U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officials are grappling with a Federal Circuit ruling that the agency’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges were unconstitutionally appointed, but still aren’t publicly discussing how they’ll respond.

The University of Chicago Medical Center is trying to get claims of selling patient data to Alphabet Inc.'s Google in violation of privacy laws dismissed by alleging the plaintiff’s attorney has a conflict of interest as an investor in another analytics company, according to an Illinois state court filing.

West Virginia communities are pushing back against state attorneys general who have sought to negotiate a global settlement in federal opioid litigation that would largely cut out the state widely known as ground zero of the crisis.

Dollar Tree received a warning letter from U.S. regulators for buying over-the-counter drugs from foreign manufacturers that were made in such substandard conditions that they had been barred from entry to the U.S.

White House lawyer Steven Menashi was confirmed Nov. 14 to the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, giving that court a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents.

Galena Biopharma Inc. defeated securities fraud claims tied to overprescription of its fentanyl tablets, but the federal judge in New Jersey gave the proposed class of investors 30 days to file a better-supported complaint.