There's never a dull moment in the liquid crystal display antitrust MDL in San Francisco, where companies that opted out of recent class settlements continue pursuing their own price-fixing claims. At least one skirmish may be subsiding, however, now that a special master has denied Dell's bid for sanctions in its case against AU Optronics.

Class action plaintiffs lawyers may be tallying up the settlements they've won in the sprawling San Francisco antitrust litigation over flat panel liquid crystal displays, but the fight is still in full swing for the many LCD purchasers, like Dell Inc., that opted out of the class to pursue their own price-fixing claims.