Not only was a high-stakes case against Panasonic, Toshiba, and SanDisk dismissed with prejudice, but the judge rejected an interpretation of time limits for antitrust claims that spelled trouble for defendants in other consumer class actions.

In the lastest chapter in the bitter feud between onetime partners Huawei and Motorola, a Chicago judge took less than a day to bar Motorola from disclosing confidential Huawei information to Nokia Siemens in the planned $1.2 billion transfer of Motorola's wireless networking business.

A onetime pharmaceutical salesman represented by Jan Schlictmann alleges that the Ortho Biotech unit of Johnson & Johnson engaged in a Medicare kickback scheme that cost the government as much as $10 billion. But when the salesman appealed the dismissal of his claims, the Justice Department sided with Ortho Biotech and argued against the case's reinstatement. Now that the case has been revived, Schlictmann says it's time for the government to join forces with his whistle-blower client.

A bench trial against Wells Fargo that begins Monday in San Francisco federal district court could determine the course of the mega-litigation claiming banks owe customers hundreds of millions of dollars for improper overdraft fees.

In its infringement suit against three competitors, Fujitsu hoped to have some of the same magic in Judge Lucy Koh's courtroom that Apple enjoyed against Samsung. But after a two-week trial, jurors quickly rejected Fujitsu's claims.