http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Washington Mutual 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/130938 Shareholders who accused Washington Mutual Inc. of a massive home lending fraud have weathered an effort to get their case thrown out. http://www.law360.com/articles/130938 http://www.law360.com/articles/129313 Members of the committees that oversaw Washington Mutual Inc.'s employee savings plan are challenging a judge's order denying their bid to toss a class action claim that they mismanaged the plan's assets by investing in the failed financial giant's own stock. http://www.law360.com/articles/129313 http://www.law360.com/articles/128703 A Pennsylvania pension fund has asked a court to certify a shareholder class action alleging First American Corp. and its unit eAppraiseIT worked with Washington Mutual Inc. to manipulate real estate appraisals. http://www.law360.com/articles/128703 http://www.law360.com/articles/128220 Former banking employees have asked a judge to not include money from their deferred compensation plans in the estate of Washington Mutual Inc.'s bankruptcy, claiming that doing so would be a violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. http://www.law360.com/articles/128220 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/126696 The federal judge overseeing a consolidated putative class action brought by participants of Washington Mutual Inc.'s savings plan has dismissed JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a defendant, saying its acquisition of the failed financial giant's banking unit did not include the transfer of fiduciary liability. http://www.law360.com/articles/126696 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/126577 The derivatives trading subsidiary of American International Group Inc. told a bankruptcy judge Tuesday that Lehman Brothers Special Financing Inc. did not meet its obligation to make premium payments to the unit, in a fight over who owes whom under a credit default swap contract. http://www.law360.com/articles/126577 http://www.law360.com/articles/125255 A bankruptcy judge has shot down JPMorgan Chase Bank NA's bid to revoke her jurisdiction over an adversary case it filed against Washington Mutual Inc. regarding claims to billions of dollars in assets, calling JPMorgan's position that she lacks jurisdiction “frivolous.” http://www.law360.com/articles/125255 http://www.law360.com/articles/123458 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed an appeal brief over a bankruptcy court's denial of motions to stay or dismiss two adversary cases in Washington Mutual Inc.'s Chapter 11 proceedings, seeking a determination on whether the bankruptcy court overstepped its bounds. http://www.law360.com/articles/123458 http://www.law360.com/articles/122352 Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP has added to its ranks in New York a bankruptcy and restructuring partner who spent the last decade honing his skills at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/122352 http://www.law360.com/articles/121711 The plaintiffs in a putative class action accusing JPMorgan Chase Bank NA of violating state and federal labor laws by misclassifying its loan underwriters as exempt from overtime compensation have refined their proposed class definition to add claims for wholesale mortgage loan underwriters. http://www.law360.com/articles/121711 http://www.law360.com/articles/121647 A federal appeals court has upheld a decision to compel arbitration in a putative class action against CitiFinancial Services Inc. stemming from a loan agreement, saying a lower court was right in confirming an arbitration award favorable to the financial giant. http://www.law360.com/articles/121647 http://www.law360.com/articles/120916 Washington Mutual Inc. subsidiary WMI Investment Corp. has asked the bankruptcy court overseeing its Chapter 11 filing to approve a letter of intent allowing it to sell its investments in several wind energy companies to Goldman Sachs & Co. Inc. for at least $15 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/120916 http://www.law360.com/articles/116466 Washington Mutual Inc. has fired back in its dispute with a unit of Madison Square Garden LP over a $7.6 million claim the arena says it is owed under a sponsorship agreement for a New York City theater. http://www.law360.com/articles/116466 http://www.law360.com/articles/116485 Plaintiffs in a securities class action against Washington Mutual Inc. have asked the bankruptcy court not to throw out their $39 million claim against WaMu, despite the company's argument that it's no longer liable because it was dropped from the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/116485 http://www.law360.com/articles/115746 JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, which has been battling bankrupt Washington Mutual Inc. over claims to billions of dollars in assets, has asked a judge overseeing the failed thrift’s bankruptcy to compel noteholders claiming to be principal creditors to fully disclose their interests. http://www.law360.com/articles/115746 http://www.law360.com/articles/114159 A U.S. Senate panel has reportedly issued subpoenas to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Deutsche Bank AG and Washington Mutual Inc. as part of an investigation into the roots of the 2008 mortgage banking crisis. http://www.law360.com/articles/114159 http://www.law360.com/articles/113996 Seventeen months after the auction rate securities market meltdown, litigation will likely increase. However, instead of class actions of small investors, many investors will likely wrangle over consequential damages in arbitration and over who is eligible for ARS buybacks under the settlements, say Michael T. Gass and Peter B. Moores of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/113996