http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Gibson Dunn Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132767 Employers with managerial offices in the District of Columbia with the authority to make, recommend or approve decisions affecting workers outside the district should take note of a remarkable expansion of the District of Columbia Human Rights Act by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Monteilh v. AFSCME, AFL-CIO, say Jason C. Schwartz and Daniel J. Davis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/132767 http://www.law360.com/articles/132148 A group of Hewlett-Packard Co. pension fund investors who claimed the company's board of directors erred in handing former CEO Carly Fiorina a severance package worth more than $21 million lost an appeal of the dismissal of the suit on Tuesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/132148 http://www.law360.com/articles/132009 Pharmaceutical and medical device company Allergan Inc. has fired back in Ocular Research of Boston Inc.'s patent infringement suit over a dry eye treatment, saying the ophthalmic research center's patent should be declared invalid for inequitable conduct before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. http://www.law360.com/articles/132009 http://www.law360.com/articles/131986 California coffee powerhouse Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. has sealed a $213 million cash-and-stock deal to acquire Diedrich Coffee Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131986 http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to review parts of an administrative law judge's initial determination that Acer Inc. and a host of other dynamic random access memory manufacturers did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 http://www.law360.com/articles/131460 Tyco Health Care Group LP has received another boost in its battle with Masimo Corp. over alleged market manipulation of pulse oximetry products, with an appeals court affirming an order vacating a jury’s findings of liability as to the health care conglomerate’s bundling agreements. http://www.law360.com/articles/131460 http://www.law360.com/articles/130938 Shareholders who accused Washington Mutual Inc. of a massive home lending fraud have weathered an effort to get their case thrown out. http://www.law360.com/articles/130938 http://www.law360.com/articles/123725 This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is taking on a host of major criminal cases, including litigation that focuses on the scope of a statute that has been instrumental for the government in bringing corporate fraud and public corruption suits and another case that questions whether individuals considered to be sexually dangerous can be detained after serving their prison sentences. http://www.law360.com/articles/123725 http://www.law360.com/articles/130513 Intellectual property expert Grant Kinsel has left Foley & Lardner LLP to join the Los Angeles office of international law firm Perkins Coie LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130513 http://www.law360.com/articles/130410 Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. has beseeched a bankruptcy judge to enforce an insurance policy pollution exclusion it says protects it from liability for claims over formaldehyde levels in emergency housing provided to hurricane victims. http://www.law360.com/articles/130410 http://www.law360.com/articles/130013 A group of current and former assistant branch rental managers for Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. Inc. are seeking conditional certification for a proposed collective action accusing the company of failing to pay them overtime. http://www.law360.com/articles/130013 http://www.law360.com/articles/129535 EnCana Corp. has settled a long-running antitrust suit brought by E&J Gallo Winery alleging the Canadian energy giant conspired with other industry players to drive up the price of natural gas. http://www.law360.com/articles/129535 http://www.law360.com/articles/129554 A federal judge has ruled that a $97.4 million judgment a Nicaraguan court issued against Dole Food Co. cannot be enforced, marking a decisive victory for the world’s biggest fresh fruit and vegetables producer in a years-long saga over alleged injuries banana farmers suffered because of pesticides. http://www.law360.com/articles/129554 http://www.law360.com/articles/123089 Insurers are increasingly eying one another with interest as conditions ripen in that sector for more strategic deals, and attorneys who have handled those mergers have some tips for dealing with the many special issues that must be considered with such complex businesses. http://www.law360.com/articles/123089 http://www.law360.com/articles/117760 America's export control system, created during the Cold War, has long been in need of a major overhaul, according to lawyers, many of whom are optimistic that those changes may finally be made now that the Obama administration has placed reform high on its agenda. http://www.law360.com/articles/117760 http://www.law360.com/articles/128734 The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly expressed serious concerns about the proposed $2.5 billion merger of Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and concert promoter Live Nation Inc., prompting antitrust experts to question what, if any, remedies the companies could propose that would satisfy the regulator. http://www.law360.com/articles/128734 http://www.law360.com/articles/128703 A Pennsylvania pension fund has asked a court to certify a shareholder class action alleging First American Corp. and its unit eAppraiseIT worked with Washington Mutual Inc. to manipulate real estate appraisals. http://www.law360.com/articles/128703 http://www.law360.com/articles/128384 Microprocessor company Intel Corp. and rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday exchanged motions to sanction one another in multidistrict litigation over antitrust issues. http://www.law360.com/articles/128384 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/127970 Dole Food Co. Inc., the world's largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables, revealed Tuesday that it had launched an initial public offering of 35.7 million shares priced at between $13 and $15 per share, as part of the company's plan to sell up to $500 million of stock. http://www.law360.com/articles/127970