Once again, a federal judge in Philadelphia has clipped the wings of some of the country's largest egg producers hoping to hatch their way out of multidistrict class action litigation over alleged price-fixing for eggs and egg products. And this time the judge got just a few dozen words into her decision before cracking her first chicken joke.

Did you know a lamp could win an Emmy Award. The one at the heart of this infringement case did.

At the urging of Nintendo and its lawyers at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the Federal Circuit issued a mandamus order telling a federal court judge in Texas to transfer a patent infringement case over the Wii video game system out of the state. It's the fourth time in the past year the court has issued such an order to a judge in the Eastern District of Texas.

That didn't take long. A couple of Manhattan federal district court judges overseeing billion-dollar securities cases are already weighing the effect of the Supreme Court's game-changing ruling in Morrison v. NAB.

A federal judge in Philadelphia allowed class antitrust claims against some of the country's top egg producers to move forward, though she granted motions to dismiss by one producer and an industry trade group.

We weren't the only ones struck by Vivendi's Paris gambit aimed at preventing French class members from participating in the company's securities fraud trial in New York. On Tuesday, class counsel for the plaintiffs in New York demanded that Vivendi withdraw the suit.