The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday resurrected a qui tam lawsuit filed by a California-based health care provider against multiple pharmaceutical companies seeking damages allegedly due to the state and federal governments for what the plaintiff claims was a scheme to fraudulently overcharge for drugs to recoup inflated prices from entitlement systems while utilizing a program designed to keep charges down for low-income patients.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a purported oral or implied joint venture agreement must be in writing in order to be enforced if the contractual terms cannot be performed within one year from its asserted inception.

This regulatory plan establishes enforceable water quality standards—such as flow requirements—to protect beneficial uses of water (including municipal, agriculture, and fish and wildlife) in the Bay‑Delta and the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries. These waterbodies are an important source of drinking and agricultural water around the state.

Anyone who has been convicted of domestic violence can be permanently prohibited from possessing guns or ammunition under U.S. law, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.