The Justice Department’s latest announcement around health care fraud enforcement is one of the more consequential legal developments for companies operating in regulated industries this week. According to the reporting referenced, federal authorities have highlighted a major enforcement push targeting fraud schemes tied to health care billing and reimbursement, underscoring that prosecutors continue to view the sector as a core…
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Vivint LLC has filed a new petition for inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in IPR2026-00375, opened on June 1, 2026. At this early stage, the docket reflects the filing of the proceeding but does not yet publicly provide the full set of petition details needed to identify the challenged patent claims, the patent owner, or…
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court has invalidated a closely watched settlement between the City of Tulsa and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation that sought to define how criminal cases involving Native Americans would be handled within reservation boundaries. In State of Oklahoma ex rel. Stitt v. City of Tulsa, the court concluded the agreement was not enforceable under Oklahoma law because it…
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Seagate Technology has agreed to pay $175 million to resolve shareholder claims alleging the company misled investors about hard-drive sales to Huawei and its exposure under U.S. export-control laws. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court in San Francisco, ranks among the more significant recent securities resolutions tied to sanctions and export-control compliance issues.

The shareholder case centered on allegations…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted institution in IPR2026-00189, finding that the petitioner made the required threshold showing that at least one challenged claim is reasonably likely to be unpatentable. At the institution stage, that is the key question under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a): not whether the patent is ultimately invalid, but whether the petition presents a sufficiently strong…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously rejected Mexico’s effort to hold American gun manufacturers liable for cartel violence, shutting down a closely watched suit that sought roughly $10 billion in damages. The decision is a significant win for the firearms industry and a forceful reaffirmation of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, or PLCAA, the federal statute that…
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The SEC’s reported move to withdraw a judgment against the Winklevoss-linked crypto exchange Gemini marks one of the more consequential digital-asset enforcement developments now circulating in the legal market. Even without a fully public merits ruling to dissect, the significance is clear: a federal securities regulator appears to be stepping back from a previously obtained result in a high-profile crypto…
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The U.S. Supreme Court closed out a closely watched cross-border liability fight this week by unanimously rejecting Mexico’s effort to hold American gun manufacturers responsible for firearm trafficking and cartel violence south of the border. The decision is a major win for the firearms industry, but its significance extends well beyond that sector: it reinforces the protective scope of the…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has approved a settlement ending the long-running dispute over Rio Grande water allocations among Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, with the United States also participating in the case. The decree resolves one of the Court’s highest-profile original-jurisdiction water fights and establishes the framework for how water deliveries from New Mexico to Texas will be handled going…
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Amazon.com Services LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, docketed as IPR2026-00361 on May 26, 2026. At this stage, the caption identifies Amazon as the petitioner, but the publicly available docket summary does not yet reveal the patent owner or the specific patent number being challenged. Even so, the filing is…
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In a 6-3 decision issued May 28, 2026, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment below in docket 24-820, with Justice Barrett writing for the Court. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh joined the majority. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Kagan, concurred in the judgment, while Justice Jackson dissented. <a href=”https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Supreme_Court/24-820/Adjudged_to_be_AFFIRMED_Barrett_J_delivered_the_opinion_of_the_Court_in_which_Roberts_C_J_and_Thomas_Alito_Gorsuch_and_Kavanaugh_JJ_joined_Sotomayor_J_filed_an_opinion_concurring_in_the_judgment_in_which_Kagan_J_joined_Jackson_J_filed_a_dissenting_opinion_VIDED/”>View full case on Docket Alarm…
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In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Barrett, the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court and reinforced a familiar theme of the current Term: when Congress channels review into a specific statutory scheme, lower federal courts may not use more general equitable or habeas theories to work around it. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Kagan, concurred only in the judgment,…
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A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from taking further steps to establish or operate a proposed $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” a program designed to compensate individuals the administration says were harmed by government “weaponization.” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s order pauses the initiative for at least two weeks while the court considers a broader legal…
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