Deutsche Bank and Citigroup agreed to pay up rather than join Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, and JPMorgan Chase on the list of banks sued by the National Credit Union Administration and its lawyers at Korein Tillery and Kellogg Huber.

In a consolidated case involving 87 antitrust suits against candy manufacturers, a federal district court judge in Harrisburg, Pa., has certified an appeal of his March 4 refusal to dismiss plaintiffs' claims of collusion and price-fixing.

The dispute over the image of Barack Obama in the iconic "Hope" poster is getting nastier. The Associated Press claims the artist routinely appropriates the work of others; the artist says the AP is selling unlicensed images of other artists' work.

The plaintiffs lawyers, led by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, had asked for $790,000 for getting additional disclosures for shareholders in a failed tender offer. Wrote Delaware vice-chancellor J. Travis Laster: "Plaintiffs never engaged in meaningful litigation activity." But they still got $75,000.