In a dissent to a denial of an en banc review sought by Kimberly-Clark, Judge Pauline Newman accused her colleagues of scrapping the time-tested factors used to weigh requests for preliminary injunctions in patent cases.

After a series of setbacks, the Federal Trade Commission and private challengers to deals that keep generic drugs off the market may have finally gotten a big break.

The plaintiffs in Nicaragua made the same toxic tort claims that were tossed by a California judge who found evidence of a fraud on her court last spring. But the Miami judge's decision not to enforce judgment against Dole and Dow Chemical had to do with serious shortcomings in Nicaragua's courts.

In twin rulings issued on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan dismissed securities fraud claims against financial firms that marketed and managed a $900 million collateralized debt obligation known as Pyxis ABS CDO 2006-1.