David Bario

March 06, 2012 | Law.com

By David Bario

1 minute read

September 25, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Star's claims that RJR ripped off its supposedly safer method for curing tobacco have been banging around the federal trial and appellate courts for more than a decade without quite hitting their target. Now the two tobacco companies appear finally to have called a truce.

By David Bario

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March 21, 2013 | Law.com

By David Bario

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July 06, 2012 | The American Lawyer

General Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are mired in at least a half-a-dozen patent and antitrust battles around the country. With another win for GE's lawyers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in the wind power war, Mitsubishi seems to be stuck in the doldrums.

By David Bario

4 minute read

August 23, 2012 | The American Lawyer

N.Y. Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten, who's overseeing MBIA's big mortgage-backed securities suit against Countrywide and Bank of America, apparently got fed up with a flurry of letters from lawyers battling over BofA's separate $8.5 billion MBS settlement.

By David Bario

2 minute read

August 14, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The graveyard of auction-rate securities claims against Merrill Lynch got a bit more crowded this week, with two decisions in the space of two days dismissing suits by ARS investors. And judging by an appellate ruling that Foley & Lardner won Tuesday in one of the cases, most Merrill ARS claims are going to stay buried for good.

By David Bario

4 minute read

February 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Believe it or not, sugar beets account for big chunk of the 70 pounds of sugar the average American consumes in a year. Our national sweet tooth was imperiled by a December injunction ordering farmers to pull up genetically modified seedlings for fear they'd contaminate their organic cousins. But now dentists can rest assured there will be no decline in the cavity-filling business.

By David Bario

4 minute read

August 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The New Yorker has had its hands full lately dealing with the the journalistic foibles of staff writer Jonah Lehrer, who resigned in disgrace last month. Now the magazine and its publisher, Condé Nast, have another problem: a defamation suit over a 2010 profile of the art restorer and authentication consultant Peter Paul Biro.

By David Bario

2 minute read

May 22, 2012 | The American Lawyer

A consolidated antitrust class action against four Chinese vitamin C makers case got smaller--but no less interesting--when one of the defendants agreed to a $10.5 million settlement. "This is the first shoe to drop in a Chinese cartel case, and it's a $10 million shoe," said William Isaacson of Boies Schiller, co-lead counsel for the direct purchaser class.

By David Bario

4 minute read

February 11, 2011 | National Law Journal

A federal judge in Chicago this week rejected a motion by CSL Ltd., Baxter International Inc. and an industry trade group to dismiss allegations that the companies conspired to fix prices and reduce the supply of life-saving blood plasma therapies.

By David Bario

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