In dismissing a class action suit over Medtronic's 2004 recall of thousands of pacemakers, a Minneapolis federal judge relied on two appellate court preemption rulings involving--you guessed it--Medtronic.

To mark the tenth-anniversary of the Arbitration Scorecard, the Litigation Daily will be spotlighting some of the biggest treaty disputes featured in The American Lawyer's survey of international arbitration. Today, we reveal the biggest dispute under contract arbitration and the biggest under treaty arbitration.

It's been a rough couple of months at the Second Circuit for investors in feeder funds that lost money in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi mega-fraud.