http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Farella Braun Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/133211 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take on Every Penny Counts Inc.'s appeal of a claims construction ruling that the company claimed misapplied the high court's 1996 ruling in Markman v. Westview Instruments. http://www.law360.com/articles/133211 http://www.law360.com/articles/131994 The plaintiffs and several defendants in derivative litigation over an alleged $2.2 billion stock options backdating scheme at semiconductor maker Broadcom Corp. have asked a federal judge for final approval of a partial settlement deal under which the company would collect $118 million from insurers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131994 http://www.law360.com/articles/121035 Panels should allow more time for oral argument and provide the parties with a list of questions for the argument so the lawyers can focus their comments on the things in which the court is most interested, says Kelly Woodruff, a complex commercial litigation partner and a member of the appellate litigation group at Farella Braun & Martel LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/121035 http://www.law360.com/articles/128176 San Francisco-based law firm Farella Braun & Martel LLP has hired bankruptcy expert Gary M. Kaplan, formerly of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC. http://www.law360.com/articles/128176 http://www.law360.com/articles/128280 Tone Grant, disgraced former president of the defunct commodities trading firm Refco Inc., has been let out of a lawsuit by insurer XL Specialty Insurance Co. after agreeing not to seek coverage for defense costs under his policy. http://www.law360.com/articles/128280 http://www.law360.com/articles/126283 A San Francisco federal court has granted a preliminary injunction barring German semiconductor company Infineon Technologies AG and its subsidiaries from marketing and selling voltage regulator products that allegedly infringe two of Volterra Semiconductor Corp.'s patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/126283 http://www.law360.com/articles/123637 A federal judge has approved a deal requiring Chevron Corp. to pay $315,000 to end a suit filed by developers over cleanup of land that the oil giant's predecessor leased more than 40 years ago to the city of Antioch, Calif. http://www.law360.com/articles/123637 http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 Sonic Solutions has become the latest in a string of defendants to settle with Actus LLC, a patent-holding company that accused nearly two dozen entities of infringing four patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 http://www.law360.com/articles/120151 A federal judge has ruled in favor of a motion to reject a collective bargaining agreement between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union and the city of Vallejo, which is in Chapter 9 bankruptcy proceedings. http://www.law360.com/articles/120151 http://www.law360.com/articles/119842 Broadcom Corp. is set to recover $118 million from a slew of insurers as part of a proposed partial settlement of a derivative suit over the semiconductor maker's alleged $2.2 billion stock options backdating scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/119842 http://www.law360.com/articles/113162 Finding that the owners of a defunct shooting range have not demonstrated a reliable basis for claimed cleanup costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, a federal appeals court has vacated an order of summary judgment in favor of the former property owners and remanded the case to the district court with instructions to dismiss. http://www.law360.com/articles/113162 http://www.law360.com/articles/111270 The court’s holding in Yarway Corp. v. Admiral Ins. Co. supports an argument by insureds that, absent clear language to the contrary, insurance policies should be viewed as a snapshot at the time the insured is seeking coverage, when carriers assert “other insurance” clauses in an effort to avoid coverage, say Dennis M. Cusack and Amanda Hairston of Farella Braun & Martel LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/111270 http://www.law360.com/articles/110152 Discounting claims that General Motors Corp.'s restructuring endangers the benefits of nonunion retirees, a bankruptcy judge has refused to appoint an official committee to represent more than 122,000 salaried retirees and surviving spouses. http://www.law360.com/articles/110152 http://www.law360.com/articles/108716 A judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Dell Inc. of fraudulently marketing an ink-jet printer feature to dupe customers into replacing ink cartridges that don't need to be replaced. http://www.law360.com/articles/108716 http://www.law360.com/articles/108820 An appellate panel has rejected a bid by two labor unions to overturn a ruling that the city of Vallejo, Calif., was eligible to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, a development that comes as the city and the unions are in court-mandated settlement talks aimed at resolving Vallejo's motion to void its labor agreements with the two groups. http://www.law360.com/articles/108820 http://www.law360.com/articles/104852 The case of Monex Deposit Co. v. Gilliam begins to fill in a gap that California decisions have acknowledged in the debate over whether the court or the arbitrator should decide if an arbitration agreement is valid and enforceable, say Neil A. Goteiner, Frank J. Riebli and Scott Andrews of Farella Braun & Martel LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/104852 http://www.law360.com/articles/104471 The General Motors Retirees Association has asked a court to appoint an official committee to represent the interests of over 122,000 salaried retirees and surviving spouses, who are allegedly at risk of losing critical benefits during General Motors Corp.'s Chapter 11 case. http://www.law360.com/articles/104471 http://www.law360.com/articles/104404 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended the former chief financial officer of Mercury Interactive LLC from practicing as an accountant, part of a $2.7 million deal over an alleged stock options backdating scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/104404 http://www.law360.com/articles/104297 Nvidia Corp. wants to fight one battle at a time, the chip maker has said in motions that seek to halt an insurer's case against it until it resolves a suit with consumers over allegedly defective graphics cards. http://www.law360.com/articles/104297 http://www.law360.com/articles/99375 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a claims construction that led a Florida company to drop two suits alleging that gift cards sold by American Express Co., MasterCard Inc., Visa USA Inc. and others infringed two of its patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/99375