The U.S. Supreme Court has indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The high court split 5-4 yesterday, with the conservative justices in the majority. Now in its third day, the trial in federal court in San Francisco is over the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage. The presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, had proposed posting recordings of the trial on the court’s Web site after several hours of delay and allowing real-time streaming of the trial for viewing in other federal courthouses in California, New York, Oregon and Washington. – Associated Press

Quinn Adds Co-Chair to Life Sciences Group

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges yesterday said it has hired a partner in New York from Kirkland & Ellis as part of a push into pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent litigation. Peter Armenio will co-chair Quinn’s global life sciences practice, an area that the firm expects “explosive growth going forward,” said Peter Calamari, head of Quinn’s New York office. “This is certainly part of the long-term strategy to build patent litigation in general,” he said. Mr. Armenio, 41, had been a partner at Kirkland since 2000. At Kirkland, he was lead trial counsel in cases involving companies such as Schering-Plough Corp., GlaxoSmithKline, and Tyco Healthcare Group LP. – Nate Raymond

Prosecutors, Dreier Trustees Reach Liquidation Settlement

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