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  • February 10, 2009

    More Homebuilders Expected To Duck Into Ch. 11

    Approximately 30 percent of U.S. homebuilders are in financial distress and could soon be pushed into insolvency, according to a new report.

  • February 10, 2009

    Class Claims Cut From OT Suit Against Ameriprise

    A federal judge has struck class allegations from an independent financial adviser's proposed wage-and-hour class action against Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. and remanded the suit to the state court system in California.

  • February 10, 2009

    Broadcom Co-Founder Off Hook In Shareholder Suit

    Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III has won a bid to dismiss claims brought against him in a shareholder class action that accuses the company and several officers and directors of engaging in a scheme to backdate stock options that led to a decline in the company’s stock price.

  • February 10, 2009

    DC Circ. Rejects Verizon Petition Over 'Porting'

    An appellate court has found that the Federal Communications Commission was reasonable when it said Verizon Communications Inc. couldn't contact customers with price discounts when it had been alerted that they were going to switch service.

  • February 10, 2009

    Coke Bottler To Pay $8M To Settle Wastewater Case

    AMCAN Beverages Inc., a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Co., has agreed to pay $7.59 million to settle allegations that it violated wastewater discharge rules by dumping polluted water into the water treatment system of a California city.

  • February 10, 2009

    AXA, Sales Reps Near $6.5M Deal In OT Class Suit

    AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. has come a step closer to garnering preliminary approval for a $6.5 million settlement in a consolidated wage-and-hour collective and class action brought on behalf of current and former financial sales representatives, with a judge asking for more information on how the settlement fund would be divided.

  • February 10, 2009

    Time, Source Interlink Antitrust Fight Moves To NY

    An antitrust suit brought by the country’s largest single-copy magazine distributor, Source Interlink Distribution LLC, against a Time Inc. subsidiary has been transferred from California to a district court in New York at Time’s request, after a judge found the defendant’s choice of forum more appropriate for the case.

  • February 10, 2009

    Facebook, ConnectU Deal Worth $65M: Law Firm

    Facebook Inc. paid ConnectU LCC $65 million to settle litigation between the two social networking sites over alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP reportedly announced in its January newsletter.

  • February 10, 2009

    Judge Finalizes Rambus Ruling Over Shredded Docs

    Making way for an expected appeal by Rambus Inc., a Delaware federal court has issued a final decision that bans the company from enforcing 12 of its semiconductor patents against memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. after finding Rambus shredded documents about the patents.

  • July 1, 2009

    Federal Preemption Shifting, Not Dead: Experts

    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court case Wyeth v. Levine, President Barack Obama released a memo signaling a more cautious approach to federal preemption than that of the last Bush administration. But legal experts say Obama has merely given a nod to state sovereignty, not rung the death knell for federal preemption.

  • February 9, 2009

    USPTO Deals Setback To Funai TV Patent Suit

    One of two patents at the center of an infringement battle brought by Funai Corp. Inc. against Vizio Inc. and several other defendants was again rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in late January, Vizio said Friday.

  • May 5, 2009

    Top Motions In An IP Case And How To Win Them

    Winning a motion in an intellectual property case may not automatically end an infringement battle, but it can help determine the course of the case. Here's how to make it happen.

  • February 9, 2009

    Reinsurer NICO Off Hook Over $12M In Surety Bonds

    A federal appeals court has ruled that a California shopping center can't collect over $12 million in surety bonds from National Indemnity Co., which served as the reinsurance company for the surety bonds' issuer, because the shopping center did not have a contract directly with NICO.

  • February 10, 2009

    Berkshire Hathaway Cos. Hit With RICO Suit

    California Pharmacy Management LLC has launched a suit against a slew of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiaries, alleging the workers’ compensation carriers, intent on driving the plaintiff out of business, are refusing to pay for millions of dollars of valid prescriptions.

  • May 27, 2009

    Globalization Could Incite Global Forum Shopping

    Increased product globalization could lead to a rise in global forum shopping, and many attorneys believe foreign plaintiffs will continue eying the U.S. as the ultimate plaintiffs' venue.

  • April 29, 2009

    Energy Regulation Will Mirror Securities: Experts

    The rise in new kinds of energy production, energy infrastructure and energy derivatives, coupled with a growing concern about market manipulation, will likely cause energy market regulation in the U.S. to look increasingly like securities market regulation, experts say.

  • February 9, 2009

    Medtronic Stent Patent Claims Not Indefinite: Judge

    A federal judge has issued a summary judgment ruling largely in favor of Medtronic Inc. as the medical device maker prepares to go to trial against Abbott Laboratories in an ongoing infringement suit over two stent patents.

  • February 6, 2009

    Class Certified In RadioShack Mileage Suit

    A federal judge has granted class certification to a group of former RadioShack Corp. employees alleging that the electronics chain did not reimburse the employees for business trips they made using their personal vehicles.

  • February 6, 2009

    Judge Extends Stay In Cathode Tube Antitrust MDL

    Citing an ongoing criminal investigation, a federal judge has extended a stay in the antitrust multidistrict litigation against several major electronics manufacturers — including LG Electronics Inc., Panasonic Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. — for allegedly engaging in a scheme to fix the prices of cathode ray tubes used in televisions and computer monitors.

  • February 6, 2009

    Judge In DRAM Action Settles Spat Over Crowell

    A judge overseeing antitrust action against a group of dynamic random access memory chip makers has refused a request by defendant Infineon Technologies AG to hold the plaintiffs to account for failing to comply with a court order disqualifying Crowell & Moring LLP from the case.