The per curiam ruling says, in essence, that patent plaintiffs aren't fooling anyone when they establish ties to East Texas merely for litigation purposes.

A federal district court ruling that barred the Internet news site from real-time posting of reports by analysts from three banks threatened to shutter the site. Fly's pleas in the lower court fell on deaf ears, but the Second Circuit is at least willing to listen.

As a Delaware judge weighs whether to confirm WMI's proposed plan of reorganization, the key question is whether additional litigation against JPMorgan and the FDIC would produce a better outcome. Opponents of confirmation say trial testimony shows Quinn and WMI didn't push hard enough on potential claims. Quinn says JPMorgan only agreed to settle because of the threat it posed.

Stranded by the Second Circuit's decimation of the Alien Tort Statute, two groups of South African plaintiffs tried to proceed with a bankruptcy court class action claiming GM supported the apartheid regime, or, at least, to keep their tort claims alive until the full circuit decides whether to review corporate ATS liability. A bankruptcy judge blocked both attempts.

The bank and its Shearman & Sterling lawyers wanted a declaratory judgment that BofA's post-Chapter 11 seizure of $500 million from Lehman was okay. Instead it got an order to return the money, plus interest, to Lehman--with possible sanctions against BofA yet to come.

A Fish & Richardson partner was disqualified because his work for Panasonic in past settlement discussions while at another firm made him privy to Panasonic's settlement considerations.

It's been a long three months for jurors in the landmark f-cubed securities class action trial, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel. On Tuesday morning the Lit Daily went to court to check out Vivendi's closing arguments.