http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: CBS Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134923 BP America Inc., ConocoPhillips Co., Shell Exploration & Production Co. and other energy companies have told a federal judge that there is no reason for them to be targeted in a putative class action brought by employment drug screening firms alleging that DrugTest Inc. snuffed out competition for oil and gas industry clients. http://www.law360.com/articles/134923 http://www.law360.com/articles/133812 API Technologies LLC has dropped business media outlet Thomson Reuters Corp. from a suit accusing two dozen companies of infringing its data network patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/133812 http://www.law360.com/articles/133031 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping health care reform bill in a narrow vote late Saturday, but the bill faces a tough road ahead in a divided Senate, where Republicans and some moderate Democrats have vowed to block its passage. http://www.law360.com/articles/133031 http://www.law360.com/articles/130117 Sony Electronics Inc. has become the latest company to settle patent infringement allegations brought by Traffic Information LLC over its traffic-detection system patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/130117 http://www.law360.com/articles/128240 Theater company National Amusements Inc. plans to sell $600 million of its stake in Viacom Inc. and $345 million of its stake in CBS Corp. in order to pay off debt, the company announced Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/128240 http://www.law360.com/articles/127371 API Technologies LLC has cut a deal with AOL LLC, MapQuest Inc. and other Internet firms in its suit targeting dozens of companies for allegedly infringing its data network patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/127371 http://www.law360.com/articles/127271 A New York Supreme Court judge has bounced a second suit filed by former CBS anchor Dan Rather over his controversial firing on the heels of an appellate court tossing out his original $70 million breach of contract claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/127271 http://www.law360.com/articles/125928 Traffic Information LLC has settled an intellectual property infringement dispute with Volvo Cars of North America LLC, removing the carmaker from wide-reaching litigation over the patent-holding company's traffic data transmission system. http://www.law360.com/articles/125928 http://www.law360.com/articles/125219 A New York appeals court has thrown out breach of contract and the other remaining claims in news anchor Dan Rather's suit against CBS Corp. alleging he was booted from his position as the network's top anchorman because of a controversial report on President George W. Bush's Vietnam-era military service. http://www.law360.com/articles/125219 http://www.law360.com/articles/124276 Patent-holding company SimpleAir Inc. has sued Facebook Inc., the Walt Disney Co., Apple Inc. and a handful of other corporations for allegedly infringing four patents that cover network messaging. http://www.law360.com/articles/124276 http://www.law360.com/articles/123787 A New York judge has given former news anchor Dan Rather the green light to question CBS Corp. chairman Sumner Redstone about the newsman’s controversial firing, but denied more exploratory discovery requests in the $70 million breach of contract suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/123787 http://www.law360.com/articles/120579 An interesting question that courts have yet to resolve is whether the misappropriation of confidential information that does not qualify as a trade secret may nevertheless be actionable under unfair competition law, says Gregory A. Frantz of Mayer Brown LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/120579 http://www.law360.com/articles/123185 Texas patent-holding company Traffic Information LLC has struck a deal with Korean cell phone maker Pantech Wireless Inc. in a lawsuit claiming a group of wireless communications companies infringed its patents covering a traffic detection system. http://www.law360.com/articles/123185 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/122628 Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the fleeting broadcast of an indecent image is not exempt from indecency laws, the Federal Communications Commission has filed a brief arguing it should be able to further investigate whether CBS Corp. acted recklessly in the infamous “Nipplegate” case. http://www.law360.com/articles/122628 http://www.law360.com/articles/122087 A federal judge has ruled that Veoh Networks Inc., which operates the Veoh video-sharing software and Web site, is entitled to safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is not liable for monetary or injunctive relief to Universal Music Group entities that had sued it for copyright infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/122087 http://www.law360.com/articles/121564 Texas patent-holding company Traffic Information LLC has struck a deal with Samsung Telecommunications America LLC in its suit targeting a group of wireless communications companies for allegedly infringing its patents covering a traffic-detection system. http://www.law360.com/articles/121564 http://www.law360.com/articles/120169 Bernard L. Madoff's sons and brother could reportedly be the next targets of the court-appointed trustee tasked with liquidating the disgraced financier's securities investment firm. http://www.law360.com/articles/120169 http://www.law360.com/articles/120031 Southern California news publisher Freedom Communications Holdings Inc. and 49 subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday, saying Freedom had reached a deal with its lenders to restructure its more than $1 billion in debt. http://www.law360.com/articles/120031 http://www.law360.com/articles/118051 Beazer East Inc. has agreed to reimburse the commonwealth of Pennsylvania for nearly $2 million of the more than $3.7 million the state says it spent on cleaning up hazardous contamination at an old landfill in western Pennsylvania. http://www.law360.com/articles/118051