http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Morgan Lewis Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132757 A judge has tossed all claims against Constar International Inc., citing its filing for Chapter 11 protection, in a consolidated securities fraud class action alleging the plastic container maker and several financial firms made misleading statements to investors about Constar's 2002 initial public offering. http://www.law360.com/articles/132757 http://www.law360.com/articles/132514 RadioShack Corp. has reached a settlement in a proposed class action brought by members of a company 401(k) plan who accused the electronics retailer of funneling their investments into an underperforming mutual fund. http://www.law360.com/articles/132514 http://www.law360.com/articles/132190 Iron Mountain Inc. and NetMass Inc. have settled patent infringement charges filed against them by Network Backup Corp., which has accused a plethora of companies of using its technology for backing up computer data over the Internet. http://www.law360.com/articles/132190 http://www.law360.com/articles/132369 Ryan Beck Holdings Inc. and a group of employees suing it for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act have lodged a joint motion asking a New York federal court to conditionally approve class certification for the purposes of executing a $1.3 million settlement. http://www.law360.com/articles/132369 http://www.law360.com/articles/131797 Three lawyers who previously worked at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Foley & Lardner LLP and Arrowhead Research Corp. have launched a new Washington-based intellectual property boutique — Fanelli Strain & Haag PLLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/131797 http://www.law360.com/articles/130837 Cost is typically the largest issue commercial developers face when considering whether or not to include a green roof as a part of their project. Yet various cities and states are leading the way in providing extensive financial incentives for energy-efficient development, say Jeannine T. Bishop and Meredith D. Rettaliata of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130837 http://www.law360.com/articles/131409 A federal appeals court has upheld the certification of a securities class action claiming that Constar International Inc. and several financial firms misled investors about the plastic container manufacturer’s 2002 initial public offering by touting the company as strong and competitive when its business was allegedly deteriorating. http://www.law360.com/articles/131409 http://www.law360.com/articles/131152 Pfizer Inc. is again trying to fend off a lawsuit by a group of California pharmacies and pharmacists claiming the drugmaker's $68 billion buyout of rival Wyeth will eliminate competition and stifle innovation in the U.S. prescription drug market. http://www.law360.com/articles/131152 http://www.law360.com/articles/131164 A protracted patent dispute between the University of Pittsburgh and Varian Medical Systems Inc. over patents related to radiation therapy may take another trip back to a federal appeals court, as Pitt has objected to a district court's judgment that barred it from filing a new complaint. http://www.law360.com/articles/131164 http://www.law360.com/articles/130907 Concert promoter Live Nation Worldwide Inc. has filed a breach of contract suit against former Chairman Michael Cohl and his company S2BN Entertainment Corp., accusing S2BN of failing to make $5 million in payments due under a 2008 asset purchase and noncompete relief agreement. http://www.law360.com/articles/130907 http://www.law360.com/articles/130722 Breaking away from the pack, Reed Smith LLP has rolled out a new model that seeks to group lawyers by competency level rather than relying on the tenure-based approach of yore. http://www.law360.com/articles/130722 http://www.law360.com/articles/130685 A federal judge has remanded a class action accusing Unisys Corp. of violating California's wage-and-hour laws, ruling that the technology security company could not prove that the amount at issue in the case exceeded $5 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/130685 http://www.law360.com/articles/130718 Sills Cummis & Gross PC has announced the addition of intellectual property attorney Scott D. Stimpson as a member of the firm's New York office. http://www.law360.com/articles/130718 http://www.law360.com/articles/130602 Having already failed to make headway in a putative class action alleging NutriSystem Inc. misled investors about its prospects and inflated its stock price, shareholders have fared little better in taking the weight-loss company’s brass to task over the company's downturn in 2007. http://www.law360.com/articles/130602 http://www.law360.com/articles/130560 The five high-powered firms to which Thelen LLP's partners defected effectively purchased the now-defunct firm's business and are therefore liable to its laid-off employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the ex-staffers have argued. http://www.law360.com/articles/130560 http://www.law360.com/articles/130678 After successfully defeating a motion to dismiss filed by J.M. Smucker Co., Kraft Foods Global Inc. and others, Balsam Coffee Solutions Inc. has opted to drop its second lawsuit against the coffee makers in order to concentrate on an earlier suit over patented coffee processing technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130678 http://www.law360.com/articles/128589 When it comes to resolving open concerns about arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court is wielding a scalpel — but Congress could be poised to drop a bomb, lawyers say. http://www.law360.com/articles/128589 http://www.law360.com/articles/130008 A federal court has ordered electronic billboard maker Landmark Screens LLC to turn over documents related to causation in a case accusing Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and one of its former attorneys of fraudulently concealing a divisional patent rejection notice. http://www.law360.com/articles/130008 http://www.law360.com/articles/130106 Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. has asked a federal judge to toss antitrust allegations lodged by Advanced Ion Beam Technology Inc., claiming that the court dismissed the same accusations in August after AIBT raised them as counterclaims in a separate patent infringement spat. http://www.law360.com/articles/130106 http://www.law360.com/articles/130080 Plaintiffs in multidistrict price-fixing litigation against Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. have asked a judge to force the air carrier to turn over documents it has so far refused to produce after at least 10 months of discovery. http://www.law360.com/articles/130080