http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Latham & Watkins Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132913 A judge has rejected a request by manufacturers including Honeywell International Inc., Wix Filtration Corp. and United Components Inc. to dismiss consolidated suits alleging price-fixing in the market for automotive filters under heightened pleading standards, saying the plaintiffs’ claims, which are based on eyewitness accounts, are more than sufficient to proceed in court. http://www.law360.com/articles/132913 http://www.law360.com/articles/132027 Fannie Mae benefit plan committee members have asked a federal judge to dismiss a consolidated proposed class action alleging they violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by investing in Fannie Mae stock, saying the plan did not give them discretion to alter investments. http://www.law360.com/articles/132027 http://www.law360.com/articles/131894 Plaintiffs in a securities class action claiming wireless phone seller Inphonic Inc. artificially inflated its stock price by overstating revenues and understating business expenses have voluntarily dismissed the case following the judge’s decision to dismiss several key claims. http://www.law360.com/articles/131894 http://www.law360.com/articles/132030 Windstream Corp. will acquire rural broadband provider NuVox Inc. for $643 million in a cash-and-stock deal, the companies announced Tuesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/132030 http://www.law360.com/articles/130159 The U.S. Supreme Court could attach a new application to the Mobile-Sierra doctrine Tuesday when it hears oral arguments from major players in the energy field on how to assess contract rate challenges made by noncontracting parties. http://www.law360.com/articles/130159 http://www.law360.com/articles/131247 The Mayo Clinic has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court's ruling that Prometheus Laboratories Inc.'s method patents are valid under Bilski, arguing the patents' claims “attempt to turn a physician's thought processes into infringement.” http://www.law360.com/articles/131247 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/130393 Following in the footsteps of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the U.S. International Trade Commission is appealing a bankruptcy judge's decision to stay an infringement complaint the electronics giant filed before the ITC against bankrupt Spansion Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/130393 http://www.law360.com/articles/130305 Ares Capital Corp. says it will acquire Allied Capital Corp. in a $648 million all-stock deal that will hand Ares stockholders control of about 65 percent of the combined company. http://www.law360.com/articles/130305 http://www.law360.com/articles/130115 The bankruptcy court overseeing Spansion Inc.’s Chapter 11 case has rejected an investor’s attempt to form a committee of equity holders to represent stockholders during the technology company’s choppy restructuring. http://www.law360.com/articles/130115 http://www.law360.com/articles/122735 The Supreme Court has pending on its docket a large number of significant cases this fall. Two of particular interest are Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and Bilski v. Doll, says Adam H. Charnes, a partner with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in the firm's appellate practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/122735 http://www.law360.com/articles/129965 Southern Co. has inked a deal with LS Power that will trade control of a Florida-based natural gas-fired power plant owned by Southern Co. subsidiary Southern Power for full stake in an LS-owned natural gas generation plant in Georgia. http://www.law360.com/articles/129965 http://www.law360.com/articles/130064 A federal judge has denied Pepsi Americas Inc.'s efforts to dismiss toxic tort claims brought by individuals allegedly injured by hazardous waste from a plant the company now owns, saying the claims of certain plaintiffs are not time-barred. http://www.law360.com/articles/130064 http://www.law360.com/articles/129353 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s appeal in a case over whether private contracts should govern a dispute with parties including Regal-Beloit Corp. and PICC Property & Casualty Co. Ltd. over cargo damage from a 2005 train derailment on the inland U.S. leg of a shipment from China. http://www.law360.com/articles/129353 http://www.law360.com/articles/129248 The maker of nucleic acid tests used to diagnose diseases has sued medical technology company Becton Dickinson & Co., accusing it of infringing a number of patents related to a diagnostic system. http://www.law360.com/articles/129248 http://www.law360.com/articles/129277 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is appealing a bankruptcy judge's decision to stay an infringement complaint the electronics giant filed against bankrupt Spansion Inc. in the U.S. International Trade Commission. http://www.law360.com/articles/129277 http://www.law360.com/articles/129227 Swiss human resources solutions company Adecco Group has agreed to acquire staffing agency MPS Group for approximately $1.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/129227 http://www.law360.com/articles/128995 A group of paper carriers that settled a class action against the now-bankrupt newspaper publisher Freedom Communications Holdings Inc. in 2008 has appealed a bankruptcy court's decision to allow the debtor to use prepetition lenders' cash collateral over objections by the carriers and unsecured creditors. http://www.law360.com/articles/128995 http://www.law360.com/articles/129041 Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt is now consulting for international law firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/129041 http://www.law360.com/articles/128974 A putative class of consumers has hit First Data Corp. and the banks in its ATM network with an amended antitrust complaint alleging a conspiracy to fix interchange fees, this time saying consumers can't escape the "supracompetitive" fees by taking their business elsewhere. http://www.law360.com/articles/128974