BOSTON — Ruling that amici curiae who were denied intervention and were not parties to a case except as amici and had no standing to seek a stay, a Massachusetts federal judge on May 6 denied the motion of amici children’s advocacy group and others to stay the court’s grant of preliminary relief, which stayed a January U.S. Department of Health and Human Services memorandum announcing the reduction on the number of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11 and the appointment of 13 new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 6 denied Apple Inc.’s application to stay a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversal of its order staying a mandate regarding a contempt judgment against Apple over anticompetitive practices on its App Store in an antitrust dispute with Epic Games Inc.

RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia federal judge correctly concluded that the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) properly withheld draft decisions in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held, agreeing that the materials were “predecisional” and “deliberative” under the meaning of a FOIA exemption.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — No coverage is owed to an insured for remediation costs associated with contamination discovered at an insured shopping center because the policy’s exclusion for site development and construction activities clearly bars coverage, a Florida federal judge said May 6 in granting the insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Asbestos claimants in the new Chapter 11 case of talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals LLC filed three appeals, the most recent on May 5, of a New York federal bankruptcy judge’s approval of a global settlement among the debtor and its affiliates resolving intercompany claims by the affiliates in exchange for the transfer of certain assets to the debtor, including a manufacturing plant in Kentucky and a mine in Arizona.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 5 affirmed a California federal judge’s finding that mobile device technology patent claims asserted in an infringement suit against Google LLC were invalid as directed at the abstract concept of screening notifications without an additional inventive concept.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The plaintiffs representing a putative class of consumers who say they were misled into overpaying for Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone models based on Apple’s misrepresentations about the artificial intelligence capabilities that the iPhone 16’s “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would offer moved May 5 for preliminary approval of a $250 million settlement, with an estimated $70 million in attorney fees, to resolve their claims that Apple violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Contending that “Minnesota unilaterally claimed” a “regulatory authority” over greenhouse gas emissions “when it sued national energy producers in state court for alleged violations of state law,” the United States sued the state in federal court pursuant to the U.S. Constitution and the Clean Air Act (CAA) “to vindicate the supremacy of federal law in matters concerning the regulation of global greenhouse gas emissions and to redress its irreparable injuries.”