David Bario

July 17, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Thanks to a precedential appellate decision dealing with fairness considerations in privilege disputes, Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton may be able to escape contempt sanctions for resisting a subpoena in a patent fight between Wi-LAN Inc. and LG Electronics Inc.

By By David Bario

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November 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

The suit accuses the U.S. government of violating AIG shareholders' due process rights and using its 80 percent stake in AIG to "covertly funnel billions of dollars to other preferred financial institutions."

By David Bario

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May 07, 2012 | Law.com

By David Bario

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November 05, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Opponents of patenting human gene sequences were handed a rare court victory when a federal judge refused to dismiss a suit challenging patents for two genes tied to cancers in women.

By David Bario

3 minute read

April 12, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The bombshells just keep coming in Chevron's fraud and racketeering suit against the plaintiffs lawyers trying to enforce a $19 billion environmental judgment against the company. The latest is courtesy of Boulder-based Stratus Consulting, which said in court papers Friday that it authored the supposedly independent damages report on which the Ecuadorian judgment was based.

By David Bario

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April 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

So far Pfizer's lawyers have managed to come out on top in a series of key Daubert motions on breast cancer causation in the federal Prempro MDL, but not this week. Lawyers for both sides, meanwhile, got an unusual warning from the Little Rock judge presiding over the case that he was getting sick of "Sarcasm by and between counsel."

By David Bario

4 minute read

April 30, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Plaintiffs lawyers at Wolf Haldenstein worked quickly to undo the damage after a San Francisco federal judge ruled last year that iPhone customers must arbitrate antitrust claims against Apple and AT&T Mobility. But it's looking increasingly unlikely that they'll be able to salvage the five-year-old case.

By David Bario

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March 15, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Two former big firm IP litigators were in the spotlight for their plaintiffs-side patent projects this week. Motorola Solutions hit ex-Kirkland partner John Desmarais's Round Rock Research with a declaratory judgment suit, while former Weil Gotshal litigation co-chair Matthew Powers filed his first infringement suit after founding Tensegrity Law Group last year.

By David Bario

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July 23, 2012 | The American Lawyer

For weeks we've been itching to get a look at a letter that, according Gibson Dunn, will unmask Paul Ceglia and his claims to Facebook ownership as a fraud. Now, with sanctions requests against Ceglia and his lawyers already clogging the docket, another court deadline to produce the letter has come and gone.

By David Bario

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June 19, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Class lawyers for settling dairy farmers have asked a federal judge in Tennessee for $55.7 million in fees and expenses for their work on the case against Dean Foods and a marketing co-op; most of that money would cover work performed by lawyers at defunct Howrey LLP who jumped to Baker & Hostetler last year.

By David Bario

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