Patients with hypertension appear to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus, said a top Chinese intensive care doctor who’s been treating critically ill patients since mid-January.

A long-running battle between the Trump administration and federal unions over telework eligibility and recent efforts to scale back telework at several agencies could be hurting the government’s ability to gear up for coronavirus contingencies.

Former Ropes & Gray partner John Ertman, who has experience in representing the investment management industry, is launching a new litigation firm, Ertman, Dulis & Helisek, to work with mutual funds, private equity funds, and hedge funds as well as asset managers and investors.

A jury correctly found that the opening guitar riff in Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” doesn’t infringe another band’s copyright, the Ninth Circuit affirmed.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider whether a city ordinance in Washington state that forced “bikini baristas” to cover up violated their constitutional rights.

Health insurers are pressuring high-priced medical specialists to slash the rates they charge or be dropped from their networks of providers. Their targets include large staffing companies that provide sensitive services such as neonatalogy and high-risk obstetrics.