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.

Thanks to lawyers for Volterra at Farella Braun & Martel, German chipmaker Infineon may not be able to manufacture or sell products that allegedly infringe on Volterra patents for power products until the case is resolved.

Should companies like Expedia and Travelocity pay municipal taxes on the wholesale cost of hotel rooms--or on the price they eventually resell the rooms for? A Texas jury concluded the latter, and hit the travel services with a $20 million tax bill.

Who knew the dairy business could provoke so many antitrust class actions? The appointment of Wolf and Lovells leaves at least two other plaintiffs firms out in the cold.

In a David v. Goliath trademark infringement case, a company called Marcel Fashion has beaten back an aggressive challenge by Liz Claiborne and its Lucky Brands label. "David is kicking ass," is how Marcel's McCool Smith lawyer sums up the litigation.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday awarded Lanny Davis's lobbying and crisis management firm nearly $160,000 for unpaid expenses incurred while working for the government of Equatorial Guinea.