California Employment News: California Wage Compliance – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
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Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 514: Listen and Learn -- Discovery (Civ Pro)
A Counterintuitive Approach to Winning Without Litigation: One-on-One with Haley Morrison
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California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 511: Listen and Learn -- Landlord/Tenant Law (Part 1)
From Permits to Penalties: A Deep Dive Into Coastal Development Law
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(Podcast) California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 314: Listen and Learn -- False Imprisonment and Shopkeeper’s Privilege (Torts)
(Podcast) California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
Feeling the Heat: Strategies to Keep Cool Under California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The JustPod: Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing: A Discussion with Hillary Blout
California is rolling out two climate disclosure laws—SB 253 and SB 261—that will soon require major companies that operate in California to publicly report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related financial...more
Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and...more
Branded drug manufacturers, including Eli Lilly and Company (Eli Lilly), have been pursuing various legal actions against compounding pharmacies and telehealth companies that provide compounded diabetes and weight-loss drugs,...more
On April 18, 2025, Judge André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action asserting claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more
Drug manufacturer Eli Lilly has filed suit against four companies involved in making, prescribing, and/or selling compounded versions of its weight loss and diabetes drugs ZEPBOUND® and MOUNJARO®....more
California legislators recently introduced AB 1460, which would prohibit prescription drug manufacturers from engaging in discriminatory practices aimed at providers participating in the 340B drug pricing program (covered...more
As state legislatures introduce legislation expanding the reach of their antitrust laws and state attorneys general ramp up their use of antitrust investigations and litigation, the legal landscape continues to become more...more
On 15 January 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will revoke the color additive authorization for use of FD&C Red No. 3 in food (including dietary supplements) and ingestible drugs. This ban...more
Proposition 34 requires certain California healthcare providers to spend at least 98% of their net drug sale revenue on direct patient care. The measure targets certain providers who benefit from a federal drug discount...more
California is poised to pass a ballot measure aimed at imposing 340B spending restrictions for certain healthcare entities participating in the 340B Program who have historically engaged in spending that is not directly...more
On this fourth episode of Ropes & Gray’s Health Care Transaction Laws Unwrapped podcast series, health care attorneys Ranee Adipat, Jenn Romig and Jaclyn Freshman discuss the latest updates to state health care transaction...more
Pharmacies, wholesalers, third-party logistics providers, outsourcing facilities, clinics, and pharmacists must obtain the California State Board of Pharmacy’s (the “Board”) approval or otherwise notify the Board about...more
On January 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 853 (AB 853) went into effect in California. It requires parties to a transaction involving retail grocery firms or retail drug firms to file a notice with the California attorney general 180...more
On October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 786 (SB 786) into law, prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from discriminating against covered entities participating in the 340B Program....more
On October 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1286 into law. The new law, sponsored by Assemblymember Matt Haney and the California Board of Pharmacy, aims to reduce medication errors and...more
On September 25, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Biora Therapeutics, Inc. (Biora) regarding misleading claims the company made concerning the cost of its genetic testing services. Under...more
In Nexus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Central Admixture Pharmacy Services, Inc., 48 F.4th 1040, 1041 (9th Cir. 2022), the Ninth Circuit recently held that the implied preemption doctrine barred state law claims because they were...more
In February 2022, the US District Court for the Eastern District of California held that California Assembly Bill 824—which established a first-of-its kind presumption that certain pharmaceutical patent settlements are...more
Although this blog focuses mainly on the federal False Claims Act (FCA), other antifraud statutes feature in the qui tam relator and government enforcement toolkit. Key among them: the California Insurance Frauds Prevention...more
Retail chain pharmacies should be aware of California’s recent passage of SB 362, signed into law by Governor Gavin Newson late last month, and the potential impact of the law on how chains evaluate their pharmacy staff and...more
Starting next summer, California licensed pharmacies offering automatic prescription refill programs will be subject to new constraints and limitations. California recently approved new Board of Pharmacy regulations, which go...more
Although President Trump has made California a favored object of scorn, the Golden State has put itself on a path to help patients better rein in Big Pharma price gouging on prescription drugs in a way that Washington hasn’t....more
Applying basic scientific principles to exclude an expert’s unfounded and unsupported opinions, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted summary judgment to the maker of the antipsychotic...more