To mark the tenth-anniversary of the Arbitration Scorecard, the Litigation Daily will be spotlighting some of the biggest disputes featured in The American Lawyer's survey of international arbitration. In this installment, we look at the $3.4 billion dispute between Occidental Petroleum and the Republic of Ecuador, and the $7.5 billion controversy between Citigroup and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor have fired back at Rambus Inc. in the appeal of their three-month price-fixing trial, arguing that two California judges properly excluded evidence of a co-conspirator's guilty plea agreement.

Brookfield, represented by Jenner & Block, filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York seeking a declaratory judgment that it has no further obligations to AIG and its Financial Products unit.

Apple and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster won another round in their patent battle with Samsung on Tuesday, when an Obama administration official refused to override an ITC order blocking Samsung from importing certain smartphones and tablets into the U.S.

After seeing its $172.5 million award go up in smoke at the Ninth Circuit, Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment hopes to revive its claims that Barbie maker Mattel Inc. stole its trade secrets by sending masquerading employees to toy fairs.

Real Networks argued that Friskit never should have received patents covering technology that allowed users to created playlists of songs on media players. The appellate court agreed.

According to Bank of America, the settlement marks the end of "substantially all" of the bank's exposure to loan buyback claims by Fannie Mae stemming from the subprime mortgage debacle. And since Fannie Mae repurchase demands account for about 44 percent of all MBS investor buyback claims against BofA, the deal goes a long way--but far from all the way--toward resolving the bank's Countrywide hangover.

The wide-ranging patent fight between Apple and Samsung took another unusual turn this week, when Apple's lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr broke the news at the ITC that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Samsung's patent licensing strategies.

Representing the Lehman estate, Jones Day claims Barclays and certain Lehman execs snookered Judge James Peck into approving last year's fire sale of the investment bank's crown-jewel brokerage business. And they're not mincing words in asking him to modify the court order approving the sale. The judge, they say, was offered a record that was "inaccurate due to mistakes, inadvertence, or misrepresentations to the court."