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Texas - September, 2009

189 articles

• Stanford Blocked From $90M Defense Stash
• Former FCC Chairman Martin Joins Patton Boggs
• Proskauer Evades Securities Claim In Tax Shelter Suit
• Formosa Reaches $12.8M PVC Deal
• Saxon, RIM Resolve ITC Wireless Patent Dispute
• Auxilium Wins Bid To Toss Most Of FLSA, Bias Suit
• Saxon Sues Panasonic Over Communications Patents
• Govs. Call For Strong Biologic Data Protection
• 5th Circ. Revises Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy
• GE Delivery Drivers Found To Be Exempt From FLSA
• Ice Patent Dispute Isn't Antitrust Issue: Reddy
• SEC Seeks $25M From Ex-NFLer's Investment Partner
• Most Claims Survive In MetroPCS, Virgin Mobile Spat
• Voter Group Asks DOJ To Investigate Diebold Sale
• Microsoft, Ergonomic Mouse Inventor Drop Claims
• 2nd Circ. Questions Due Process In Azerbaijan Oil Suit
• Bosses Can Be Sued For Discrimination: Vt. Top Court
• 5th Circ. Upholds City Of Houston's Billboard Code
• Dell Settlement Gets OK In Shareholder Derivative Suit
• La. Citizens Can't Sue To Clean Groundwater: Exxon
• Sony Dropped From Laptop Transmission Patent Suit
• Q&A With Troutman Sanders' Jim Wheaton
• Yahoo Exits GraphOn Web Listing Patent Dispute
• Uncertain Future For Maine Minor Marketing Laws
• Former Enron Broadband Exec Gets 16 Months
• BofA-Merrill Buyout Battle Gets Under Way
• Typhoon Appeals Loss In Touch-Screen Patent Suit
• Clear With Computers, Masco Settle Sales Patent Suit
• Ex-NFLer To Disgorge $19M Over SEC Fraud Claims
• Genesis Biosystems Sues Over Liposuction Patent
• Peak Energy Sues Chesapeake Over $29M Oil Deal
• Novelis Transfer Infringed Software License: 6th Circ.
• Alcatel-Lucent Patent Suit Targets Sears, Amazon
• Q&A With Baker Botts' Macey Stokes
• Bermuda, Florida Insurance Regulators Forge Deal
• Spansion Japan Plundered By US Affiliate: Creditors
• Jury Hands Western Union $16M In E-Payment IP Suit
• Stanford Bids To Protect Assets In Fraud Case
• Judge Urges Rejection Of New Sterlite Bid For Asarco
• Thompson Cut From Ennova Flash Drive Patent Suit
• Enterasys, Extreme Settle Fenner Ethernet IP Suit
• Nintendo, Accton, SMC Settle CSIRO Wi-Fi Patent Spat
• SEC Hires Policy Adviser For New Risk Division
• Apple, Amazon Out Of Actus' Patent Battle
• SEC Hits Perot Investor With Insider Trading Suit
• Stop Investigator Depositions In Citgo Spill: Feds
• Katrina Trailer Plaintiffs Slam Gov't Contractor Defense
• Fla. Toxic Tort Suits To Proceed Without Crescent
• Disney, Apple, Others Hit With Messaging Patent Suit
• AA Wants Yahoo Sanctioned $1.2M In Keyword Suit
• Typhoon Ends Touch Patent Suit Against Apple, Dell
• EMG, Continental Ask Court To Quash Patent Claims
• Hart Seeks To Undo Diebold Sale Until Suit Resolved
• Dish Network To Offer $300M In Debt Securities
• 'Patent Troll Tracker' Lawsuit Ends In Settlement
• Gilbert Lures Insurance Lawyer Back From Dickstein
• Mannatech, Rival Settle Supplement Patent Spat
• Storm Wants $1M Fee Dispute Heard In Federal Court
• SandRidge Strikes $230M Deal To Acquire Crusader
• ReedHycalog, United Diamond Settle Drill Bit Battle
• Wyeth, Cordis Sue Abbott, Boston Sci Over Stent
• Hayes Lemmerz Creditors Call Asset Sale 'Premature'
• US Awards $550M In New Renewable Energy Grants
• AMR To Offer 30M In Stock, $250M In Debt Securities
• Sterlite Sweetens Asarco Bid With $8B Grupo Release
• Asbestos Plaintiff Asks Court To Sanction Lucent
• New Capital And Surplus Minimums For Texas Insurers
• Life Tech Sues Biosearch Tech Over Assay Patents
• Dell Ramps Up IT Services With $4B Perot Acquisition
• Oracle Thwarted On New Claims In SAP Saga
• Energy Transfer To Pay $30M To End FERC Action
• Sec. 1111(b) And Commercial Real Estate Cases
• Challenges In Effective Insider Trading Compliance
• Asarco Agrees To $1 Sale Of Contaminated NJ Site
• The Nationwide Recovery Audit Contractor Program
• Crucible Ch. 11 Plan Faces Tax, Union Objections
• Acacia, AGFA Drop Imaging Patent Suit
• Ex-Stanford Exec Pleads Not Guilty To Shredding Docs
• Fed. Circ. Grants Nalco Stay In Baker Hughes Spat
• Judge OKs Energy Partners' Ch. 11 Plan, Again
• Rival Says Nestle's Buitoni Slogan Infringes Trademark
• Alleged Texas Oil Fraudster To Pay More Than $1.2M
• DOJ Can't Maintain Charges Against BP Traders
• Actus Inks More Deals In Payment Method Patent Suit
• Pantech Wireless Resolves Traffic System Patent Suit
• Stay Upheld In ATI Patent Suit V. Major Automakers
• Star Receiver Goes For Brokers Over Commissions
• Zions Launches Stock, Note Capital-Raising Effort
• Apple, Ticketmaster Latest Targets Of TQP Patent Suit
• Antor Says Circuit City Disclosure Ignores Patent Suit
• American Airlines Shores Up $2.9 Billion In Funds
• Trigeant Targets Venezuelan Oil Co. Over Monopoly
• Ex-McAfee GC Says Co. Scapegoated Him
• Canrig Sues Omron, Helmerich Over Oil Drill Patent
• SEC Creates New Risk Division Headed By Law Prof.
• Q&A With Haynes and Boone's Lynne Liberato
• Ex-Foley Clients Add Claims To Contract Suit Over IP
• The Evolution Of Legal Infrastructure For CCS
• KBR Worker's Rape Case Not Arbitrable: 5th Circ.
• Defendants Win Bid To Toss CSX Asbestos Fraud Suit
• Antitrust MDL Over Packaged Ice Heats Up
• House Panel On Board With Railroad Antitrust Bill
• Balthaser Online Patent Suit Split Between 2 Courts
• Judge Stands By 'Greedy, Arrogant Hogs' Remark
• FITI Settles Commerce's Export Allegations
• JBS Buys Pilgrim's Pride Stake For $800M
• Flying J Pipeline Investors Reduce Claim To $192M
• Thermon Subsidiaries Fined Over Heat Tracing Exports
• SEC Drills Into Alleged Oil And Gas Fraud
• Huntsman, Economy Hasten Push For Closing Clarity
• Reps Join Push To Reopen CVS Caremark Probe
• Parallel Petroleum Agrees To $483M Buyout By Apollo
• Darling, Valero Plan Biodiesel Joint Venture
• Public Defender To Rep Stanford In Fraud Case
• Enviro Groups Hit FEMA On Flood Insurance In NM
• $915M Nortel-Avaya Deal A Security Risk: Verizon
• Stanford Insurers, Trust Co. Face $80M Investor Suit
• Schering-Plough, Merck Seek To Toss Vytorin Suit
• Motorola Dropped From Premier Playlist Patent Suit
• PalTalk Sues Sony Over Interactive Gaming Patents
• Canadian Court Favors US Receiver In Stanford Case
• Solis Pledges OSHA Enforcement, EFCA Support
• Asarco To Sell Perth Amboy Cleanup Site For $5M
• Don't Lift Crescent Stay In Toxic Torts Suits: Siemens
• ICS, Sony Settle Volume Control Patent Suit
• CA To Pick Up NetQoS For $200M In Cash
• SBJ, Overstock Settle Custom Web Page Patent Spat
• Lloyd's Bridles At D&O Claims In Stanford Fraud Suit
• ITC Launches Probe Of Funai, Vizio Displays
• Victims Accuse Toyota Of Hiding Rollover Evidence
• Sterlite Increases Bid To $2.6B In War For Asarco
• Arnold & Porter Cuts 44 Staff Members
• Lutron, Neptun Settle ITC Dimmer Switch Patent Spat
• Dell Settles PACid Encryption Patent Suit
• Q&A With Foley & Lardner's David Goroff
• Stanford Security Exec Indicted For Shredding Docs
• Mondis, LG Settle Computer Monitor Patent Suit
• Samsung Resolves Traffic System Patent Claims
• Stanford Victims Pillory Receiver, Call For Ch.11
• TXCO Gets OK To Transfer Oil Exploration Rights
• Madoff Judge Heading To 2nd Circ.: Sen. Schumer
• Yahoo, Premier Settle Playlist Patent Dispute
• CSIRO Hits Sony, Acer With New WiLAN Patent Suits
• Sony Ericsson Settles With Aloft, Stragent
• Titan Wealth, SEC Settle $3M Fraud Suit
• China Subsidizes Drill Pipe Producers: ITA
• Pennzoil Loses Indemnity Spat Over Pollution Events
• I4i Hits Back At Microsoft In Patent Battle Over Word
• Ex-JDA Exec Fined For Insider Trading Over I2 Deal
• The Closing Bell For Business Method Patents?
• Sonnenschein Axes Another 30 Lawyers
• TXCO Mineral Lien Holders Object To Rights Transfer
• Google Makes Peace With Aloft, Stragent In IP Suits
• WaMu Seeks OK To Sell Goldman $15M Wind Portfolio
• Saxon Trims ITC Patent Case Against Palm, Samsung
• EEOC Serves Up Retaliation Suit Against Sara Lee
• Milk MDL Plaintiffs Say Defendants Didn't Sink Farms
• Q&A With Haynes & Boone's Jeff Civins
• $200M Dish Network Sanctions Added To TiVo Award
• Chevron Wants Broader Probe In $27B Ecuador Suit
• Revealing The CSB's Evolution And Future
• Importers Fired Up Over Duties On Chinese Furniture
• Fortinet Sued Over Patent For Antivirus Software
• TXCO Seeks to Transfer Texas Oil Exploration Rights
• Purdue, Texas Best Settle $5M Military Rations Suit
• Microsoft Wins Stay In $290M Word Patent Fight
• Paice Asks ITC To Investigate Toyota Over Hybrid Cars
• Eon, American Messaging Settle Telecom Patent Spat
• Sun Investors Say SEC Suit Running Co. Into Ground
• NextCard, HSBC Settle IP Feud Over Online Credit
• Investor Hits Proskauer With Suit Over Tax Shelter
• Quanta To Bag Price Gregory For $350M
• JBS Aims To Take Over Pilgrim's Pride For $2.5B
• Palm, Pisces Energy Driven To Ch. 11 By Hurricanes
• Haynes & Boone Lands SEC Heavyweight
• Bankruptcy Judge Signs Off On CDX Deal With Holdout
• Vioxx Litigation Group Keeps Up Protest Over Fee Cap
• Funai Sues Customs To Keep Banned DTVs Out Of US
• Stanford Receiver, SEC Clash Over $27.5M Fee Bid
• DGC Withdraws Electronic-Records Patent Suit
• Haynes & Boone Scores Jackson Walker IP Expert
• Grupo Mexico's Asarco Plan Gets Thumbs-Up
• King & Spalding Snags Corporate Atty From Latham
• Insurer Found Not Liable In Printer's Trade Secret Suit
• SanDisk Escapes Premier's IP Infringement Claims
• Mexican Investors Sue Lloyd's Over Stanford Losses
• United Diamond Loses Bid To Escape Drill Patent Suit
• Apache Contract Claim Over Missing Gas Struck Down
• Claims Stripped From Raytheon, Indigo Secrets Spat