http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: AT&T Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135145 IPhone buyers who claim Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC violated antitrust laws by monopolizing the aftermarket for iPhone voice and data services have asked a federal judge to make Apple fork over iPhone source code. http://www.law360.com/articles/135145 http://www.law360.com/articles/135199 A federal appeals court has rejected a plaintiff's bid to overturn a district court’s decision that AT&T Inc. did not illegally reduce workers' pension benefits by applying a preretirement mortality discount to her lump sum retirement benefits payout. http://www.law360.com/articles/135199 http://www.law360.com/articles/134679 AT&T has asked a federal court to dismiss allegations of age discrimination against retired workers the company refused to rehire, saying the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to state a claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/134679 http://www.law360.com/articles/134448 Arnold & Porter LLP has lured a longtime member of the U.S. Office of the Solicitor General to head its appellate and Supreme Court practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/134448 http://www.law360.com/articles/134079 National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., has called for the summary dismissal of a claim for coverage in a $30 million suit brought by Cox Communications Inc. that seeks reimbursement for the costs of indemnifying an executive caught up in investor litigation over the collapse of Internet service provider At Home Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/134079 http://www.law360.com/articles/132911 AT&T Inc. has completed its $944 million acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. following conditional approval of the deal by the Federal Communications Commission, which demanded certain divestitures over competition concerns. http://www.law360.com/articles/132911 http://www.law360.com/articles/132502 AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and other wireless communications heavyweights have been accused by patent-holding company Child Protect LLC of infringing two patents related to control communications between mobile devices. http://www.law360.com/articles/132502 http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 A District of Columbia appeals court has kept a case against Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless Inc., AT&T Corp. and others alive, reversing in part a lower court's decision to dismiss consolidated suits claiming older phones emitted dangerous amounts of radiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 http://www.law360.com/articles/131237 Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC are facing a putative class action from an iPhone user in Alabama alleging the companies misrepresented the smartphone's multimedia messaging service capabilities. http://www.law360.com/articles/131237 http://www.law360.com/articles/130988 A putative class of Dell Inc. consumers has won its bid to toss an order compelling arbitration of its suit over allegedly defective laptop computers, with a federal judge ruling that the arbitration clause and class action waiver of Dell's service agreement are unenforceable. http://www.law360.com/articles/130988 http://www.law360.com/articles/130807 A federal appeals court has greenlighted a class action over AT&T Mobility LLC's fees, saying the arbitration clause in the cell phone company's standard contracts is unconscionable despite company efforts to creatively rejig it. http://www.law360.com/articles/130807 http://www.law360.com/articles/130257 Crowell & Moring LLP has affirmed rumors of its continued westward expansion, announcing on Monday the addition of 29 new attorneys formerly of San Francisco litigation firm Folger Levin & Kahn LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130257 http://www.law360.com/articles/130117 Sony Electronics Inc. has become the latest company to settle patent infringement allegations brought by Traffic Information LLC over its traffic-detection system patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/130117 http://www.law360.com/articles/130024 A group of Michigan-based AT&T Corp. call center workers has won conditional class certification in a wage-and-hour battle against the telecommunications giant. http://www.law360.com/articles/130024 http://www.law360.com/articles/128896 Battlestar Galactica producer Ron Moore urged the passage of rules to promote competition in video programming during a congressional hearing Thursday, arguing that media conglomerates are squeezing out independent producers. http://www.law360.com/articles/128896 http://www.law360.com/articles/129846 The Federal Communications Commission has voted unanimously to begin crafting net neutrality rules aimed at prohibiting network operators from blocking certain kinds of Web traffic. http://www.law360.com/articles/129846 http://www.law360.com/articles/129787 Plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation alleging that Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G underperforms on AT&T Mobility LLC’s 3G data network have filed a consolidated complaint accusing the technology giant of fraud and negligence, and of violating a number of state consumer protection statutes. http://www.law360.com/articles/129787 http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 Motorola Inc. has filed an antitrust suit against a slew of Asia-based liquid crystal display panel makers, including AU Optronics Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. and Sharp Electronics Corp., claiming they engaged in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 http://www.law360.com/articles/129074 AT&T Inc. has asked a federal judge who temporarily restrained the telecommunications giant from implementing an allegedly predatory pricing program to issue a stay of the order pending interlocutory appeal, as well as narrow the order's parameters to include only the five carriers that brought the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/129074 http://www.law360.com/articles/129068 With the Federal Communications Commission expected to vote on hotly debated net neutrality rules Thursday, 72 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the agency to soften the proposals to avoid stifling broadband competition, while Google Inc. and other top Web-based companies have stressed the need for a more open Internet. http://www.law360.com/articles/129068