http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Motley Rice Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132551 A federal judge has partially granted Oklahoma's bid for sanctions against Cargill Inc. for allegedly botching discovery requests in a suit brought by the state that accuses the company of tainting the Illinois River watershed with poultry waste. http://www.law360.com/articles/132551 http://www.law360.com/articles/126686 Medtronic Inc. has asked a judge to dismiss a putative securities class action related to the off-label use of its InFuse spinal graft product, arguing that the mere disclosure that the medical device maker received a subpoena regarding its practices is not enough to show that fraud caused a drop in stock prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/126686 http://www.law360.com/articles/123203 Investors in Constellation Energy Group Inc. are suing to recover money they lost on the company's stock after a mistake led Constellation to underreport by more than $1 billion the amount of incremental collateral it would need in the event of a credit downgrade. http://www.law360.com/articles/123203 http://www.law360.com/articles/123027 Egg producer Cal-Maine Farms Inc. has been dismissed from the state of Oklahoma's lawsuit accusing a number of poultry producers of tainting the Illinois River watershed with poultry waste. http://www.law360.com/articles/123027 http://www.law360.com/articles/122815 A group of plaintiffs suing Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. on claims that it overcharged customers who refinanced their homes lost its class status after the judge overseeing the case ruled that it no longer met the standards for class certification. http://www.law360.com/articles/122815 http://www.law360.com/articles/122097 Oklahoma has asked a federal judge to speed up consideration of a bid for sanctions against Cargill Inc. for allegedly blocking discovery in the state's suit accusing it of tainting the Illinois River watershed with poultry waste. http://www.law360.com/articles/122097 http://www.law360.com/articles/121221 A class of First American Title Insurance Co. policyholders has won its bid for summary judgment of liability on a breach of contract claim in a suit alleging the insurance company overcharged its customers for residential title insurance policies. http://www.law360.com/articles/121221 http://www.law360.com/articles/119198 A judge has decided that a jury can consider part of a lawsuit brought by the state of Oklahoma accusing Tyson Foods Inc. and other poultry processors of polluting the Illinois River with chicken waste. http://www.law360.com/articles/119198 http://www.law360.com/articles/118675 A federal judge has ordered plaintiffs in the multidistrict product liability litigation over the heart medication Digitek to hand over information relating to whether the individual in each identified case had sufficient evidentiary support to justify filing a claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/118675 http://www.law360.com/articles/115902 A district judge has upheld a magistrate judge's order expanding discovery in a multidistrict product liability case accusing Actavis of selling a defective or adulterated heart medication, overruling Actavis' objection that the magistrate judge allowed plaintiffs overly broad discovery. http://www.law360.com/articles/115902 http://www.law360.com/articles/114736 Tyson Foods Inc. and other poultry processors targeted in a lawsuit accusing them of polluting the Illinois River with chicken waste told the judge overseeing the suit that the claims remaining in the case — which were pared down by a court ruling last month — were suited to a bench trial, not a jury trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/114736 http://www.law360.com/articles/114732 A judge denied several motions Monday from defendants to dismiss claims in multidistrict litigation over alleged problems in the manufacture of Actavis Totowa LLC's heart disease drug Digitek. http://www.law360.com/articles/114732 http://www.law360.com/articles/113327 The judge overseeing Oklahoma's multimillion-dollar lawsuit accusing Tyson Foods Inc. and other poultry processors of polluting the Illinois River with chicken waste has partially granted the companies' motion to quash the state's supplemental expert witness reports. http://www.law360.com/articles/113327 http://www.law360.com/articles/113142 A settlement in a shareholder derivative suit on behalf of MBNA Corp. will provide the company with $7 million to put toward a $25 million deal it reached last month to resolve a related securities class action. http://www.law360.com/articles/113142 http://www.law360.com/articles/113007 A federal judge will allow attorneys to have ex parte contact with Actavis Group employees in the multidistrict litigation accusing Actavis of selling a defective or adulterated heart medication. http://www.law360.com/articles/113007 http://www.law360.com/articles/112901 A federal judge has dismissed Oklahoma's damages claims against Tyson Foods Inc. in a more than half-billion dollar suit over pollution in the Illinois River watershed, saying the state's failure to join an American Indian nation in the action is unfair. http://www.law360.com/articles/112901 http://www.law360.com/articles/111255 Ruling that a product's characteristic ingredient cannot constitute a claim of defective design, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of strict liability and negligence claims against white lead carbonate pigment manufacturers including the Sherwin-Williams Co. and DuPont Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/111255 http://www.law360.com/articles/110529 Tyson Foods Inc. has lost its bid to push back a September trial accusing several poultry producers of polluting Oklahoma’s Illinois River. http://www.law360.com/articles/110529 http://www.law360.com/articles/110230 A federal judge has dismissed three putative class actions seeking a total of more than $4 billion over allegations that the top U.S. consumer credit reporting agencies hurt credit scores for Capital One cardholders by failing to publish credit limits in their credit reports. http://www.law360.com/articles/110230 http://www.law360.com/articles/109527 A federal judge has allowed for expanded discovery and has refused Actavis Group's bid to quash a subpoena in the multidistrict product liability case accusing Actavis of selling a defective or adulterated heart medication. http://www.law360.com/articles/109527