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  • July 8, 2008

    Judge OKs Tech Co.'s $7.6M FLSA Settlement

    A federal court has approved a $7.6 million deal that settles class action claims against electronic design automation company Cadence Design Systems Inc. over alleged wage-and-hour and pension plan violations.

  • July 8, 2008

    Discrimination Case Against EEOC Dismissed

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently found itself as the defendant in an employment discrimination lawsuit, but not for long. On Thursday, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a 2007 lawsuit that had alleged discrimination in the commission's San Francisco office.

  • July 8, 2008

    Class Gripes Put $16M Morgan Stanley Deal On Ice

    A California federal judge has refused final approval of a $16 million class action settlement that would have ended claims that Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. steered accounts away from black and Hispanic financial advisers.

  • July 8, 2008

    Chains Sue Over San Francisco's Nutrition Label Law

    The battle over ordinances requiring chain restaurants to display nutritional information about their food, which played out in New York this spring, has shifted venues to the West Coast, with a lawsuit by the California Restaurant Association challenging similar rules in San Francisco.

  • July 8, 2008

    Judge Denies BoNY's $170M Claim On Palco

    A federal judge has denied a motion by the Bank of New York, acting as trustee for a group of noteholders, for an approximately $170 million administrative claim on the estate of Pacific Lumber Co., but allowed the noteholders to get an extra $3.6 million under Pacific Lumber's Chapter 11 plan.

  • July 8, 2008

    California Blue Cross To Pay $11.8M Settlement

    California's oldest health care company has reached an $11.8 million settlement in a class action filed by the state's hospitals and physicians alleging that the company illegally rescinded patients' policies to avoid paying their medical bills.

  • July 7, 2008

    GPU Plaintiffs Provide Incriminating E-Mail

    Direct purchasers of graphics processing unit chips started off on the right foot last week at a class certification hearing for their multidistrict antitrust action by reportedly presenting an e-mail providing evidence of price-fixing between GPU competitors Nvidia Corp. and an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. unit.

  • July 8, 2008

    Judge Won't Reconsider Ruling In Broadcom Case

    A magistrate judge on Monday batted down Broadcom Corp.'s motion for reconsideration of a previous ruling regarding the court's jurisdiction in the cell phone technology giant's video phone patent infringement dispute with Qualcomm Inc.

  • July 7, 2008

    Sony Hit With Class Action Over Defective Laptops

    Sony Electronics Inc. moved Wednesday to have a potential class action over its Vaio PCG laptops transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California from California state court.

  • July 7, 2008

    Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft Vie Over $1.5B Verdict

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments Monday in the patent infringement dispute between software rivals Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft Corp.

  • July 7, 2008

    Prime Countrywide Merger Suit Moves Toward Deal

    Countrywide Financial Corp. appeared one step closer to fending off a shareholder challenge to Bank of America Corp.'s proposed $4.1 billion purchase as a Delaware judge tentatively approved a class action settlement concerning the merger over the objections of the plaintiffs in a separate securities suit against the troubled lender.

  • July 3, 2008

    In BLM Reversal, Solar Projects To See Light Of Day

    The Bureau of Land Management will continue to accept new applications for solar projects on public lands while it studies the environmental impact of such projects, the agency announced Wednesday.

  • July 3, 2008

    L.A. Asks For Federal Review Of Living Wage Rule

    The city of Los Angeles asked a federal court on Thursday to hear a lawsuit filed Tuesday attempting to block a city ordinance requiring hotel operators near the airport to pay their employees a living wage.

  • July 3, 2008

    En Pointe, Softchoice Battle Over Sales Reps

    IT company En Pointe Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit in a California district court, accusing competitor Softchoice Corporation of using anti-competitive policies in its employment contracts.

  • July 7, 2008

    Ninth Circuit Allows GE Unit To Seek Default Interest

    A federal appeals court has found that a bankruptcy court applied the wrong rule when it concluded that a bankrupt disk replication firm did not have to pay default interest and attorneys’ fees to a General Electric Co. finance unit.

  • July 3, 2008

    9th Circ. To Review Ousted DRAM Plaintiffs' Case

    A federal appeals court will review a district judge's decision to dismiss the claims of indirect-purchaser plaintiffs in antitrust litigation against manufacturers of dynamic random access memory.

  • July 2, 2008

    LAX Hilton Seeks To Stop Living Wage Ordinance

    A Los Angeles hotel filed suit in the city's Superior Court late Tuesday to block a city ordinance requiring hotel operators near the airport to pay their employees a “living wage.”

  • July 2, 2008

    IBM Sales Director Accused Of Stealing Trade Secrets

    A former IBM employee is facing felony charges for theft of trade secrets in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

  • July 2, 2008

    Colorado Takes Another $20.5M in Superfund Case

    The last of seven lawsuits about natural resources damage brought by the state of Colorado in 1983 has been settled for $20.5 million, according to the state attorney general's office.

  • July 2, 2008

    UnitedHealth To Settle Options Battles For $912M

    Minneapolis-based managed health care company UnitedHealth Group announced Wednesday that it has reached proposed settlement agreements in two lawsuits relating to its stock options practices.