Dorsey & Whitney

1. Solvay Settles Estratest False Marketing Suit For $16M

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010

A federal judge has granted final approval to a $16.5 million class action settlement that will end a lawsuit accusing Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. of falsely marketing menopause-treating drugs as if they had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

2. Free Speech Defense Nixed In Hot Fuel MDL

Friday, Mar 05, 2010

The federal judge overseeing a multidistrict litigation alleging a gasoline industry hot fuel conspiracy has ordered industry groups to fork over internal lobbying records, shooting down the defendants' argument that the First Amendment protects such activities.

3. 8th Circ. Upholds Another Dismissal In Baycol MDL

Thursday, Mar 04, 2010

A federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a suit in the multidistrict product liability litigation over Bayer Corp.'s cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol.

4. AT&T Settles Navigation Patent Dispute With Airbiquity

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

AT&T Inc. has settled its infringement suit against wireless communications company Airbiquity Inc. over patents related to vehicle navigation, less than a year after having settled a separate patent infringement suit brought by Airbiquity.

5. No Malpractice Claim In Suit Over Dorsey's $4M Bill

Monday, Feb 22, 2010

A Delaware court has denied a request by several former clients of Dorsey & Whitney LLP to add legal malpractice claims and allegations against a firm partner to a suit over what the ex-clients contend was an “excessive” $4 million bill.

6. SCO Slander Claim Slimmed In Unix Rights Suit

Monday, Feb 01, 2010

In an ongoing dispute over the ownership of the copyright for the Unix source code, a federal judge has slimmed The SCO Group Inc.’s claim for slander of title and denied computer infrastructure company Novell Inc.’s request to set aside a judgment that Novell was not entitled to certain license-related royalties.

7. An Endangered Species: Physician-Owned Hospitals

Thursday, Jan 28, 2010

There have been approximately a dozen attempts, in one form or another, to pass legislation banning or restricting physician-owned hospitals, including a moratorium on building new physician-owned hospitals that expired in 2006. Thus, even without health care reform, physician ownership of hospitals will remain a target of lawmakers and regulators, says Eric M. Peterson of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

8. In-House Counsel Name Favorite Corporate, M&A Attys

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010

In-house counsel love the corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyers who know their clients' businesses as well as they know the ins and outs of deal-making.

9. SRAM Direct Purchasers Reach $25M In Settlements

Friday, Jan 22, 2010

Micron Technology Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., NEC Electronics and several other defendants in the ongoing static random access memory multidistrict litigation have agreed to settle the direct purchasers' price-fixing claims against them for a combined $25 million.

10. National Arbitration Forum Kept In Cardholder Suit

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

A federal judge has rejected the National Arbitration Forum's bid to dismiss a suit claiming it conspired to help financial companies controlling some 86 percent of the U.S. credit card market to maintain mandatory arbitration clauses as a condition of card use.

11. 9th Circ. Revives Charter Workers' Class Status Bid

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated a judgment denying class certification to former employees of Charter Communications LLC, finding that the lead plaintiff’s decision to settle his personal wrongful termination claims with the company did not render class certification moot.

12. Toshiba Exits PACid’s Encryption Patent Suit

Friday, Jan 08, 2010

Toshiba Corp. has resolved claims brought against it by The PACid Group LLC in a suit that has rounded up a series of technology companies for allegedly infringing PACid's data encryption patents.

13. 8th Circ. Denies W. Va. Baycol Plaintiffs Bid To Refile

Tuesday, Jan 05, 2010

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a decision by the judge in the multidistrict litigation over cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol to enjoin plaintiffs from filing class actions against drug manufacturer Bayer Corp. in West Virginia courts since a similar action filed there was recently dismissed.

14. GE Capital Wins $18M In Aircraft Loan Spat

Monday, Dec 21, 2009

A federal judge has ruled that a Minnesota businessman who runs a real estate and aircraft holding company owes about $18 million to General Electric Capital Corp. for defaulting on loans related to two private jets.

15. Qwest's Bid To Decertify FLSA Class Shot Down

Thursday, Dec 17, 2009

A federal judge has denied a request by Qwest Communications International Inc. to decertify a class of the company's call center employees who allege that they have not been paid for time spent booting up and shutting down their computers at the beginning and end of the day.

16. Is BAE Systems Too Big To Fail?

Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009

Regardless of whether a prosecution takes place under U.K. legislation or under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, because of the size and importance of BAE Systems to the British economy and because of the size of other recent sanctions, any prosecution could have a substantial effect on the British economy and perhaps even national security, say Kent J. Schmidt and Bryan McGarry of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

17. Preparing For And Reacting To A Recall

Friday, Dec 11, 2009

Not only will an Enterprise Risk Management plan prepare your company for the unexpected, but the initial ERM investment will potentially save it from the skyrocketing costs of litigation that might come with a product recall, say Mark R. Kaster and Alene R. Grossman of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

18. Law360 Ranks Largest IP Practices

Friday, Dec 04, 2009

Finnegan Henderson LLP, Fish & Richardson and Morrison & Foerster LLP topped the Law360 IP 100 this year, boasting the largest intellectual property practices in the United States, as measured by the number of practicing lawyers.

19. Law360 Ranks Largest Employment Practices

Friday, Dec 04, 2009

Littler Mendelson PC, Jackson Lewis LLP and Ogletree Deakins PC topped the Law360 Employment 100 this year, boasting the largest employment practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers.

20. Law360 Ranks Largest Insurance Practices

Friday, Dec 04, 2009

Marshall Dennehey, Clausen Miller PC and Cozen O'Connor topped the Law360 Insurance 100 this year, boasting the largest insurance practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers.