Manhattan federal district court judge Lewis Kaplan is tossing out Lehman cases as if they were old shoes. Last week it was the ratings agency case; this week it's an ERISA class action.

Fred Bartlit Jr. told us he fully expected the Second Circuit to deny en banc review of an earlier appellate ruling blessing a pay-to-delay deal involving his client, Bayer. For one thing, the court never asked the defendants to file briefs.

Thanks to a White & Case Freedom of Information Act suit against DOJ, we can now see 100 (redacted) amnesty deals. But whether that's a good thing is a matter of opinion.

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.

For the second time in less than a week, a Delaware Chancery Court judge had harsh words for a CEO seeking to sell his company in a multibillion-dollar deal, but stopped short of blocking the proposed sale.