Ross Todd

April 26, 2012 | The American Lawyer

On Wednesday lawyers for LG at Munger Tolles and Paul Hastings asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to scrap her plans for a bifurcated May trial in the five-year-old MDL, explaining that with two new settlements last week, LG and Toshiba are the only defendants left. The judge rejected that argument at a hearing on Wednesday, opting to move forward with the trial as planned.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

September 27, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Although plaintiffs pointed to detailed allegations in a February complaint by the DOJ related to S&P's ratings of residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations as new evidence, the court refused to take the "extraordinary" step of resuscitating a twice-dismissed case.

By Ross Todd

2 minute read

April 09, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Kasowitz Benson has had mixed luck lately pressing claims that the hedge fund Magnetar Capital colluded with various banks to to place short bets on complex securities backed by subprime mortgages. The firm's luck was all bad this week in its case against UBS AG.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

November 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

By Ross Todd

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July 31, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis; White & Case; and K&L Gates convinced a federal judge this week to toss claims that Siemens AG and South Korea-based SK Engineering & Construction Co. bribed officials at Petróleos Mexicanos, Mexico's state-owned oil company.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

May 24, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

ActiveVideo's lawyers at Morgan Lewis accuse Verizon of refusing to comply with an injunction in the ongoing patent battle between the two companies.

By By Ross Todd

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October 08, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Orrick notched its second big defense victory in weeks against Bayer and its counsel at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, securing a ruling that Dow AgroSciences doesn't infringe Bayer CropScience patents for herbicide-tolerant soybeans.

By Ross Todd

2 minute read

July 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Latham & Watkins, Weil Gotshal, MoloLamken, and King & Spalding all played roles in fighting New York City's controversial plan to combat obesity, culminating in Tuesday's appellate win for the beverage and restaurant industries and the city's bodegas.

By Ross Todd

2 minute read

May 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

On Wednesday the SEC announced an enforcement action against Shanghai-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu for allegedly running afoul of federal securities laws and violating Sarbanes-Oxley Act rules that require foreign auditors to turn over work papers concerning U.S. issuers.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

October 21, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Major magazine publishers and distributors have spent years unsuccessfully trying to dodge claims that they conspired to drive the magazine wholesaler Anderson News out of business. Now they want to take the offensive against Anderson with antitrust counterclaims of their own.

By Ross Todd

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