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New York - March, 2009

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• 1-800-Mattress Secures DIP Financing From Sleepy's
• ERISA Case Dismissed In Avon Securities MDL
• Reed Smith Cuts 100; Robinson & Cole Lays Off 30
• Consist Can't Sue Over Trademarks: 2nd Circ.
• Securities Suit V. Axonyx Over Alzheimer's Drug Nixed
• Antitrust Counterclaim V. Xerox Tossed In Patent Suit
• Schering Sales Reps Not Exempt Under FLSA: Judge
• Antitrust Suit Against Fragomen Thrown Out
• Vivendi's Bid To Reconsider Class Cert. Denied
• Adapting Private Business To Climate Change
• Wachovia, Citi To Buy Back $4.7B In Calif. ARS Deal
• Shutting Down Phantom Counterfeiters
• Insurer Told To Pay Defense In Organ Harvesting Case
• Hedge Fund Suit Against Citigroup Over Trading Nixed
• Judge Bails From Abercrombie OT Class Action
• ARS Cases Against UBS Tossed
• Delphi To Sell Brakes Biz To Chinese Co. For $100M
• What's Next For EFCA?
• Cabbies Sue Boston To Change Hybrid Taxi Rule
• Claims Cut In Suit Over AIG Workers' Comp Premiums
• Ex-Foley Hoag Employment Chair Joins Seyfarth
• Merchants Launch Campaign V. Interchange Fees
• Judge Backs Arbitration Award For Hurt NFL Players
• High Court Mulls Ch. 11 Judges' Power To Bar Suits
• Fidelity Strikes Deal Over Calif. Kickback Claims
• Charter Defaulted On Credit Facility: JPMorgan
• Nortel Gets Go-Ahead To Sell Business Unit
• Abercrombie Plaintiff Seeks Recusal In FLSA Suit
• Class Cert. Denied In Tying Suit Against AmEx
• GM, Chrysler May Need Bankruptcy To Survive: Obama
• Dem Presses Fed, BofA For Merrill Bonus Details
• Claim Deficiencies Doom Shareholders Suit V. Ramp
• 200 Laid Off From Fried Frank, Stroock, Manatt
• Tronox Creditors Seek To Dissolve Equity Committee
• Milberg Attorney Joins Canadian Class Action Firm
• Credit Problems Grow For Cash-Poor Crusader Energy
• Skadden, Gibson Dunn, Frost Brown Lay Off Staffers
• Dancer, Printers Settle With SEC Over Trading Scam
• Bank Loses Bid To Use MFN Status In Enron Suit
• Miracle-Gro Maker Handed Setback In Insurance Suit
• AIG Smacked With Shareholder Action Over Payouts
• Ohio Rep. Pushes Tax Credits For CERCLA Cleanups
• Alleged Ponzi Scheme Victims Sue BofA, MF Global
• Claims Cut From Suit Over Railcar Explosion
• Lawyers Could Face Madoff Liability Claims
• Asian-American Police Win Bias Suit V. Port Authority
• Charter Seeks To Protect Workers In Face Of Ch. 11
• JP Morgan, Western Gas Strike Deal In Antitrust MDL
• BMS To Pay $2.1M To Settle FTC's Plavix Claims
• Miller Canfield To Link Up With Gaertner Tobin
• Lloyd's, Cooke Told To Arbitrate Asbestos Claims Suit
• Merck, Gnosis Settle Vitamin False Marketing Case
• ING, Others Sue Ailing Freescale Over $1B In Loans
• Lawyer Layoffs Reported At 3 Firms
• Lilly Loses Round Over Depositions In Zyprexa MDL
• Merisant Unsecured Creditors Pick Winston, Ashby
• 9th Circ. Revives Suit Against Gap Over Work Wear
• Lyondell Execs Escape Investor Suit Over Merger
• Most Stores Can't Trace Food To Its Source: Report
• Covington Lands Ex-Homeland Security Chief Chertoff
• Record Cos.' Suit V. Playlist Stays In NY: Judge
• Fox Rothschild Snaps Up Pastore Osterberg
• Judge OKs $4.3M Settlement In B&H Race Bias Suit
• Holocaust Insurance Plaintiffs' Lawyers Awarded $3M
• Madison Square Garden, NHL Settle Antitrust Suit
• BofA, Others Duped By Dealer In $88M Art Scam: DA
• Liberty Surplus Seeks OK To Ax Lyondell Coverage
• AMA Implicates Wellpoint In Price-Fixing Plot
• ING Hit With 3rd Shareholder Class Action
• SEC Claims Over Unregistered Offering Survive
• Louis Vuitton, Dooney Settle S-Lock Trademark Suit
• $100M In Dreier Assets Found, But Most Spent: Report
• GE Seeks To Get Hudson Cleanup Suit Tossed
• Lilly Can't Depose Mont. Docs In Zyprexa Suit: Judge
• Amex Assurance Settles Radiologist's RICO Suit
• Tempur-Pedic Sues Sealy Over Pillow Patents
• Ex-Morgan Stanley Exec Convicted In Kickback Scam
• Filene's Hit With Fine In Suit Over Fake Fendi Bags
• Bill Aims To Get Treasury To Back Municipal Bonds
• Star Tribune Tries To Ditch Direct-Mail Assets
• Operation Wooden Nickel Leads To Another Judgment
• Morgan Stanley To Pay $7M Over FINRA Charges
• Tronox Equity Committee Calls On Pillsbury Winthrop
• Municipalities In Ch. 9: Rejecting Labor Agreements
• Flip Camcorder Maker, Patent Co. Resolve IP Spat
• NJ Court Reverses Forum Rulings In Insurance Cases
• Couple Sue Lehman To Get Back $1.5M In Collateral
• Blank Rome Doesn't Owe Recruiter Merger Fee: Court
• Facing Eviction, Transmeridian Files For Ch. 11
• Saul Ewing Lays Off 7 Lawyers, 7 Staff
• IP Partners Leave Lahive For McCarter & English
• Deloitte To Buy Largest BearingPoint Unit For $350M
• 1-800-Mattress Files Ch. 11 To Avoid Liquidation
• Judge Tosses Bulk Of Securities Suit V. Mayer Brown
• UNITE Splinter Group Joins Forces With SEIU
• NY Court Revives Workers' Silica Inhalation Suits
• Over $1B Of Madoff's Assets Accounted For: Trustee
• For Insurers, MTBE Could Be 'New Asbestos'
• Airlines Come Out Against Alliance Oversight Bill
• Colo. Holds Off On Sex-Rating Ban For Health Insurers
• Challenges In RIF Analyses
• Ch. 15 In Practice: Fogerty V. Condor
• Geithner Wants Wind-Down Authority Over Nonbanks
• BofA Investor Fights To Sack CEO Over Merrill Deal
• $60B Citigroup Case Remanded Despite Atty Mistake
• GM-Delphi Deal Put On Hold For Treasury Review
• Chesapeake Gets Go-Ahead For Sale To PE Firms
• State Probes To Continue Despite AIG Bonus Return
• Most Of ERISA Securities Case V. Pfizer Moves Ahead
• Hospital Challenges Wash. Elective Angioplasty Rules
• Fired S&P Exec Files $20M Sex Bias Suit
• WolfBlock Votes To Liquidate Amid Economic Crisis
• Tafas V. Doll — Round II: 1 Down, 3 To Go
• NY Insurance Head Seeks Life Settlements Regulation
• Ignore Climate Change At Your Peril
• WilmerHale Adds Securities Partner From Citigroup
• Rival Insurers' Competition Claims Are Bunk: AIG
• No Easy Path For Renewable Energy
• Developers Push For Ruling On $105M Lehman Loan
• Mich. Named Lead Plaintiff In AIG Securities Suit
• Hogan Denies Conflict Of Interest In IP Suit
• Covington Nabs Another Former DOJ Antitrust Head
• RECs In Secured Transactions Under Calif. Law
• McGuireWoods To Grow Globally With GMR Merger
• NextCard Prevails Over Chat Co. In Tech Patent Suit
• Conseco Common Stock Investors Win Class Status
• Next Steps For The Energy Sector's Stimulus
• AIG, Countrywide File Competing Fraud Suits
• Managing Rumors, Maintaining Communication
• Implications Of Pacific Bell V. LinkLine
• Source Interlink, Hudson Settle Antitrust Suit
• State AGs Join Call For AIG Bonus Details
• Social Networking Spurs Firms To Log On Or Lose Out
• Super Gets 3 Years For Illegal Hiring At Meat Plant
• Judge Combines Slew Of ERISA Actions Against AIG
• Obama Names Picks For Energy, Labor Posts
• EPA Reports Decline In Toxic Chemical Releases
• $40M Frontier Financing Deal Gets Green Light
• Monaco Coach Can Tap $73M In Cash Collateral
• Chemtura Wins Access To $190M In DIP Cash
• Madoff To Stay Behind Bars Until Sentenced: 2nd Circ.
• Insurer Off Hook For $20M WTC Shops Claim: Court
• Lenox To Exit Ch. 11, Regroup After $100M Sale
• Low Demand, High Costs Led To Ch. 11: Chemtura
• ITC Eyes Kodak Cameras Over Samsung IP Claims
• Forever 21 Told To Produce Docs In Copyright Suit
• Constellation, PPL Settle Emissions Contract Spat
• Clear Channel Cut From Business Model Antitrust Suit
• Regulating Conn. Private Investment Funds
• K&L Gates Snags Synthon VP, General Counsel
• Partners Gulp As Clifford Chance Votes To Scale Back
• Energy West Sues US Power Fund Over Loan Deal
• SEC, Cuomo Accuse 2 Of Pension Kickback Scheme
• House Approves Steep TARP Bonus Tax
• Quinn Emanuel Adds Derivative Transactions Guru
• Case Study: SEC V. Collins & Aikman Corp.
• Creditors Seek to Liquidate 1-800-Mattress In Ch. 7
• Madoff Accountant Arrested On Fraud Charges
• 2nd Circ. Eyes Fees In $22M Modeling Antitrust Case
• Ushering In Renewable Energy, Transmission Projects
• Adversary Proceedings Continue To Drop: Report
• Mayer Brown Escapes Refco Securities Fraud Action
• Shell Slams Witness List In Nigerian Torture Trial
• 21 Club Served Up FLSA Suit Over Tips, Overtime
• 2nd Circ. Sends Back Tiff Over NASD-NYSE Merger
• Clear Channel Accused Of Taxi Ad Monopoly In NYC
• AIG CEO Defends Bonuses In House Hearing
• Amex On Hook For Ex-CEO's Legal Bills
• Employment Suits Dropped In 2008: Report
• AIG May Not Be 'Too Big To Fail' After All: Experts
• 33 Claims Tossed In Vivendi Shareholder Suit
• Nuvio Becomes 4th To Exit VoxPath VoIP Patent Spat
• Tecumseh To Disgorge $7.3M To Settle With SEC
• IP Suits Continue Downward Trend In 2008: Report
• A Closer Look At In Re National Gas Distributors
• Proposed Amendments To DGCL
• The Expansion Of Whistleblower Protections
• Baker Hostetler Nabs New Partner For Madoff Team
• Welch Allyn Pulls Defibrillators Over Low Shock Issues
• Dickstein Shapiro Scores Former Constellation GC
• JPMorgan Wins Injunction V. Morgan & Finnegan
• Obama Moves To Bolster Food Safety Oversight
• Louis Vuitton S-Lock Trademark Suit Gets Green Light
• District Court Rejects Challenge To Lehman Sale
• Frontier Airlines Moves To Ground Pilots' 401(k) Match
• Star Tribune, Union Agree To Tentative CBA Changes
• Disgraced Dreier Hit With Money Laundering Charge
• Judge Nixes Lead Satyam Securities Plaintiffs
• Credit Default Swaps In The Crosshairs
• Dura To Williams: Loss Causation Threshold
• 'Family Guy' Scores Win In Disney Copyright Suit
• Morgan & Finnegan Files For Ch. 7
• The Widening Reach Of Securities Regulators
• Ex-Bayou Exec Pleads Guilty To Fleeing
• Penalties Urged For AIG's Post-Bailout Bonuses
• Court Dismisses Criminal Charges V. Lehman Judge
• Payoffs Don't Preclude FERC License: DC Circ.
• Drug Cos. Hid SSRI Risks, Paid Docs Kickbacks: Suit
• Plaintiff Seeks Lead Status In Subprime Suit V. RBS
• Retailers Add State Claims To Webkinz Antitrust MDL
• Shire Sues Barr Over Kidney Drug ANDA
• NY Court Will Hear Del Monte Licensees' Turf Spat
• Ex-Vivendi Execs Must Face Securities Claims
• Marathon Challenges Order Protecting Lyondell Parent
• Key Debt Holder Pushes Six Flags Closer To Ch. 11
• EPA To Ax Voluntary Green Program
• BearingPoint Legal Team Tentatively Approved
• Locke Lord Lands Akin Gump Energy Guru
• We'll Stop AIG Bonuses By Any Legal Means: Obama
• DataTern, Martha Stewart Settle Database Patent Row
• Kodak Asks Court To Sanction Attys Over Bid For Fees
• Schumer Gets Fired Up Over High NY Power Rates
• US Energy Sale Of Landfill Gas Stake Approved
• MedQuist, SEC Settle; Execs Still On Hook For Fraud
• Class Status Bid Denied In Imax Securities Action
• Cox Struck With Antitrust Suit Over Cable Boxes
• IPhone Resellers' Antitrust Suit Enters Dead Zone
• Tetris Sues Rival Online Block Game 'Blockles'
• Satyam Securities Cases Consolidated
• Lehman Wins Bid To Inject $325M Into Loan Servicer
• Judge Rejects 'Novel' Bid To Sue IPO Underwriters
• Hedge Fund Reps Took Broker-Dealer Bribes: SEC
• Electrode Co. Tweaks Claims In Antitrust Suit
• Delphi Unit Settles With EPA Over Chlorine Spill
• Madoff Bail Was 'Do Or Die' Under Widening Probe
• Milbank Snags Munger Bankruptcy Pro
• Debt-Ridden Six Flags On Brink Of Bankruptcy
• Madoff Pleads Guilty; Judge Revokes Bail
• Reddy Ice Spent $15 Million On Antitrust Defense In 08
• 6th Circ. Nixes $10M In Damages V. New York Life
• FASB Chair Has 3 Weeks To Tweak Mark-To-Market
• Investors Sue Lehman Unit, Others Over Minibonds
• DOJ Asks Court To Wrap Up Suit Over $52B InBev Deal
• Delphi Can Dump Retiree Benefits: Court
• Samsun Files For Ch. 15 As Shipping Market Declines
• Ditching Deadweight Partners Can Buoy Firms: Expert
• Swedish Shipper Fined $1M In Illegal Dumping Case
• AP, Artist Wrangle Over Obama 'Hope' Image
• Number Of Subprime Suits 'Historic' At 576: Report
• Merrill Pays $7M To Settle Squawk Box Charges
• Novartis Unit Settles Shareholder Action For $30M
• Lyondell Creditors Seek Records From Basell Merger
• Oxycodone Method Obvious: Fed Circ.
• Merrill Hid Bonus Payout Info From Congress: Cuomo
• Proposed Bill Would Make Restaurants Post Calories
• Obama Picks Public Health Expert To Head FDA
• Ecuador Lawyers Accuse Chevron Of 'Delay Tactics'
• Nonequity Spots May Entice Lateral Partners: Experts
• Ethanol Cap For Gasoline May Be Raised To 12%
• Madoff To Cop To Charges Without Plea Deal
• Satyam Plaintiffs Move To Consolidate Suits
• Chadbourne Scores Time Warner Chief Patent Counsel
• Co-Lead Plaintiffs OK'd In Subprime Suit V. Citi
• Nokia, InterDigital Patent Spat Kicked Back To ITC
• Dems Push For Federal Financial Products Watchdog
• AIG To Spin Off Property Casualty Operations
• FINRA Fines Broker For Short-Selling Violations
• Ex-Prosecutor Joins Up With Nixon Defense Team
• Lehman Ch. 11 Yields $40M Payout For Firms
• Judge Tosses Cintas' RICO Claims Against Unions
• ITC Rules For Pass & Seymour, Bars Electrical Parts
• Bid To Reopen Trade Secret Suit V. Fujitsu Denied
• SEC May Reinstate Rule Reining In Short-Selling
• NYSE Proposes Rule Change To Limit Vendor Liability
• Dr. Reddy's Generic Doesn't Infringe Prilosec: Judge
• Barclays To Top NYSE Traders With Bear Wagner Buy
• Madoff Trustee OKs Payouts To 12 Investors
• American Electric Cut, Dynegy Kept In Wis. Gas MDL
• Debtor V. Debtor: Limits On Claims Discharge
• News Group, Source Interlink Settle Antitrust Spat
• NY Hospital, Nurses Settle Antitrust Suit For $1.25M
• Ex-National Century Exec Drops Claims V. JPMorgan
• Lowenstein Sandler To Rep Star Tribune Creditors
• Katten Launches Insurance Capital Markets Group
• NYSIF Head Steps Down Amid Controversy
• Lehman Bros. Backs Converting Swiss Unit To Ch. 15
• High Court Won't Hear Apotex Appeal Over Prilosec
• Cuomo, Frank Demand Bonus Details From BofA
• ITC Probing Ergonomic Keyboard Support Complaint
• Still Divisive: PSLRA Discovery Stay
• Google, Klausner Settle Visual Voice Mail Patent Suit
• Obama Kills Bush-Style 'Signing Statements'
• Low On Fuel, RV Maker Monaco Coach Files For Ch. 11
• O'Melveny Lands Lehman Vet
• Judge OKs $6M DIP Loan For Tarragon
• UnitedHealth Wants Insurers To Foot $400M Bill
• US Charges 2 Men In KBR Nigerian Bribe Case
• McGuireWoods Cuts Salaries For New Associates
• Fed. Circ. Rulings Shake Up IP Landscape
• Financial Crisis Litigation Wave Forming Its Crest
• Cornell Med School Settles NIH Fraud Suit For $2.6M
• Frontier Pushes For $10M More In DIP Cash
• Repealing Leegin Could Harm Consumers: Experts
• Tobacco Cos. Win Dismissal Of Medicare Tax Spat
• NY Dems Angling To Regulate Energy Again
• UK Regulators Turn In Light Touch For Strong Arm
• 2nd Circ. Remands $15.6M Claims Award V. Delta
• Northeast Biofuels Sued For Trying To Withdraw $8M
• Madoff Closing In On Deal With Federal Prosecutors
• Judge Rejects Sanctions For WVa In Zyprexa MDL
• How To Try A Patent Case On A Budget ... And Win
• Former Brobeck Chairman Joins Howard Rice
• Creditor Elliott Seeks Bigger Role In Lehman Hedging
• Lawyer Layoffs Topped 1,000 In February
• Conn. Objects To Newspaper's Exec Bonus Plan
• Merrill Says Deutsche Bank Poached Financial Group
• NY Court Nixes Global Reinsurance Antitrust Suit
• 2 More Settle In Source Interlink Antitrust Suit
• Troopers Hit NJ With Age Discrimination Suit
• NY AG Strikes Deals With 2 More Insurers
• No Class Cert. In Title VII Suit V. Interstate Bakeries
• Garbage Cos. Look To Bar Atty From Antitrust Suit
• Momentum Builds For Federal Risk Regulator
• Grace Can Seek Cleanup Costs From Zotos: 2nd Circ.
• Domino's Settles FLSA Class Action
• Shareholder Suit V. PXRE Over Katrina Losses Nixed
• UBS Must Turn Over Madoff Docs: Luxembourg Court
• House Revisits Bill To Add Wind Coverage To NFIP
• Union Cries Foul On Star Tribune's Move To Nix CBA
• AIG Blasts Former CEO Over Fraud Claims
• What Is Happening With AIG?
• E-Discovery In The Months Ahead
• Nautilus Cries Fraud In Heart Rate Monitor Patent Spat
• 2 Insurers Found Not Liable For Refco D&O Claims
• 14 Firms Settle Illegal Trading Charges For $70M
• Benefits Broker, Conn. Settle Over Insurer Kickbacks
• NY Seeks Private Buyer For Insolvent Insurer Midland
• Ex-Gen Re VP Gets 1 Year In $600M AIG Fraud Case
• Starr Fails To Get AIG Counterclaim Tossed
• Judge OKs $20M Stock Deal In Parmalat Fraud Case
• Lyondell Sues To Halt Collection From French Units
• Slow Death Of Section 2 Of The Sherman Act
• Executive Compensation Limits Not Part Of TALF
• Pershing Clients Want Funds Freed In Stanford Case
• Class Seeks OK For $10M Deal With PNC Unit
• Judge Scolds SEC Over Collins & Aikman Filings
• Wells Fargo's Bid For Enviro Damage Coverage Nixed
• Lehman, MetLife Settle Over $1B In Defaulted Notes
• Texas Co. Drops IAC From IP Spat Over Online Ads
• Saul Ewing Beefs Up L&E Group With Boutique Hires
• Enmex Fires Back At Tesoro With $2B Breach Claim
• Gay Rights Group Challenges Defense Of Marriage Act
• AIG Sues IRS Days Before Feds Pony Up $30B More
• $1.2B In Red, Brazilian Beef Co. Files For Ch. 15
• Lyondell Chemical's $8B DIP Package Approved
• SEC Seeks Final Judgment In Westar Fraud Case
• Amid Tough Times, Furloughs Can Save Money, Jobs
• Disney Fires Back In 'Little Miss' T-Shirt Dispute
• High Court Takes On Database Copyright Case
• DTT Denied Interlocutory Appeal In Parmalat Case
• AIG Faces Another Blow As Ex-CEO Sues For Fraud
• McKool Smith Scores 2 White Collar Litigation Vets