http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Morrison & Foerster Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132620 A federal judge has ordered the California Department of Health Care Services to cough up documents after siding with McKesson Corp. in a discovery battle in a proposed class action accusing the company of conspiring to inflate the average wholesale price of hundreds of drugs. http://www.law360.com/articles/132620 http://www.law360.com/articles/128666 The decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to rescind its draconian final rules represents a significant step to make the USPTO more efficient, responsive and transparent to the public, as well as to reduce the backlog of unexamined applications and improve examination efficiency and the quality of the issued patents, say Kate H. Murashige and Jenny Jih-Pin Yeh of Morrison & Foerster LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128666 http://www.law360.com/articles/131924 Former Morrison & Foerster LLP employment and labor practice co-chair Rick Bergstrom has moved over to Jones Day’s San Diego office, adding to the firm’s growing California presence. http://www.law360.com/articles/131924 http://www.law360.com/articles/130719 TiVo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. will face off in front of a federal appeals court panel over a district court decision that hit EchoStar with $200 million in sanctions for continuing to infringe a TiVo patent with its redesigned digital video recorder technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130719 http://www.law360.com/articles/131242 Stephen Hozie, the former chief financial officer of toppled mortgage lender American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., has failed to win access to federal regulators' discovery documents as he fights accounting fraud allegations his one-time colleagues have chosen to settle. http://www.law360.com/articles/131242 http://www.law360.com/articles/130879 Bankrupt Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. is facing a raft of objections to its proposed sale of oil and gas assets in Alaska's Cook Inlet region, a month after a bankruptcy judge gave Pacific Energy the go-ahead to abandon the facilities when no buyers initially emerged. http://www.law360.com/articles/130879 http://www.law360.com/articles/130653 Plaintiffs counsel Keller Rohrback LLP and Braun Law Group PC have asked a judge to award about $14 million in fees and expenses in a class action accusing Countrywide Financial Corp. of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in its treatment of a 401(k) plan. http://www.law360.com/articles/130653 http://www.law360.com/articles/130452 A judge has given leave in part to a group of Charles Schwab Corp. investors to amend a class action complaint accusing the bank and several affiliates of committing securities violations by misrepresenting the risk profile of Schwab’s YieldPlus Fund and by improperly changing the fund’s investment policies. http://www.law360.com/articles/130452 http://www.law360.com/articles/123716 In today's environment, many boards have the unfortunate need to either raise financing or sell their company on a distressed basis. This creates extremely difficult choices that often need to be made quickly, says Robert S. Townsend, chairman of Morrison & Foerster LLP's global corporate practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/123716 http://www.law360.com/articles/129935 Law firms continued to announce cost-cutting measures this week, with WilmerHale LLP confirming Thursday that it had laid off 57 support staff members across four of its offices. http://www.law360.com/articles/129935 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/129716 A bankruptcy judge signed off Wednesday on Dominican telecommunications company Tricom SA's reorganization plan, effectively ending the company's stay in bankruptcy court. http://www.law360.com/articles/129716 http://www.law360.com/articles/129485 A federal appeals court has denied The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.'s motion to appeal the certification of a class of plaintiffs alleging that the company violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by unfairly charging fees for structured settlement annuities. http://www.law360.com/articles/129485 http://www.law360.com/articles/129400 The plaintiffs in multidistrict legislation that accuses the nation's top banks of bilking consumers with egregious overdraft fees are seeking to add more meat to their allegations. http://www.law360.com/articles/129400 http://www.law360.com/articles/129169 Fujitsu Ltd., LG Electronics and U.S. Philips Corp. are appealing a September federal court ruling that over 200 Netgear Inc. products did not infringe three of the companies' Wi-Fi transmission technology patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/129169 http://www.law360.com/articles/129160 The news that Morrison & Foerster LLP will be paring back first-years' salaries came with a silver lining for some associates in its New York- and Asia-based offices, whose pay will remain consistent with current pay levels, the firm said Monday. http://www.law360.com/articles/129160 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 http://www.law360.com/articles/128765 A federal judge has given a preliminary green light to a partial settlement in a class action brought against Argus Group Holdings Ltd. and Tremont International Insurance Ltd. over losses on the insurers' investments with fraudster Bernard L. Madoff. http://www.law360.com/articles/128765 http://www.law360.com/articles/113733 Joint venture deals with investors such as private equity funds and foreign companies have helped keep energy development projects in the U.S. moving forward despite a dearth of available financing — and these types of partnership arrangements will remain frequent in the energy sector even as the economy continues to improve, lawyers say. http://www.law360.com/articles/113733 http://www.law360.com/articles/128611 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP has snagged an intellectual property and corporate transactional attorney from Morrison & Foerster LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128611