And Quinn Emanuel (again) is on the winning side for Google. Yahoo! was represented by Howrey.

A California appellate court found that a group of retail pharmacies failed to show that pharmaceutical companies conspired to charge higher prices on their products in the United States compared to prices they charged in Canada.

It's been a tough slog through the courts for a group of pharmacy plaintiffs with antitrust claims against some of the biggest drug companies in the land. Plaintiffs lawyer Joseph Alioto stuck with the case for nearly a decade, including through two trips to the California Supreme Court. Now he's finally run out of appeals.

It's been a couple of weeks since we first reported on accounts of the biggest-ever settlement of a subprime-related securities class action, between the defendant Countrywide and New York pension fund lead plaintiffs. Now the parties have confirmed the deal--and it turns out KPMG is aboard as well.

A federal judge tossed claims by Footbridge Limited Trust and OHP Opportunity Limited Trust, ruling that the Quinn Emanuel clients didn't prove intent to deceive.

Anadarko, which acquired Kerr-McGee in 2006, agreed to settle shareholder claims over Kerr-McGee's spin-off of the chemical company Tronox. Under the terms of the deal, Ernst & Young will pay an additional $2 million to resolve claims that it ignored red flags while auditing Kerr-McGee's books.

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15919BRUCE R. TALLEY, Plaintiff, Respondent and Appellant, v. VALUATION COUNSELORS GROUP,