The deal averts a new trial in the trade secrets case that produced a $112 million verdict against A10.

Following Google's $5 million patent trial loss last month to Bedrock Computer Technology, it took a jury in the same Tyler, Texas courtroom just 40 minutes to reach a verdict of non-infringement on Tuesday in Bedrock's case against Yahoo over the same patent.

Patent attorneys are celebrating a first-in-the-nation settlement reached by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson that essentially kicks a Texas patent "troll" out of the state.

The Sixth Circuit stuck with four other circuit courts in holding that ERISA protects managers who invest employee funds in a company's stock so long as they do so prudently. But in a victory for lead plaintiffs counsel at Scott + Scott and the Department of Labor, the panel departed from at least two circuits in concluding that the standard doesn't apply at the motion to dismiss stage.

We can't remember the last time a defendant won a motion to dismiss a class action in multidistrict litigation, so we took note of a decision last week by Los Angeles federal district court judge Philip Gutierrez in a case against the pharmaceutical giant Amgen and two dialysis service providers, DaVita and Fresenius Medical Care North America. The plaintiffs, seven health benefit plans, claimed in a class action that Amgen and the others conspired to promote off-label uses of two Amgen drugs, violating the federal RICO statute and California consumer fraud laws.

After opting out of a class action that produced a $20 million jury verdict and allowed 173 Texas municipalities to collect occupancy taxes from online travel companies, the city of Houston and its lead lawyer at McGuireWoods were dealt a potentially fatal blow Tuesday in their go-it-alone suit against 11 of the top booking sites.