http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Buchanan Ingersoll Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134207 West Virginia's highest court has upheld on remand its decision to overturn a $50 million verdict against Massey Energy Co. in a dispute over coal contracts, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the court should have disqualified a judge who received campaign funds from a Massey executive. http://www.law360.com/articles/134207 http://www.law360.com/articles/133741 Patent-holding company Rembrandt Data Technologies LP is again picking up the sword in its infringement battle against a group of defendants including DirecTV Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., launching an appeal of the dismissal of its claims over patents covering Internet dial-up technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133741 http://www.law360.com/articles/133725 A federal jury in Pennsylvania has awarded two former employees of chemical producer PQ Corp. a total of more than $6.2 million, finding that the company willfully violated age discrimination laws when it fired the workers in May 2005 as part of a layoff. http://www.law360.com/articles/133725 http://www.law360.com/articles/133584 A judge has rejected Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc.'s request for sanctions against plaintiffs' counsel in a collective action over pay policies, saying a recent decision rejecting a similar request in a related case doomed efforts to punish these attorneys over unsupervised notices sent to potential opt-in plaintiffs in the first case. http://www.law360.com/articles/133584 http://www.law360.com/articles/133129 Zinc producer Horsehead Corp. has asked a federal court to approve a $1.2 million settlement with more than 500 plaintiffs who say the company failed to pay them for meal breaks and for job-related functions including donning and doffing clothes and safety gear. http://www.law360.com/articles/133129 http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 A District of Columbia appeals court has kept a case against Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless Inc., AT&T Corp. and others alive, reversing in part a lower court's decision to dismiss consolidated suits claiming older phones emitted dangerous amounts of radiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 http://www.law360.com/articles/130530 A member of a Pittsburgh-area hospital system targeted in a collective action over meal break pay practices has asked a federal judge to levy sanctions against plaintiffs counsel Thomas & Solomon LLP for sending mailings to potential plaintiffs allegedly in violation of a court order. http://www.law360.com/articles/130530 http://www.law360.com/articles/129732 The overall objectives of President Obama’s Plan for a Healthy America, as well as those for many of the states, are to assure that all Americans have health care coverage, to lower health care costs and to ensure high quality health care for all. What does this mean for hospitals and their boards? ask George A. Huber, Thomas E. Boyle, Robert Ramsey and Martin Corry of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. http://www.law360.com/articles/129732 http://www.law360.com/articles/127183 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has continued a streak of litigation hires with the addition of shareholder Philip L. Hirschhorn, who joins the firm’s intellectual property litigation section from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/127183 http://www.law360.com/articles/125947 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has nabbed former Bingham McCutchen LLP intellectual property lawyer Erin Dunston for its Alexandria, Va., office, where she will serve as counsel in the firm's intellectual property practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/125947 http://www.law360.com/articles/124749 Having already shot down Stephen Slesinger Inc.’s breach of contract counterclaims in an epic dispute with Disney Enterprises Inc. over royalties from the Winnie the Pooh franchise, a federal judge has tossed the remaining copyright infringement counterclaims. http://www.law360.com/articles/124749 http://www.law360.com/articles/124552 A federal judge has granted final approval of a $15.1 million settlement to resolve multidistrict antitrust litigation accusing Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, Evonik Degussa Corp., Lucite International Inc. and Arkema Inc. of involvement in a conspiracy to fix and inflate the prices of methyl methacrylate and polymethyl methacrylate. http://www.law360.com/articles/124552 http://www.law360.com/articles/124455 A federal appeals court has reinstated an arbitration order tossed by the transferee judge in pharmacy benefit managers antitrust multidistrict litigation, saying MDL judges cannot overturn a transfer court's orders, with few exceptions. http://www.law360.com/articles/124455 http://www.law360.com/articles/124374 RTI Hamilton Inc. is trying to wriggle out of contracts to buy chemicals from a Tronox Inc. subsidiary and to build a $300 million titanium sponge production facility, claiming the bankrupt pigment maker never revealed how close it was to financial collapse. http://www.law360.com/articles/124374 http://www.law360.com/articles/123235 A federal judge has upheld the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act claims of a group of employees who sued a Pittsburgh-area hospital system over its meal break pay practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/123235 http://www.law360.com/articles/123204 A magistrate judge has asked a France-based lens company to provide information about its relationship with intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC, which Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH is seeking to bring on as additional counsel in its patent case against Signet Armorlite Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/123204 http://www.law360.com/articles/122788 Plaintiffs in a price-fixing suit against plastic additives makers have once again moved for class certification in the wake of a federal appeals court decision that revoked their class status the first time around. http://www.law360.com/articles/122788 http://www.law360.com/articles/115242 Particularly given the current economy, as well as the “bailout” of large institutional corporations, we should expect a wave of both resale price maintenance cases and Section 2 monopolization challenges. As retailers struggle for sales and lower their prices to secure needed volumes, manufacturers worry about the destruction of their brand and push for higher pricing, says Wendelynne J. Newton, head of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC's antitrust and trade regulation practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/115242 http://www.law360.com/articles/120871 West Virginia's highest court reconsidered Tuesday whether to uphold a $50 million verdict against Massey Energy Co., this time without the chief justice, whose reversal of the verdict was tarnished by connections to the coal giant. http://www.law360.com/articles/120871 http://www.law360.com/articles/115239 The opportunities to develop the art of being a trial lawyer have become severely limited not only because of the economy but because of what may be our overemphasis of the benefits of alternative dispute resolution, says Samuel W. Braver, chair of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC's products liability practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/115239