http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: King & Spalding Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132466 Najarian Furniture Co. Inc. has lost a bid to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from reliquidating imports of Chinese furniture at a new, higher rate, despite a federal judge's determination that the Department of Commerce may have reassessed the rate arbitrarily to correct a previous mathematical error. http://www.law360.com/articles/132466 http://www.law360.com/articles/132134 The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, a case involving two men convicted of a 1977 murder on bogus evidence that will determine whether prosecutors' immunity extends to their pretrial investigations. http://www.law360.com/articles/132134 http://www.law360.com/articles/130694 China's practice of understating the value of its currency is a contentious subject with deep political, economic and trade implications. Some experts say that issues of currency are best left up to the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, but with top officials so far declining to take definitive action on exchange rates, other players have looked for new ways to apply pressure on China. http://www.law360.com/articles/130694 http://www.law360.com/articles/132036 The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade has wedged itself into an anti-dumping dispute over wooden bedroom furniture from China, arguing that importer Najarian Furniture Co. Inc. is seeking an improper windfall through an injunction on duties. http://www.law360.com/articles/132036 http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 Private equity firm TPG Capital has purchased a majority stake in natural gas services company Valerus Compression Services LLP for $500 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 http://www.law360.com/articles/124117 Globalization has caused international contracts to become increasingly standardized, but there are still major regional differences that can serve as pitfalls for lawyers, according to experts from around the globe. http://www.law360.com/articles/124117 http://www.law360.com/articles/131141 Technology company Qimonda AG has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to review a determination issued earlier this month finding one Qimonda patent invalid, and ruling that Seagate Technology and LSI Corp. had not infringed three other Qimonda patents by importing semiconductor integrated circuit chips. http://www.law360.com/articles/131141 http://www.law360.com/articles/129923 An investigative magistrate judge in Paris has decided to press criminal charges against former Vivendi SA CEO Jean-Marie Messier and six others accused of misleading investors and manipulating stock prices, the company said Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/129923 http://www.law360.com/articles/129748 A coalition of domestic furniture manufacturers has secured an injunction preventing the liquidation of duty entries on wooden bedroom furniture imported from China in 2007. http://www.law360.com/articles/129748 http://www.law360.com/articles/129641 DuPont Co. and Makhteshim Agan of North America Inc. have reached a licensing deal for DuPont crop protection patents and resolved a lawsuit in which Makhteshim Agan sought a declaration that a DuPont patent was invalid. http://www.law360.com/articles/129641 http://www.law360.com/articles/129120 Five 2009 appellate securities decisions focusing on loss causation foretell the difficulties plaintiffs will face proving that fraud — instead of market forces or other negative but nonfraud factors — was the principal cause of their losses, especially given industrywide declines in share values for financial institutions, say Michael R. Smith and William O.L. Hutchinson of King & Spalding LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/129120 http://www.law360.com/articles/129518 The U.S. Department of Commerce has raised countervailing duties against Chinese welded pipe exporters, having determined on remand that it erred in its calculation of duties against Huludao Steel Pipe Industrial Co. Ltd. and several affiliates. http://www.law360.com/articles/129518 http://www.law360.com/articles/128957 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has revived a mass tort that accuses dozens of oil and chemical companies of adding to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina through their emissions of greenhouse gases, a decision that comes less than a month after the Second Circuit breathed new life into a similar mass tort. http://www.law360.com/articles/128957 http://www.law360.com/articles/128952 Sprint Nextel Corp. has agreed to acquire affiliate iPCS Wireless Inc. in an $831 million deal that will bring an end to all litigation between the two companies over an operating contract and keep the telecommunications giant from having to sell off its integrated digital enhanced network assets in some iPCS territories in the Midwest. http://www.law360.com/articles/128952 http://www.law360.com/articles/128864 An administrative law judge has largely found in favor of defendants Seagate Technology and LSI Corp. in a patent suit filed by Qimonda AG alleging importation of semiconductor integrated circuit chips that infringe Qimonda’s patents, finding that the defendants either did not infringe the patents-at-issue or that the patents are invalid. http://www.law360.com/articles/128864 http://www.law360.com/articles/129032 Bankrupt flash memory provider Spansion Inc. has fired back at Apple Inc., saying it is attempting to sidestep a bankruptcy court's order and add the affirmative defense of express license against Spansion's patent infringement complaint before the U.S. International Trade Commission. http://www.law360.com/articles/129032 http://www.law360.com/articles/128264 A federal judge has granted Wells Fargo & Co.'s request to toss credit card payment processor Elavon Inc.'s tortious interference and punitive damages claims from its breach of contract suit accusing Wells Fargo of causing Wachovia Bank NA to wrongfully terminate its exclusive referral agreement with Elavon during the banks' 2008 merger. http://www.law360.com/articles/128264 http://www.law360.com/articles/128513 A trade group representing U.S. furniture manufacturers has launched a suit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, claiming the agency's third review of anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of wooden bedroom furniture is rife with errors. http://www.law360.com/articles/128513 http://www.law360.com/articles/128222 American Signature Inc. is appealing the denial of its bid for a temporary injunction that would block the U.S. Department of Commerce from reassessing duties against it associated with the import of wooden bedroom furniture from China. http://www.law360.com/articles/128222 http://www.law360.com/articles/128108 The plaintiffs in a securities class action against Vivendi Universal S.A. are trying to put a stop to a lawsuit the French entertainment giant recently brought in Paris aiming to force two class members to drop out of the long-standing litigation by threatening them with severe financial penalties. http://www.law360.com/articles/128108