Move over, Federal Circuit--there's a new patent sheriff in town. On Friday the Ninth Circuit emphatically rejected Motorola's bid to enforce a German court's patent infringement ruling against Microsoft Corp.

The news for Stanford was bad at the district court level, where its patents on quantifying HIV levels in the blood were deemed invalid. On appeal, things got even worse.

Lawyers for Lehman's estate said at a hearing that Barclays never told the court that it walked away with an $11 billion gain on its purchase of Lehman assets.

The latest trend in Alien Tort Statute litigation is to forgo it. As federal courts cut off claims by ATS plaintiffs, they're more and more likely to turn to state courts with common law tort suits.

Representing Lehman Brothers in its bankruptcy proceedings, Rothman won a ruling in which Bank of America was castigated and forced to give back $500 million that it had seized from Lehman.

After eight years of litigation and two nine-figure jury awards, the celebrated trade secret litigation between Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment over Bratz dolls may be back to square one.

The stage is now set for a three-way showdown in the Argentine bondholder litigation in New York, as the Second Circuit weighs whether to intervene ahead of Argentina's looming deadline to pay its creditors. And given the cast involved from Cleary Gottlieb, Gibson Dunn, and Boies Schiller, we admit we're rooting for the court to raise the curtain.