Spencer Fane LLP is merging with intellectual property boutique Global IP Counselors, the firms confirmed Friday.

A California law imposing fiduciary duties on pharmacy benefit managers intrudes on federally regulated health insurance plans, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association said in a lawsuit filed Friday.

A Michigan resident failed to convince a federal appeals court to deem cannabis licensing schemes that favor in-state applicants unlawful, establishing a circuit split over the role of the dormant Commerce Clause in state-legal marijuana markets.

CSX Transportation Inc. convinced the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals on Friday that the state used the wrong methodology to determine the proportion of its sales taxable there to calculate a $9 million commercial activity tax bill.

Hawaii’s environmental tax on cruise ships is on hold pending resolution of a Ninth Circuit appeal from a federal judge’s order allowing the state to collect the tax.

State regulators are abandoning a plan to rehabilitate PHL Variable Insurance Co. and may pursue liquidation instead, after finding that the struggling life insurer — acquired by private equity firm Golden Gate Capitala decade ago — is in worse shape than previously thought.