Jan Wolfe

September 09, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Delaware judges aren't exactly known for ceding jurisdiction to other states, especially in shareholder disputes. But a chancery judge ruled that forum selection bylaws are valid even if they're adopted in anticipation of litigation, and even if they designate a Delaware company's out-of-state home turf as the forum.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read

September 08, 2014 | Litigation Daily

After a judge tossed a $283 million damages award they won against rival Space Systems/Loral, the satellite design company ViaSat and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel have opted to cut a deal rather than face another jury.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 08, 2014 | Law.com

Despite some regrettably worded internal communications it produced during discovery, Xerox Corporation has finally killed off a class action alleging it overstated the cost-saving benefits of its big corporate reorganization in 1998.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 08, 2014 | International Edition

As opposition to Google's settlement with the European Commission rises, Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia says he will revisit the agreement struck in February.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 07, 2014 | Litigation Daily

In a setback for the American Psychological Association and its lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, an appeals court has revived an unusual class action alleging that the APA duped psychologists into paying extra annual fees to support its lobbying wing.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 05, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The United States Polo Association scored a win in its endless trademark fight with Ralph Lauren Corporation, persuading a judge to compel arbitration of claims that it breached a decade-old truce with RLC.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 04, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Placitella and Pollock persuaded an appeals court to revive fraud claims against BASF Corporation and Cahill Gordon—and to affirm that the litigation privilege isn't a license to deceive the courts.

By Jan Wolfe

5 minute read

September 03, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Mayer Brown's Stephen Baskin represented five of the nine airlines named as defendants in the case: American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Frontier Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 03, 2014 | Litigation Daily

When it comes to fighting the infamous patent troll MPHJ Technology Investments, Nebraska attorney general Jon Bruning must envy his counterpart in Vermont, Bill Sorrell.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

September 02, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Adopting an argument that other courts have rejected, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the FDIC waited too long to sue Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse and other banks that sold mortgage-backed securities.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read