Microtune gave regulators and auditors the report on Andrews Kurth's internal investigation of its options backdating practices. So executives for a pair of former executives charged by the SEC said they should get to see it as well. And despite Microtune's claims of privilege, a Texas judge agreed.

A British court handed down a ruling in favor of billionaire brothers Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay dismissing a suit brought by well-known Irish real estate developer Patrick McKillen. The decision capped a five-month trial to settle a power struggle over three of London's most famous and expensive hotels.

Paul Ceglia's lawyers keep abandoning his suit against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, in which Ceglia claims a 84 percent stake in the social networking giant. Now he may have lost his most crucial purported evidence as well.