By a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court held that pharmaceutical pay-for-delay deals aren't presumptively illegal under antitrust laws, but the government can still try to make a case that individual settlements are anticompetitive. In other words, the pharma industry will be keeping its lawyers very busy.

Start consoling your child now. Lady Gaga-inspired Bratz dolls, complete with a zombie outfit and a removable head that reveals a bloody stump, may not be on store shelves in time for Christmas.

Electronic Arts has invoked a California law designed to protect citizens' constitutional rights to lash back at rival Zynga in the gamemakers' ongoing legal tussle in federal court. The dispute between the competitors has become increasingly combative since EA sued Zynga for copyright infringement. The latest fusillade came Friday as EA asked a judge to throw out Zynga's counterclaim and award fees and costs under California's anti-SLAPP law.

American International Group was forced through a menacing gauntlet over the last few weeks in its $10.5 billion mortgage-backed securities case against Countrywide and Bank of America. But according to AIG and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel, the company emerged late Wednesday with barely a scratch.

Rambus is still paying for its decision to shred reams of documents before it launched a litigation campaign against a big swath of the semiconductor industry. The latest blow came on Friday, when the judge most sympathetic to Rambus over the years ruled that the company spoliated evidence and signaled that he would reduce a $397 million judgment that Rambus won against rival SK Hynix in 2009.