http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: General Electric Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132909 The U.S. Senate has confirmed Ignacia S. Moreno, former counsel of corporate environmental programs at General Electric Co., as the assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division. http://www.law360.com/articles/132909 http://www.law360.com/articles/131683 A group of cable television subscribers is appealing the dismissal of a putative antitrust class action against a slew of major television programmers and cable providers — including NBC Universal Inc. and Comcast Corp. — that alleged the companies bundled programming and overcharged customers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131683 http://www.law360.com/articles/131290 A federal judge has refused to reverse an earlier decision that General Electric Co. arranged for waste disposal in New Hampshire in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on arranger liability, which GE had argued should absolve it of liability in the U.S. government's $9 million cleanup of the disposal site. http://www.law360.com/articles/131290 http://www.law360.com/articles/129823 General Electric Co. is reportedly calling for a multilateral trade agreement that would facilitate trade in environmental goods and services, saying such a deal is crucial to combat global warming. http://www.law360.com/articles/129823 http://www.law360.com/articles/129880 In a split decision, Pennsylvania's high court has ruled that two individuals who sued over asbestos-related increased risk of cancer claims and settled with several companies in 1993 can go forward with lawsuits against a new defendant for claims arising out of the actual cancer diagnosis. http://www.law360.com/articles/129880 http://www.law360.com/articles/129580 Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP has announced plans to hold a $200 million initial public offering for gun and ammunition maker Freedom Group Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/129580 http://www.law360.com/articles/129384 Airbus SAS and several suppliers have been hit with a lawsuit by the relatives of eight victims of Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board. http://www.law360.com/articles/129384 http://www.law360.com/articles/128892 With counterfeit imports costing businesses as much as $1 trillion each year and regulatory uncertainty slowing cross-border traffic, a panel of trade authorities has urged the U.S. Senate Finance Committee to give U.S. customs agents new tools to promote trade facilitation and enforcement. http://www.law360.com/articles/128892 http://www.law360.com/articles/128999 General Electric Co. and SonoSite Inc. have worked out a $21 million settlement and a royalty deal in their dispute over a SonoSite patent for lightweight ultrasound machines, resolving litigation in Wisconsin and Germany, as well as a federal appeals court. http://www.law360.com/articles/128999 http://www.law360.com/articles/127701 A judge has dismissed two claims from a lawsuit filed by CSX Transportation Inc. seeking to put General Electric Co. on the hook for liability costs in connection with a freight train derailment. http://www.law360.com/articles/127701 http://www.law360.com/articles/127773 More than 40 plaintiffs have agreed to dismiss their claims against Honeywell International Inc. and Nitro Industrial Coverings Inc. in multidistrict litigation accusing hundreds of companies of exposing consumers to products that allegedly caused their asbestos-related personal injuries. http://www.law360.com/articles/127773 http://www.law360.com/articles/127509 An appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a massive wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a deadly 2005 West Caribbean Airways SA flight that crashed in Venezuela and killed all 160 people aboard. http://www.law360.com/articles/127509 http://www.law360.com/articles/126458 King & Spalding LLP’s Austin, Texas, office has welcomed partners Geoffrey Unger and Juan Alcala, who together specialize in product liability, employment and securities litigation, to the firm’s business litigation practice from DLA Piper. http://www.law360.com/articles/126458 http://www.law360.com/articles/126923 General Electric Co. and SonoSite Inc. are working toward a deal to end GE’s declaratory judgment action alleging its ultrasound technology does not infringe SonoSite’s patent covering lightweight ultrasound machines. http://www.law360.com/articles/126923 http://www.law360.com/articles/126092 A federal judge has found that Clean Air Act claims brought by the Sierra Club and other groups over a nearly 30-year-old coal-fired power plant in Oregon aren't barred by the federal five-year statute of limitations, mostly denying Portland General Electric Co.'s bid for summary judgment. http://www.law360.com/articles/126092 http://www.law360.com/articles/126362 Bankrupt supermarket chain Bi-Lo LLC is in talks with Delhaize Group to sell the majority of its assets to the Belgian food retail giant for $425 million in cash, according to a Monday bankruptcy court filing. http://www.law360.com/articles/126362 http://www.law360.com/articles/126337 Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are calling on the U.S. International Trade Commission to settle a disagreement between an ITC administrative law judge and an investigative attorney over whether wind turbine parts imported by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. infringe General Electric Co.-owned patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/126337 http://www.law360.com/articles/125626 Firearm maker Griffin & Howe Inc. has agreed to pay a $67,000 penalty to settle allegations that it shipped classified firearms and related devices to Zambia, Canada and Chile without the required licenses in violation of federal export control regulations. http://www.law360.com/articles/125626 http://www.law360.com/articles/125170 The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security has ordered two weapons part makers, including a former subsidiary of General Electric Co., to pay civil penalties for exporting parts in violation of the Export Administration Regulations. http://www.law360.com/articles/125170 http://www.law360.com/articles/125112 A judge has granted summary judgment in a Fair Labor Standards Act class action filed against a delivery and installation service provider for General Electric Co. appliances, saying an exemption for interstate truckers applies to the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/125112