Weitz & Luxenberg's Paul Pennock kept telling us that momentum in the Seroquel litigation was going to shift to the plaintiffs, who've filed tens of thousands of suits claiming the AstraZeneca antipsychotic causes diabetes. With two state court trials finally teed up, he may be right.

On Friday an International Trade Commission judge held that Apple did not infringe four patents held by Nokia. Apple's rival had raised these claims of infringement in an effort to get the iPhone, as well as the iPad and iPod, banned from the United States market.

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.

The Department of Justice, under pressure to mete out blame for the credit crisis, has wrapped up a deferred prosecution agreement with Beazer Homes USA.