Courts

A U.S. appeals court has dismissed the bankruptcy case filed by a Johnson & Johnson spinoff company. Around 40,000 cancer patients have filed suit, alleging the powder was contaminated with asbestos.

AHCA asked for “mental examinations” on a pair of 12-year-olds who are plaintiffs in a challenge to a state rule prohibiting Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care.

Philip Esformes was found guilty in 2019 in what federal prosecutors described at the time as the “largest health care fraud scheme charged by the U.S. Justice Department.”

The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for a mental health crisis among youth.

CVS would pay about $5 billion and Walgreens more than $5.5 billion, though neither company has admitted wrongdoing. States have until the end of the year to accept the terms of the settlement.

Jones was fired from the Department of Health in 2020. Under the deal, she admitted guilt and agreed to pay $200 per month toward $20,000 to cover the cost of the criminal investigation, attend mental health counseling and perform community service.

Trulieve laid off an unspecified number of workers over the past few weeks at facilities in North Florida, where its grow operations are based.

The attorney for Anthony Rojas filed the motion after a panel of the appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, ruled that an Alachua County circuit judge should have dismissed the case.

Juul Labs has reached settlements covering cases brought by about 10,000 plaintiffs related to its vaping products. Buffeted by lawsuits, Juul announced hundreds of layoffs last month.

The proposed case accuses Roche Laboratories and Genentech of intentionally misleading the federal government about mefloquine. The judge said the lawsuit should not be filed in California.