Scott Flaherty

January 12, 2015 | Litigation Daily

Siding with Quinn Emanuel and reversing his own prior ruling, a judge breathed new life into a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and EMC Mortgage over $500 million in mortgages that now-defunct Bear Stearns bundled into securities and sold to investors.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

January 12, 2015 | Litigation Daily

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider whether the National Credit Union Administration waited too long to sue over billions of dollars in allegedly shoddy securities. But questions underlying the banks' challenge still may not be fully resolved.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

January 12, 2015 | Litigation Daily

Siding with Quinn Emanuel and reversing his own prior ruling, a judge breathed new life into a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and EMC Mortgage over $500 million in mortgages that now-defunct Bear Stearns bundled into securities and sold to investors.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

January 12, 2015 | Litigation Daily

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider whether the National Credit Union Administration waited too long to sue over billions of dollars in allegedly shoddy securities. But questions underlying the banks' challenge still may not be fully resolved.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

January 09, 2015 | Law.com

The bank agreed to pay about $500 million to resolve class action claims stemming from Bear Stearns' sale of nearly $17.6 billion of the securities prior to the 2008 financial crisis.

By Scott Flaherty

2 minute read

January 08, 2015 | Litigation Daily

Siding with Abrams, a Delaware judge refused to foist new rules on hedge funds using a strategy called appraisal arbitrage to squeeze profits out of allegedly undervalued M&A deals.

By Scott Flaherty

4 minute read

January 07, 2015 | Litigation Daily

Lawyers at Latham & Watkins representing Symantec Corp. can't refer to Intellectual Ventures as a "troll" or bash the USPTO for issuing bad patents when a scheduled trial gets underway later this month, a Delaware judge has ruled.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

January 07, 2015 | Litigation Daily

Lawyers at Latham & Watkins representing Symantec Corp. can't refer to Intellectual Ventures as a "troll" or bash the USPTO for issuing bad patents when a scheduled trial gets underway later this month, a Delaware judge has ruled.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

January 07, 2015 | Litigation Daily

After Covington & Burling derailed efforts to hold Chiquita Brands International liable for facilitating war crimes in Colombia, human rights lawyers have turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of resurrecting their claims under the beleaguered Alien Tort Statute.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read

January 07, 2015 | Litigation Daily

After Covington & Burling derailed efforts to hold Chiquita Brands International liable for facilitating war crimes in Colombia, human rights lawyers have turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of resurrecting their claims under the beleaguered Alien Tort Statute.

By Scott Flaherty

3 minute read