http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Safeway Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 A federal judge has declined to allow Wells Fargo Retail Finance — as a secured creditor to certain bankrupt class members — to participate in a multibillion-dollar retailer antitrust settlement with Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc., saying that the lender was too late in filing its claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 http://www.law360.com/articles/133598 Wausau Underwriters Insurance Co. has won summary judgment in a suit brought by Bank of America NA that called for the insurer to reimburse it for the costs of settling environmental contamination litigation with Safeway Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/133598 http://www.law360.com/articles/133444 Bank of America NA is on its own to pay $1.6 million in a property pollution case brought against it by Safeway Inc., after a federal judge sided with two insurers that claimed the bank's hiring of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in the underlying suit may have led to a poor settlement result. http://www.law360.com/articles/133444 http://www.law360.com/articles/132310 Los Angeles-based bankruptcy specialist Levene Neale Bender Rankin & Brill LLP has announced it will absorb boutique firm Robinson Diamant & Wolkowitz effective Jan. 1, 2010. http://www.law360.com/articles/132310 http://www.law360.com/articles/129328 A series of companies and local governments have agreed to pay nearly $3 million combined to help clean up a former landfill on U.S. Forest Service lands near Lake Tahoe, Calif. http://www.law360.com/articles/129328 http://www.law360.com/articles/121652 Abbott Laboratories has asked a judge to throw out four recently amended complaints filed by pharmacies, wholesale direct drug purchasers and rival drug manufacturers alleging Abbott illegally jacked up the prices of its market-dominating HIV drugs, calling the complaints “a vain attempt to plead around” recent antitrust case law. http://www.law360.com/articles/121652 http://www.law360.com/articles/121174 Wausau Underwriters Insurance Co. has asked a federal judge to throw out an insurance dispute in which Bank of America NA alleges that Wausau must reimburse the bank for litigation costs in an underlying case over environmental contamination. http://www.law360.com/articles/121174 http://www.law360.com/articles/119788 Walgreen Co., Safeway Inc. and three others have become the latest retailers to accuse Cephalon Inc. of striking illegal deals with generic-drug makers to keep a copycat version of narcolepsy drug Provigil off the market. http://www.law360.com/articles/119788 http://www.law360.com/articles/116561 Rite Aid Corp., CVS Pharmacy Inc. and several other pharmacy chains have filed a second amended complaint in their antitrust action against Abbott Laboratories alleging the drugmaker illegally jacked up the prices of its market-dominating HIV medications, following an appeals court ruling that a similar class action against Abbott failed to state a valid claim in light of recent case law. http://www.law360.com/articles/116561 http://www.law360.com/articles/114873 An Acacia Research Corp. subsidiary has settled with several major companies, including Chevron USA, Tiffany & Co., Avis Budget Group Inc., Bose Corp., Guitar Center Stores Inc. and Guess Inc., in ongoing litigation concerning a patent aimed at protecting consumers from financial fraud. http://www.law360.com/articles/114873 http://www.law360.com/articles/109672 Plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation against Aurora Dairy Corp. and several U.S. retailers alleging that Aurora sold milk falsely certified as organic are appealing a district court's decision last month that their claims were preempted by federal law. http://www.law360.com/articles/109672 http://www.law360.com/articles/108932 Safeway Inc. and Walgreen Co. have sued five drug companies — including Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its unit Unimed Pharmaceuticals LLC — over an alleged scheme to block generic competition for the drug AndroGel, marking another private suit over AndroGel in the wake of the Federal Trade Commission taking Solvay to court in January. http://www.law360.com/articles/108932 http://www.law360.com/articles/104735 A federal judge has dismissed all remaining claims in a multidistrict litigation against Aurora Dairy Corp. and several U.S. retailers alleging that Aurora sold milk falsely certified as organic, finding that the plaintiffs' claims are preempted by federal law. http://www.law360.com/articles/104735 http://www.law360.com/articles/102803 A federal court has consolidated two suits stemming from whether insurers have a duty to defend Aurora Dairy Corp. in a slew of consumer class actions claiming the company’s milk was falsely certified as organic. http://www.law360.com/articles/102803 http://www.law360.com/articles/99695 A federal judge has ordered Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. to pay defense and settlement costs to Safeway Inc., dealing a defeat to the insurer in connection with the grocer's settlement of an underlying slip-and-fall liability lawsuit. http://www.law360.com/articles/99695 http://www.law360.com/articles/98482 A federal judge has approved a $250 million settlement in the long-running antitrust class action that accused Abbott Laboratories and its French partner Fournier Industrie et Sante of conspiring to block generics makers from breaking into the lucrative market for the high-cholesterol drug TriCor. http://www.law360.com/articles/98482 http://www.law360.com/articles/96639 Counsel for class members in the antitrust litigation accusing Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. of forcing merchants to accept debit card transactions at supracompetitive prices should have sought the court's permission before disclosing sealed information related to a bid to securitize MasterCard's remaining $400 million in payment obligations from a $3 billion settlement deal, a federal judge said. http://www.law360.com/articles/96639 http://www.law360.com/articles/96381 A Florida appeals court has revoked certification for a class of consumers in a suit alleging that Safeway Premium Finance Co. improperly overcharged its customers, saying the plaintiffs failed to show that the additional charges were intentional. http://www.law360.com/articles/96381 http://www.law360.com/articles/96363 In multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the chocolate industry, a federal judge has agreed to allow a group of chocolate makers to immediately appeal a recent ruling that the plaintiffs' claims had sufficiently cleared a hurdle put in place by the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Co. v. Twombly. http://www.law360.com/articles/96363 http://www.law360.com/articles/95310 A federal appeals court has asked the Supreme Court of California to determine whether two separate physical injuries caused by the prolonged use of tobacco products may give rise to separate limitations periods, in a suit against a slew of tobacco companies brought by an ex-smoker with terminal lung cancer. http://www.law360.com/articles/95310