RICHMOND, Va. — An employee who settled individual wage-and-hour claims following decertification of a collective action and two classes lacks standing to appeal that decertification decision, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

SEATTLE — A case that is part of a wave of putative class actions challenging a common use of forfeited nonvested matching retirement contributions would settle for an estimated $42,724,532 under a deal to which a Washington federal judge granted preliminary approval on June 4 after a hearing.

BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge denied dismissal of states’ suit against President Donald J. Trump, former U.S. Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) bringing claims under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and challenging the DOJ’s interpretation and use of the False Claims Act (FCA) and other federal laws in connection with Executive Order (EO) 14187, “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” and related memorandums issued by the DOJ to deny gender-affirming care, finding in part that the plaintiffs have standing because the memos conflict with states’ laws to regulate medicine and to protect adolescents’ access to gender-affirming care.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on June 4 ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek equitable disgorgement under federal securities laws without showing that investors suffered pecuniary harm, saying that traditional equitable principles associated with disgorgement do not require a showing of pecuniary loss “before an investor qualifies as a victim of an offender’s wrongdoing entitled to compensation.”

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court panel held June 3 that an entity that purchases accounts receivable lacks standing to sue a homeowners insurer to recover payment for services related to the insured’s property damage to his home, reversing a lower court’s denial of the insurer’s motion for summary judgment and remanding for the lower court to enter judgment in favor of the insurer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on June 4 held that a biopharmaceutical company failed to plausibly allege that a bioequivalent maker actively induced patent infringement after considering arguments on the standard of induced infringement in medical patent cases, including ones with “skinny label” generic versions.  The high court determined that the patent owner relied on vague language and speculation to attempt to show that the bioequivalent maker induced infringement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an 8-1 ruling issued June 4 by the U.S. Supreme Court in consolidated cases in which Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. asserted constitutional challenges to the Federal Communications Commission’s enforcement of monetary forfeitures under the Communications Act, a majority held that the FCC’s forfeiture orders do not violate the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because the forfeiture proceedings do not resolve the parties’ legal obligations.

ATLANTA — In a matter of first impression, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held that a late rapper who was a member of hip-hop group 2 Live Crew lost ownership of copyright interests in the group’s earliest recordings to his bankruptcy estate upon declaring bankruptcy, reversing a Florida federal judge’s finding that the rapper maintained copyright interests.