http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Husch Blackwell Sanders Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135318 A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down infringement claims for a bodybuilding supplement patent held by Iovate Health Sciences Inc. and the University of Florida Research Foundation, ruling that certain fitness magazine ads describing the product had rendered the patent obvious. http://www.law360.com/articles/135318 http://www.law360.com/articles/135138 A federal appeals court has rendered a disputed lower court ruling in an insurance spat moot and unenforceable, citing a settlement between Olin Corp. and its insurers over $12 million spent cleaning up environmental contamination at two of the chemical producer's facilities near Niagara Falls, N.Y. http://www.law360.com/articles/135138 http://www.law360.com/articles/134979 The federal government has asked a judge to approve a nearly $6 million settlement between it and several defendants, including Exxon Mobil Corp., in a long-running dispute over contamination from a former Monsanto Co. plant in southern Illinois. http://www.law360.com/articles/134979 http://www.law360.com/articles/133859 Accused of contributing to deadly contamination in Sauget, Ill., Pfizer Inc. is contending it has no viable connection to the town's Monsanto chemical plant — long the nation’s largest producer of polychlorinated byphenyls. http://www.law360.com/articles/133859 http://www.law360.com/articles/131480 A federal judge has tossed out a class action alleging Express Scripts Inc. failed to reimburse certain Alabama pharmacies for brand-name prescription drugs by neglecting to consistently update the drugs' average wholesale price as laid out in their contracts. http://www.law360.com/articles/131480 http://www.law360.com/articles/131368 International law firm Kaye Scholer LLP is splitting its class of incoming first-year associates, assigning roughly half the class to work exclusively with the firm's public interest law group. http://www.law360.com/articles/131368 http://www.law360.com/articles/130485 A federal appeals court has affirmed a ruling denying $2.5 million in “top” coverage under a directors and officers liability insurance policy provided to executives of now-defunct Fischer Imaging Co., who were accused of securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.law360.com/articles/130485 http://www.law360.com/articles/130378 Capitol Indemnity Corp. has sought summary judgment in its effort to avoid paying a $2.1 million breach of contract settlement between a building contractor the company insured and Kingsland Investments LP, insisting that the claims in the underlying suit do not compel it to defend or indemnify its client. http://www.law360.com/articles/130378 http://www.law360.com/articles/130077 A circuit panel has upheld a district court’s ruling that an Illinois chiropractor’s class action alleging Safeco Insurance Co. of America systematically underpaid claims on its car insurance policies should return to the Illinois state court where it was originally filed. http://www.law360.com/articles/130077 http://www.law360.com/articles/129348 The defendant companies in the multidistrict litigation over motor fuel temperature sales practices — which include ConocoPhillips Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron USA Inc., BP Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. — have won a bid to strike changes made to four amended complaints in the MDL, which a magistrate judge ruled were unauthorized. http://www.law360.com/articles/129348 http://www.law360.com/articles/127957 AmMed Direct LLC, a supplier of diabetes testing equipment and medication, has asked a judge to sanction Liberty Medical Supply Inc. for failing to respond to discovery requests in an unfair competition suit accusing Liberty of telling AmMed customers they had to switch to Liberty to keep receiving their products. http://www.law360.com/articles/127957 http://www.law360.com/articles/127480 Monsanto Co. has received inquiries about competition in the seed industry from the U.S. Department of Justice that stem from antitrust allegations raised by rival DuPont Co. as part of its defense against Monsanto’s patent infringement suit over technology for herbicide-resistant genetically modified soybeans and corn. http://www.law360.com/articles/127480 http://www.law360.com/articles/126772 Crowell & Moring LLP has asked its support service staff members to consider voluntary layoffs in exchange for six months' pay as the firm tries to narrow its nonattorney headcount. http://www.law360.com/articles/126772 http://www.law360.com/articles/124844 A judge has let Dow Chemical Corp., Pharmacia Corp. and Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. off the hook on a set of environmental and personal injury claims related to dioxin contamination at the St. Regis Co. Superfund site on an American Indian reservation in Cass Lake, Minn. http://www.law360.com/articles/124844 http://www.law360.com/articles/123785 In a legal battle dating back to 1984, a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that London Market Insurance Co. must reimburse about $40 million that Olin Corp. spent cleaning up environmental contamination at two of the chemical producer's facilities near Niagara Falls, N.Y. http://www.law360.com/articles/123785 http://www.law360.com/articles/123462 A federal judge will allow Monsanto Co. to sever nemesis DuPont Co.'s antitrust counterclaims from the agricultural giant's original patent and breach of contract suit alleging infringement of the technology behind its herbicide-resistant genetically modified soybeans and corn. http://www.law360.com/articles/123462 http://www.law360.com/articles/123692 The plaintiffs in multidistrict "hot fuel" litigation against defendants including ConocoPhillips Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have been ordered to provide more detail on how they intend to identify putative class members, and fork over documents on the fuel efficiency of their vehicles. http://www.law360.com/articles/123692 http://www.law360.com/articles/122478 PCS Phosphate Co. Inc., accused by two power companies of contributing to the contamination of an abandoned electrical transformer repair facility in North Carolina, claims it has already spent millions of dollars to help remove harmful substances from the site and is seeking recovery for its response costs from several co-defendants in the litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/122478 http://www.law360.com/articles/122078 A number of law firms earned high marks in a Human Rights Campaign Foundation survey that rated more than 590 businesses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace benefits and policies, with 43 percent of the 200 largest firms in the U.S. receiving a perfect score for their LGBT-friendly practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/122078 http://www.law360.com/articles/121780 Dennis Donahue, former co-chair of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP's intellectual property group, has left the firm to found his own IP boutique, Dennis Donahue & Associates. http://www.law360.com/articles/121780