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Texas - January, 2008

112 articles

• Sybase Files Lawsuit Over Columnar Database Patent
• Halliburton Assault Case Must Be Arbitrated: Judge
• Samsung, Matsushita Settle Semiconductor Disputes
• Court Upholds $73.9M Award In EchoStar, TiVo Battle
• Army Not Liable For Hurricane Katrina Errors: Judge
• Pacific Lumber Creditors File Reorganization Plan
• Lowe's Home Faces Six FLSA Suits
• DOE Pulls Plug On FutureGen Clean-Coal Plant
• Squire Sanders Snaps Up IP Expert Wayne Jones
• NCAA, Athletes End Antitrust Suit With $18.9M Deal
• Criminal Prosecution Of Off-Label Drug Promotion
• AIG Pays $12.5M To Settle Bid-Rigging Claims
• IP Partner Brings Energy Experience To Bracewell
• Giuliani Drops Out, But Will His Law Firm Suffer?
• Sonnenschein Lures Litigator From Locke Lord
• Bid To Stop ITC Proceedings Tossed In Tessera Suit
• Judge Spurns State's Late Bid For Unclaimed $4.6M
• House Dems Raise Stink Over Formaldehyde Report
• Fujitsu Suit Targets Tellabs' Alleged Infringement
• Legal Industry Growth To Slow In 2008: Report
• Suddenlink Sued Over Video-On-Demand Service
• Evidence Over Qui Tam Pay To Govt. Official Barred
• Visto, RIM Patent Trial Starts Up In The U.K.
• Andersen Partner, SEC Settle Enron Audit Case
• Wal-Mart Cleared Of Sex Offender's Bias Claim
• Financial Co. Is Lawyers' "Puppetmaster": Debtors
• Vague Phrase In Patent Invalidates Claim: Court
• Enron Demands $9M To Cover Settlement Shortfall
• SMDK Brings Patent Suit Against Eight Defendants
• Lord Browne Deposition Limited In BP Explosion Suit
• DOJ OKs Pearson Merger Pending Divestiture
• Asarco Seeks Court OK Of $27.9M Settlement
• LG, Others Sued Over Flash Memory Drive Patent
• District Court Dismisses Tyco Antitrust Suit
• Manufacturer Expands Contaminated Syringe Recall
• Taiwanese Co. Slaps IBM With Infringement Suit
• Samsung Spurs ITC To Probe LCD Infringement Claim
• Retractable's Antitrust, Patent Claims Severed
• Just Ahead Of Patent Hearing, TVS Files For Ch. 11
• McKool Smith To Open IP-Focused NYC Office
• Pacific Lumber Rebuffs Plan For Ch. 11 Trustee
• El Paso Moves To Block Asarco Site Reopening
• Minerva Asserts New Patent Against Apple, Others
• Shell, Pier 1 Face Magnetic-Strip Patent Suit
• Judge Defines E-Mail Patent Claims In Visto Case
• Stoneridge's Effects Felt In Securities Action
• Asarco To Pay $33.4M In Toxic Cleanup Claims
• Tree-Hugging Creditors To Bid For Lumber Co.'s Land
• Energy Trader Tried To Manipulate Market: Jury
• Sinclair Oil Settles Clean Air Act Suit
• Fired Wal-Mart Sex Offender Can't Add Bias Claim
• Asarco Seeks 9th Exclusivity Extension
• How To Prepare For Employees' Subprime Crises
• Lawyer Axed For Not Discriminating In Hiring: Suit
• Trial Begins In Dell's Suit Over Data-Managing Patents
• State Negligence Claim Not Trumped By ERISA: Court
• Plaintiffs Favor State Court For Class Actions: Study
• Judge Blows Away $8.9M Award In Wind Farm Suit
• Starbucks' Bid To Decertify Class Action Fails
• Lawmakers Call For Carbon Offset Marketing Audit
• Google Denies Violating University's Search Patent
• FOIA Changes Could Signal End To Agency Red Tape
• Call Center Workers Hit AT&T With Wage Suit
• No Channel Change For Charter In Patent Spat
• Judge Approves Constellation Patent Settlements
• Delphi Hit By Avalanche Of Objections
• Judge Hints That Rather, CBS Spat May Go Forward
• Bush Taps Baker Botts' Copeland For DOE Post
• Court: Foreign Award Can't Be Challenged In U.S.
• Reviving The Exhaustion Doctrine
• Pacific Lumber Asks To Sell Town School To District
• Dell Gets Sanctions Against Mass Engineered Design
• Southwestern Bell Hit With FLSA Suit
• 11 Cellular Cos. Dismissed From Minerva Patent Suit
• Patent Suit Finds GPS Navigation System Makers
• Asarco Rebuffed In Appeal Over Pension Arbitration
• Hartford Life Suit Not Preempted By ERISA: Judge
• Texas Counties Protest Delphi Chapter 11 Plan
• High Court Puts Brakes On Freight Loading Case
• O2 Micro Seeks To Separate Antitrust, Patent Issues
• Citing "Quandary," Judge Won't Jail Merrill Exec
• Draconian Enforcement Of Calif. Labor Law Continues
• Kodak, Matsushita End Suit With Licensing Pact
• Cellular Cos. Seek Dismissal Of Minerva's Patent Case
• Sony Drops Third-Party Complaint Against Microsemi
• Infringement Probe Of High-Tech Imports To Proceed
• Nabors Industries To Quell Backdating Suit
• NCAA Trial Abandoned As Settlement Nears
• Motorola, Metrologic Settle Lengthy Bar-Code Dispute
• Tronox To Settle Texarkana Toxic Tort
• Oil Co. A Superpolluter, Suit Asserts
• AMD, MicroUnity Call Truce In GPU Patent Spat
• Biax, Fujitsu Make Amends In Patent Dispute
• SouthernLINC Dismissed From Cellular Patent Case
• FEMA's Trailer Headaches Continue To Grow
• Firewall Patent Suit Heating Up In New Year
• Travelers Settles Securities Fraud Case for $77M
• Stand 'N Seal Plaintiffs Win Judge's Support For Trust
• Kinetic Group Sucked Into Suit Over Vacuum Device
• Vizio Reaches Deal In Plasma Display Patent Suit
• AT&T's "Triple Play" A Foul Pitch: Antitrust Suit
• Meat Packers Claim Tyson Shortchanged Them
• Apple Settles Video-On-Demand Patent Spat
• Travelers Cos. Settles Bid-Rigging Claims
• Fewer IP Lawsuits Filed In 2007
• Tyco Fires Back In Containers Case
• Baker Botts Balks At "Baseless" Disqualification Bid
• Sprint Settles With Acacia Unit Over GPS Tracking
• Netflix, E*Trade, Wiley Nabbed In Web Patent Suit
• Pacific Lumber Gives In To Exclusivity Termination
• Vonage Settles Patent Dispute With Nortel
• BP Settles Alaskan Tax Dispute For $379M