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Novartis subsidiary Sandoz Inc. ripped off a drug invented by Duke University researchers and licensed to drug company Allergan knowing that the school's patent for the drug would be approved, Duke and Allergan told a federal jury in Colorado on Monday.

A Tenth Circuit panel on Thursday questioned whether coverage for communicable diseases in a casino operator's insurance policy could allow it to make broader claims for business interruption losses due to COVID-19, with judges pressing both sides on how to make meaning of the policy language.

A rush to invest in cannabis in early 2019 put pressure on the head of a Colorado cannabis company to rely on the false claims of a businessman who claimed he could quickly raise more than $50 million from friendly investors but didn't deliver, causing the company to miss out on valuable deals, the company told jurors in state court Monday.

A former executive for 3Red Trading can't get a whistleblower award for helping the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission pursue spoofing claims against his ex-employer, a Seventh Circuit panel concluded Wednesday, noting that the agency sent him a document preservation request and several subpoenas before he submitted the information.

Microsoft has asked a federal judge in Illinois to send biometric privacy claims about facial recognition technology used in Uber's driver verification process to arbitration, arguing that the agreement drivers signed when they became Uber drivers also applies to their claims against the tech giant.

A municipal sales tax on cigarettes bars the city of Aurora, Colorado, from participating in a state cigarette tax revenue sharing program, a panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, concluding that allowing cities to tax cigarettes and still get a cut from the state was not what lawmakers intended.

A Colorado federal magistrate judge on Tuesday said in a recommendation that New York officials should consider investigating a Northwestern University law professor for his "shameful" misconduct related to his involvement in a yearslong probate dispute with his sister.

A Denver attorney with hearing loss who was booted from a jury pool can pursue his disability discrimination lawsuit against the Denver County Court, a state court judge has ruled, concluding that the doctrine of judicial immunity doesn't prevent his claims for injunctive and declaratory relief.

A Colorado casino has accused a construction contractor in state court of performing defective and substandard work on a roughly quarter-billion-dollar expansion and renovation project, the latest turn in a yearslong legal battle between the companies.

A trio of voting rights organizations can advance their suit accusing 2020 election deniers of illegal voter intimidation, a Colorado federal judge has ruled, finding that the organizations can sue the individual election deniers under the Voting Rights Act but not the group they belong to.