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  • October 9, 2006

    Dorsey & Whitney Adds Former Federal Prosecutor

    Former Green Beret and federal prosecutor William Michael has signed on as a partner in the Trial Group at Dorsey & Whitney LLP’s Minneapolis office.

  • October 6, 2006

    Circuit Ct. Remands Bankruptcy Auction Antitrust Suit

    A U.S. appeals court panel has sent a case involving the hot rolled coil industry back to district court, where a judge will decide whether Nucor Corp. violated antitrust laws by outbidding Gulf States Reorganization Group Inc. in a bankruptcy auction.

  • October 6, 2006

    Small Internet Firm Wins $8.5M In Patent, Antitrust Suit

    A federal jury has awarded $8.5 million to a small Internet technology company after it proved a rival violated its patent and lied to customers about selling their personal information.

  • October 5, 2006

    Hearings Begin In Motorola Trade Secrets Lawsuit

    A drawn-out trade secrets case against Motorola Inc. got underway Thursday in Florida county court, more than three years after a tiny start-up accused the communications giant of stealing GPS technology worth billions of dollars.

  • October 5, 2006

    Former Prosecutor Pleads Guilty In Client Stock Scam

    A former U.S. attorney agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to federal charges for conspiracy to launder $1.3 million in an e-mail stock scam.

  • October 5, 2006

    HMO Hauled To Court Over Patient Bias Scheme

    Prosecutors took health maintenance organization Amerigroup Corp. and its Chicago-based subsidiary, Amerigroup Illinois, to federal court on Wednesday, charging them with bilking millions of taxpayer dollars while denying care to pregnant women and the seriously ill in a bid to pocket higher profits.

  • October 5, 2006

    Appeals Court Bats Down Nurse’s Latex Glove Claim

    A federal appeals court has denied a Louisiana nurse’s attempt to combine a battery action against her hospital employer with a product liability case against manufacturers of latex gloves that triggered an allergic reaction.

  • October 5, 2006

    Incensed, Nurses Slam Landmark NLRB Ruling

    Registered nurses and labor activists vowed to strike if employers attempted to take advantage of the National Labor Relations Board’s decision Tuesday that full-time "charge nurses" should be considered supervisors, rendering them ineligible for union protections under federal law.

  • October 4, 2006

    Court Rejects State Farm's Bid To Stop Depositions

    A federal judge has rejected a request by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. that four employees, two of whom are targets of a criminal probe into the company’s handling of Hurricane Katrina-related claims, not be deposed in a civil suit because the employees would risk incriminating themselves by testifying.

  • October 4, 2006

    Citigroup Wins Decision In Bonus Plan Class Action

    Citigroup Inc. has won its appeal to have a lawsuit alleging its Capital Accumulation Plan violated the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act dismissed.

  • October 4, 2006

    Wyeth Found Liable In Hormone Replacement Trial

    After six days of deliberations, jurors in the first state court trial over Wyeth’s hormone replacement therapy drugs finally reached a decision on Wednesday, finding that Prempro was a cause of a woman's breast cancer and ordering the drug maker to shell out $1 million in compensatory damages.

  • October 4, 2006

    Kentucky River Ruling Incites Union Fury

    In a long-awaited decision that has labor unions up in arms, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled in the so-called Kentucky River cases that full-time "charge nurses" should be considered supervisors, rendering them ineligible for union protections under federal law.

  • October 3, 2006

    High Court Passes On American HomePatient Case

    Ending years of fighting, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up the appeal of American HomePatient Inc.’s debt holders, letting the health care company’s confirmed reorganization plan stand.

  • October 3, 2006

    Antitrust Suits Piling Up For Clear Channel

    Clear Channel Communications Inc. has been slapped with another lawsuit accusing the entertainment giant of boosting concert ticket prices by preventing competition for concert promotion services nationwide.

  • October 3, 2006

    Law Firm Profile: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

    Practitioners in the labor and employment practice at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC are by no means averse to the courtroom, but they also believe that keeping employers abreast of the ever-changing multitude of federal and state employment laws is one of the most effective tools to assist clients.

  • October 3, 2006

    Alza Drops Patent Suit Over ADHD Drug

    Pharmaceutical firm Alza Corp., a unit of Johnson & Johnson, dropped its patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against generic drug maker Impax Laboratories Inc. over Alza’s treatment for attention deficit disorder.

  • October 3, 2006

    Embattled Winn-Dixie Hit With Employment Suit

    Adding to Winn-Dixie Inc.’s troubles, a former employee has slapped the bankrupt supermarket chain with a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay proper overtime wages.

  • October 3, 2006

    Ex-AIG Chief Granted Access To Memos

    The former chief executive of insurance giant American International Group Inc. will get the chance to see the confidential memos that have become an integral part of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s case against him.

  • October 2, 2006

    Patent Holder Says Italian Co. Stole His Invention

    A Nevada corporation and a patent holder are suing an Italian company, saying the company and two of its officers stole from an invention that allows consumers to dispense capsules into a container.

  • October 2, 2006

    Law Firm Profile: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

    When the labor and employment practice of Los Angeles law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP accepts a major case, all parties involved know the firm plans to tackle the matter with the utmost urgency, according to William “Bill” J. Kilberg, who heads up the firm’s labor and employment practice.