copyright infringement and trade sec... (more story)
Thousands of rural healthcare clinics that rely on federal subsidies to provide telehealth services to millions of patients secured a major win when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the funding for a key Fede... (more story)
A New York federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action accusing Teladoc of unlawfully disclosing website visitors' personal health information to Meta, preserving eight wiretapping and consumer prote... (more story)
The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director rejected 21 petitions for Patent Trial and Appeal Board reviews on Wednesday, and the board's acting deputy chief judge denied another 12 where the acting d... (more story)
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States accusing generic-drug makers of fixing prices are continuing to object to a $10 million settlement struck between Florida and Sandoz, arguing that it limits their ability to negotiate deals while lettin... (more story)
A proposed class of buyers of Natera Inc.'s noninvasive prenatal tests has asked a California federal court to give preliminary approval to an $8.25 million settlement to resolve claims that the company knew t... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to hear a case focused on parental consent and abortion in Montana, as two conservative justices said the decision shouldn't be seen as a rejection by the justices of t... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must restore a swath of webpages and datasets it took down following a Trump administration executive order seeking to root out references to so-called gender i... (more story)
Michigan's highest court won't weigh in on the constitutionality of the state's caps on medical malpractice awards, rejecting a federal district court's certified question Thursday.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear challenges to West Virginia and Idaho laws barring transgender athletes from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity, putting yet more ant... (more story)