Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway chipped away at their significant antitrust exposure on Tuesday, fending off a lawsuit brought by the mining company Oxbow Carbon & Minerals.

The proposed settlement still leaves the country's largest fresh egg producer and its lawyers at Gibson Dunn fighting price-fixing claims from indirect purchasers and opt-out direct action plaintiffs.

A federal judge in Philadelphia allowed class antitrust claims against some of the country's top egg producers to move forward, though she granted motions to dismiss by one producer and an industry trade group.

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The waning days of September brought the end to a slew of big patent cases involving R.J. Reynolds, Freddie Mac, LG, and others, with Verizon alone agreeing to pay more than $500 million to put two separate infringement suits to rest.