http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: K&L Gates Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135656 Sprint Nextel Corp. has claimed a bankruptcy court made a reversible error in striking down its $1.9 billion spectrum-clearing reimbursement claims against DBSD North American Inc., saying the final call on the claim should go to the Federal Communications Commission. http://www.law360.com/articles/135656 http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 A federal judge has declined to allow Wells Fargo Retail Finance — as a secured creditor to certain bankrupt class members — to participate in a multibillion-dollar retailer antitrust settlement with Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc., saying that the lender was too late in filing its claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 http://www.law360.com/articles/135321 Dell Inc. and Abstrax Inc. have reached a confidential settlement and licensing agreement in a suit accusing the computer giant of infringing an Abstrax patent related to a method for assembling products with a computer. http://www.law360.com/articles/135321 http://www.law360.com/articles/133473 The city of St. Maries, Idaho, and Carney Products Co. Ltd. have reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Coeur d'Alene Tribe to clean up a Superfund site in St. Maries, at a cost estimated at more than $12 million, EPA has announced. http://www.law360.com/articles/133473 http://www.law360.com/articles/132821 Oil field servicing company Key Energy Services Inc. is asking a federal judge for summary judgment to force Twin City Fire Insurance Co. to pay it about $914,000 to partially cover $21.9 million Key paid to settle two securities and shareholder lawsuits brought against it. http://www.law360.com/articles/132821 http://www.law360.com/articles/132544 The U.S. Department of Justice has named Leonard Grunstein, head of two real estate practice groups at Troutman Sanders LLP, as a defendant in a civil complaint in the still-unfolding case involving nursing home drug supply giant Omnicare Inc., which agreed Tuesday to pay $98 million to settle claims that it was part of a broad kickback scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/132544 http://www.law360.com/articles/131602 The health care bill proposed last month in the U.S. House of Representatives would give the Federal Trade Commission new authority to study competition in the health insurance industry — but antitrust attorneys say that won't necessarily lead to new regulations or tougher enforcement. http://www.law360.com/articles/131602 http://www.law360.com/articles/131778 A federal judge has again denied summary judgment to Neuralstem Inc. in its battle with fellow biotherapeutics company StemCells Inc. over patents related to stem cells, setting the stage for a trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/131778 http://www.law360.com/articles/131756 A federal judge has issued a second decision that, like the first one, strikes down a series of ordinances and a resolution designed to prohibit energy development in a small Pennsylvania town. http://www.law360.com/articles/131756 http://www.law360.com/articles/131368 International law firm Kaye Scholer LLP is splitting its class of incoming first-year associates, assigning roughly half the class to work exclusively with the firm's public interest law group. http://www.law360.com/articles/131368 http://www.law360.com/articles/130158 The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a ruling in a failed class action against Allstate Insurance Co. that, if upheld, could prompt more state legislatures to exert control over the power of the federal courts to certify class actions. http://www.law360.com/articles/130158 http://www.law360.com/articles/131228 Direct mail marketing products company Advo Inc. and some of its directors and officers have reached a $12.5 million settlement in a securities class action alleging that they issued false and misleading information in relation to a new operating system and a merger with Valassis Communications Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131228 http://www.law360.com/articles/130638 Despite opposition from creditors Dish Network Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp., the judge overseeing DBSD North America Inc.'s Chapter 11 proceedings has given the go-ahead to the satellite service operator's reorganization plan, which calls for converting around $750 million of second-lien debt into equity. http://www.law360.com/articles/130638 http://www.law360.com/articles/130395 Sprint Nextel Corp. and Dish Network Corp. have lodged their latest objections to satellite communications company DBSD North America Inc.’s Chapter 11 plan, objecting to the debtor’s bids to obtain post-petition financing and extend its exclusivity period. http://www.law360.com/articles/130395 http://www.law360.com/articles/130430 A U.S. International Trade Commission investigation has affirmed an administrative law judge's finding that flash drive products made and imported by Taiwan-based manufacturers Phison Electronics Corp., Silicon Motion Inc. and Skymedi Corp. do not infringe SanDisk Corp. patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/130430 http://www.law360.com/articles/130040 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has resolved all state and federal court claims alleging it played a key part in assisting retirement home operator Sunwest Management Inc., its former client, with running a $400 million Ponzi scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/130040 http://www.law360.com/articles/129351 Sprint Nextel Corp. has laid out the grounds for an appeal of its dismissed bid to hold debtors in the DBSD North America Inc. bankruptcy jointly liable for $1.9 billion to cover reimbursements for clearing spectrum band. http://www.law360.com/articles/129351 http://www.law360.com/articles/129174 One-time search engine giant Lycos Inc. has abandoned its challenge of a noninfringement ruling in favor of Netflix Inc. in a dispute over patents related to technology for collaborative filtering. http://www.law360.com/articles/129174 http://www.law360.com/articles/128613 In two recent cases, Kirschner vs. K&L Gates LLP and Roberts vs. McAfee Inc., corporate stakeholders have taken the unprecedented step of suing, and seeking substantial recoveries from, attorneys engaged to assist special committees in investigating corporate malfeasance. These cases highlight a new risk faced by outside counsel, say Michael T. Gass and Alessandro Martuscelli of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128613 http://www.law360.com/articles/128332 K&L Gates LLP has scooped up bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights expert Michael B. Lubic, who joins the firm as a partner in its bankruptcy and insolvency practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/128332