A 7th Circuit panel has reversed the dismissal of an antitrust class action against Northshore University Health System. The ruling, which allows the plaintiffs to pursue their claim that Northshore illegally inflated its rates after a merger, should help other class actions get past the certification stage.

A New York appeals panel has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former employee of a health management company who alleged he was fired because he is white, finding that the plaintiff had failed to rebut the company’s evidence that he was terminated for drinking and sleeping on the job.

Federal prosecutors have indicted the woman at the heart of the San Francisco crime lab scandal that prompted the dismissal of hundreds of Superior Court cases.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a false claims complaint against Sallie Mae, saying the suit too closely mirrors a similar complaint filed in a federal trial court in another state. The case tested the scope of the False Claims Act’s “first-to-file” rule.

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