December 17, 2015
New LightSquared, a wireless broadband provider that recently emerged from bankruptcy, said Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit with GPS device maker Garmin International in a dispute over both parties' use of wireless spectrum.
December 08, 2015
One day after LightSquared emerged from years of bankruptcy protection, the reorganized wireless broadband company on Tuesday announced a settlement with Deere & Co. to resolve years of contentious litigation over the use of its wireless spectrum.
June 09, 2015
A court-ordered round of settlement talks between LightSquared Inc. and three GPS makers that allegedly drove it into bankruptcy went nowhere, the sides told a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday, with Garmin International Inc. and Deere & Co. keen to tee up summary judgment bids in the potential multibillion-dollar litigation.
February 05, 2015
A New York federal judge on Thursday threw out Harbinger Capital Partners LLC's $1.9 billion fraud complaint accusing three global positioning system makers of driving the hedge fund's wireless startup LightSquared Inc. into bankruptcy, but kept alive some claims from LightSquared itself.
January 20, 2015
Global positioning system players Garmin International Inc., Deere and Co. and Trimble Navigation Ltd. told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday that they bore no contractual obligation to support bankrupt LightSquared Inc.'s ill-fated plan to roll out a broadband wireless network and no duty to disclose their eventual opposition to LightSquared backer Harbinger Capital Partners LLC.
August 04, 2014
Bankrupt LightSquared Inc. blasted Monday Garmin International Inc. and other GPS companies' bid to nix the wireless startup's contract suit over spectrum usage, saying in New York court that their motion to dismiss should be rejected since it relies on factual disputes that can't be resolved at the pleading stage.
May 29, 2014
Garmin International Inc., Deere & Co. and other GPS companies fired back against LightSquared Inc. in New York bankruptcy court Wednesday, countering the wireless startup's allegations that they breached contract and withheld crucial spectrum-usage information.