CSX and its lawyers at Baker Donelson won a ruling in a long-running tax dispute with Alabama. The Eleventh Circuit found that the state discriminated against the railroad company by forcing it to pay a sales tax on diesel fuel while exempting trucking and barge companies.

Two years after a trial court threw out Alcatel-Lucent's record-setting $1.53 billion verdict against Microsoft on posttrial motions, Lucent and its IP lawyer have seen another big verdict against Microsoft evaporate. But only temporarily: The Federal Circuit affirmed Microsoft's indirect infringement and remanded the case for a new trial on damages.

A jury in Brooklyn found that two Chinese manufacturers of Vitamin C conspired to fix prices. The defendants, the first Chinese companies to face civil price-fixing claims on U.S. soil, tried to escape liability by arguing that they simply followed orders from their government.

After several weeks of testimony about the disputed sale of Lehman assets to Barclays, how have the parties fared? We give our scorecard.

Part of the pharmaceutical giant's $1.4 billion settlement will go to the whistle-blowers who first claimed Lilly was improperly marketing the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.

Yep--the 23,000-member group DRI, which calls itself the "voice of the defense bar" warns in a new amicus brief that economic disaster will ensue unless the U.S. Supreme Court reverses certification of the biggest employment discrimination class in history. Fourteen other high court amici seem to feel the same way.