• Mylan Inc. v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Federal Government | Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Jordan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clint Carpenter, Arthur T. Catterall, United States Department of Justice Tax Division, Washington, DC; Emily J. Giometti, Cincinnati, OH; Lisa M. Rodriguez, Office of District Council, Internal Revenue Service, Newark, NJ; Mary H. Weber, Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel, Cincinnati, OH for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory G. Garre, Eric Konopka, Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC; Bryan M. Killian, William F. Nelson, James G. Steele, III, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Washington, DC for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-1193

    Legal expenses incurred by generic drug manufacturers to defend against patent infringement lawsuits were tax-deductible where they were ordinary and necessary business expenses as patent litigation was separate from the FDA approval process for ANDAs.

  • United States v. Vepuri

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Federal Government | Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Chagares
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-1562

    District court properly dismissed the portion of the indictment asserting defendants conspired to violate 21 U.S.C. §§331(d) and 355(a) in action over sourcing of an active ingredient for a drug from a facility not included in the Abbreviated New Drug Applications approvals and court found the drug at issue had the same composition and labeling as the drug for which an ANDA approval was effective and government could not rely on the premise that the two drugs were different and noted government's other argument had been rejected in We

  • United States v. United States Sugar Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Federal Government | Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Porter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan S. Kanter, Doha Mekki, Maggie Goodlander, David B. Lawrence, Daniel E. Haar, Nikolai G. Levin, Peter M. Bozzo, Brian Hanna, Jonathan Y. Mincer, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Washington, DC for plaintiff-appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa Arbus Sherry, Amanda P. Reeves, Lindsey S. Champlin, David L. Johnson, Charles S. Dameron, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC; Lawrence E. Buterman, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Christopher S. Yates, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA; Jack B. Blumenfeld, Brian P. Egan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Timothy G. Cameron, Peter T. Barbur, David R. Marriott, Daniel K. Zach, Michael K. Zaken, Lindsey J. Timlin, Hannah L. Dwyer, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY; Amanda L. Wait, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Washington, DC; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Peter J. Schwingler, Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Daniel K. Hogan, Hogan McDaniel, Wilmington, DE for defendant-appellees.

    Case Number: 22-2806

    Rather than employ the hypothetical monopolist test analysis for determining product market under Section 7 of the Clayton Act, the Third Circuit affirmed the District Court's analysis using the actual market for refined sugar as the product market definition.

  • Suleiman v. Cardona

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Colville
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2:22-cv-736

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's motion for declaratory relief and a court order declaring her correct birth date on her U.S. passport so she could comply with regulations pertaining to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and court dismissed her complaint without prejudice because court did not have subject matter jurisdiction. Motion granted.

  • Zier v. Kijakazi

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Carlson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1:22-CV-1902

    ALJ erred in denying plaintiff's application for disability benefits because ALJ stated the record did not contain evidence of nerve root compression but that finding was contradicted by ALJ's discussion of the medical record which included a 2017 MRI that showed evidence of nerve root compression. Remanded.

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  • Hoffman v. U.S. Customs & Border Prot.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Federal Government | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Brody
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-6427

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection failed to conduct adequate search where it merely made bare assertions that responsive records were not located on mobile devices and failed to use all responsive search terms when searching email inboxes. Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted in part, defendant's cross-motion denied.

  • Xi v. Haugen

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Krause
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Rudovsky, Jonathan H. Feinberg, Susan M. Lin Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Patrick Toomey, Ashley Gorski, Sarah Taitz, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Jonathan Hafetz, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ for appellants.
    for defendant: Leif Overvold, Brian M. Boynton, H. Thomas Byron III, Sharon Swingle, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC for appellees.

    Case Number: 21-2798

    "Clearly established" threshold inapplicable to discretionary function exception analysis under FTCA because the government lacked discretion to violate constitutional rights.

  • Ganoe v. Austin

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Kane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1:20-cv-00663

    Court awarded attorneys' fees to defendant where plaintiff did not meaningfully contest the reasonableness of defendant's counsel's hours worked or hourly billing rate. Defendant's motion for attorneys' fees granted.

  • Kocher v. McDonough

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge McHugh
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-3808

    Hostile work environment and disparate treatment claims failed due to the lack of severe or pervasive conduct or an adverse employment action, but negative performance reviews following EEOC charge that supervisor repeatedly referenced supported a plausible retaliation claim. Defendant's motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.

  • Xi v. Haugen

    Publication Date: 2023-06-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Krause
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-2798

    District court properly dismissed appellant's Bivens claims and his fifth amendment Federal Tort Claims Act claim but erred in dismissing appellant's fourth amendment FTCA claim, in action over his arrest for allegedly providing Chinese authorities with sensitive information about super conductor technology, because appellant's fourth and fifth amendment claims arose in a new context and implicated special factors involving national security but fourth amendment FTCA complaint listed discrete instances of agent's knowing provision of