http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Quinn Emanuel Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132687 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has asked a bankruptcy court to modify the automatic stay for Washington Mutual Inc. to allow the agency — the receiver for WaMu's banking unit — to compel JPMorgan Chase & Co. to turn over roughly $4 billion in deposits while the three figure out to whom the money belongs. http://www.law360.com/articles/132687 http://www.law360.com/articles/132320 Ceridian Corp. has asked a judge to sanction a group of truck stop owners that filed a putative class action against it over an alleged anti-competitive scheme in which Ceridian unit Comdata Corp. supposedly charged independent outfits like the plaintiffs inflated fees to process Trucker Fleet Card transactions. http://www.law360.com/articles/132320 http://www.law360.com/articles/131953 Semiconductor company Emcore Corp. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to exclude the testimony of a patent expert provided by rival Avago Technologies Ltd., arguing that it would be “unhelpful and unnecessary” to the case over whether Emcore imported optoelectronic devices that infringe Avago's patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131953 http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 Winston & Strawn LLP has reportedly pushed back the start date for incoming associates again, citing budget concerns in its decision to have new associates start in three groups throughout 2010. http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 http://www.law360.com/articles/131404 The United Kingdom's highest court ruled Thursday that the remaining assets of failed structured investment vehicle Sigma Finance Corp. should be spread equally among its creditors, a decision that participants in the case say could have a dramatic effect on so-called waterfall clauses in other bankruptcy cases. http://www.law360.com/articles/131404 http://www.law360.com/articles/131289 Sony Corp. and AmTran Technology Co. Ltd. have reached a confidential settlement in a dispute over three AmTran patents related to television and PC monitor technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/131289 http://www.law360.com/articles/130914 Vizio Inc. and Sony Corp. have reached a settlement in an infringement dispute over patents related to digital television technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130914 http://www.law360.com/articles/130029 After years of litigation between Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. over who owns the copyright to the Bratz dolls, a Brooklyn, N.Y., artist is now claiming that he is actually the brains behind the much-disputed doll designs. http://www.law360.com/articles/130029 http://www.law360.com/articles/130121 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has asked a federal court to send an auction rate securities fraud suit against Charles Schwab Co. Inc. back to state court, saying the company improperly characterized the state of New York as a nominal party in the suit in a bid to change jurisdictions. http://www.law360.com/articles/130121 http://www.law360.com/articles/129746 The CEO of Parmalat SpA has appealed a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that auditing firm Grant Thornton International helped Parmalat insiders orchestrate a massive securities fraud that ultimately led to the Italian dairy giant's 2003 bankruptcy. http://www.law360.com/articles/129746 http://www.law360.com/articles/129517 Motorola Inc. has reached an agreement with Stragent LLC to resolve the patent-holding company's claims that the technology giant infringed a patent related to online messaging, making Motorola the latest of a slew of defendants to exit the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/129517 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/128980 Executives who negotiated Barclays PLC's purchase of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s U.S. brokerage arm agreed in advance that Barclays would get a $5 billion discount, and some Lehman executives who moved to Barclays got large undisclosed bonuses, according to newly unsealed motions in the Lehman bankruptcy. http://www.law360.com/articles/128980 http://www.law360.com/articles/127390 Google Inc., the defendant in a patent infringement suit over adaptive Internet searches, has successfully reduced the scope of the deposition of one of its key lobbyists, whom plaintiff PA Advisors LLC had wanted to testify about the search giant's policies relating to its intellectual property and to the changes it seeks for U.S. patent laws. http://www.law360.com/articles/127390 http://www.law360.com/articles/126918 The court overseeing Washington Mutual Inc.'s suit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. over the $1.9 billion sale of WMI's banking operations to JPMorgan Chase & Co. has allowed JPMorgan to intervene as a defendant in the case, rejecting the argument that the automatic stay from WMI's bankruptcy case barred JPMorgan from getting involved in the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/126918 http://www.law360.com/articles/126889 A federal appeals court has remanded a $34 million verdict against American International Group Inc. and its subsidiaries for fraud involving reinsurance contracts, saying a lower court must address AIG's assertion that it never waived its right to arbitration. http://www.law360.com/articles/126889 http://www.law360.com/articles/126668 A federal judge has tossed the bulk of claims brought by an American International Group Inc. mortgage insurer in a suit accusing Countrywide Financial Corp. of fraud, breach of contract and negligence over insurance policies it took out for subprime mortgage securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/126668 http://www.law360.com/articles/126573 JPMorgan Chase Bank NA is asking a district court to revoke a bankruptcy court's jurisdiction over an adversary case it filed against Washington Mutual Inc. regarding claims to billions of dollars in assets, which the bankruptcy court refused to give up last week. http://www.law360.com/articles/126573 http://www.law360.com/articles/126255 IBM Corp. and Taiwanese technology company Asustek Computer Inc. have settled all pending patent litigation between them through a cross-licensing agreement that the pair said Monday would spawn more collaboration in the future. http://www.law360.com/articles/126255 http://www.law360.com/articles/126321 A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a group of hedge funds that alleged that Wachovia Corp. knew about and worsened the fraud at bankrupt beverage maker Le-Nature's Inc., saying the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act claims are not ripe. http://www.law360.com/articles/126321