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Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices announced Nov. 12 that they have settled all outstanding antitrust and intellectual property disputes between the two companies, with Intel paying $1.25 billion to AMD and AMD and Intel entering into a five-year cross-licensing...

DENVER - An insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify an insured for an underlying legal malpractice suit because the claim against the insured was made before the inception of the policy period, a majority of a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals panel said Nov....

Case: Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. v. Park-Ohio Industries Inc., et al., No. 2009-0104, Ohio Sup. Full story on lexis.com

ST. LOUIS - The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 2 affirmed a jury's $2.75 million compensatory damages award to a woman who claims that her use of Premarin, Prempro and Provera caused her to develop breast cancer and ordered a new trial on her...

NEW YORK - Citing "substantial and meaningful negotiations" and input from the U.S. Department of Justice, two plaintiff subclasses that had objected to Google Inc's "Google Library Project" (GLP) filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three affiliates of Wells Fargo have agreed to buy back $1.4 billion in failed auction-rate securities (ARSs) from investors and pay $600,000 in legal costs as part of a settlement reached with California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown...

NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' negligent failure to properly maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO) was a substantial cause for the fatal breaching of the Reach 2 Levee, causing subsequent catastrophic flooding in the...

BROOKLYN, NY - A New York bankruptcy judge on Oct. 30 denied a trustee's motion seeking a ruling that a debtor had abused the bankruptcy code and said that given the assets available in the bankruptcy estate, the trustee should be able to make a distribution...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Two premises owners owe no duty to a contractors' employee's spouse because the way the contractors went about their work, and not the work itself, created the risk of asbestos exposure for household members, the Iowa Supreme Court held...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Insurer defendants owe a duty to defend an insured against bodily injury claims arising out of the insured's aerial spraying of chemicals, a Delaware judge said Nov. 9, determining that a pollution exclusion does not apply to the insured's...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - In an issue of first impression, the full Maryland Court of Appeals in an Oct. 20 divided opinion in response to a question of law certified by a federal court held that a state insurance statute does not restrict the ability of health insurers...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Wyeth has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari to a case alleging injuries from the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal despite its voluntary dismissal in Georgia, arguing in an Oct. 20 supplemental brief that the respondents...

SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian appeals court on Oct. 19 found that a trial judge erred when he ruled that a former asbestos mining company was partially liable and owed a duty of care to a woman who developed mesothelioma after brief exposure to asbestos...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A unanimous District of Columbia Court of Appeals panel ruled Oct. 29 that product liability claims against cell phone manufacturers and trade groups for devices not certified by the Federal Communications Commission to comply with radio...

LONDON - An English commercial justice on Nov. 11 ruled that Equitas Ltd. may rely on actuarial models to establish the properly recoverable minimum losses under retrocessional excess of loss reinsurance policies involving claims that included the Exxon Valdez...

NEWARK, N.J. - The confirmation order approving G-I Holdings Inc.'s plan of reorganization in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy went into effect Nov. 16 after the plan was approved by the bankruptcy judge on Nov. 12 (In re: G-I Holdings Inc., et al., No. 01-30135,...

TAMPA, Fla. - The certified class of St. Petersburg, Fla., residents with claims for diminution of property value against Raytheon Co. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida filed a motion Oct. 5 for approval of a class member notification...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - There is no legal basis for treating processes differently from other categories of patentable subject matter, an attorney for inventors Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 9 (Bernard L. Bilski, et...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - When considering the registrability of a mark including a ".com" suffix, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board may consider the prevalence of the same term in the Web site addresses of others who provide the same services, the Federal Circuit...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The Texas federal district court judge overseeing ASARCO LLC's Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov. 13 approved the plan of reorganization proposed by ASARCO's parent (In re: ASARCO LLC, et al., No. 09-177, S.D. Texas). Full story on lexis.com...