As in a case involving Eminem, which led to a Ninth Circuit ruling last year, these cases brought by Rick James and Rob Zombie turn on the interpretation of contracts written long before iTunes and its like came to dominate the music industry.

As in a case involving Eminem, which led to a Ninth Circuit ruling last year, these cases brought by Rick James and Rob Zombie turn on the interpretation of contracts written long before iTunes and its like came to dominate the music industry.

As in a case involving Eminem, which led to a Ninth Circuit ruling last year, these cases brought by Rick James and Rob Zombie turn on the interpretation of contracts written long before iTunes and its like came to dominate the music industry.

Manhattan federal district court judge Jed Rakoff lived up to his reputation for picking apart SEC settlements with financial institutions on Thursday, when he demanded to know why he should approve the $285 million deal the agency reached with Citigroup last week.

The Federal Circuit reversed a decision snuffing out Star's patents for a supposedly-safer tobacco curing method. But the appellate court refused to order a new trial, agreeing with Brinks Hofer's Ralph Gabric that R.J. Reynolds hadn't infringed

After Lundbeck Inc. bought the rights to the only two drugs used to treat a life-threatening heart condition in low-weight infants, it raised the price thirteen-fold. The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust suit, but lost at trial. On Friday, the Eighth Circuit affirmed, finding that the two drugs weren't in the same market because doctors didn't take price into account when choosing between them.

The Supreme Court's narrow decision in Bilski v. Kappos failed to resolve the hotly contested question of whether "business methods" are patentable. Those hoping for a more forceful ruling than Bilski got their wish on Tuesday, in the form of a Federal Circuit decision that could be used to invalidate both method patents and patents for related software.

The plaintiffs lawyers in the long-ago-settled Vioxx litigation in New Orleans are still waiting for their shares of a $315 million common benefit fund. And they haven't been waiting quietly.

Lawyers from Covington & Burling and Brune & Richard seized on the Supreme Court's ruling as soon as it was issued in June, arguing that it gutted the SEC's case accusing their clients of misleading investors about the risks of Charles Schwab's ill-fated YieldPlus fund.

Another week, another 100-page-plus state court suit over mortgage-backed securities courtesy of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann.